Week 1

250, down two pounds. I’ve been walking 5K a day lately between our old and new offices. This weekend will be tough, we’re moving in and setting up servers. The temptation to go out and get crappy food 2 days in a row will be tough.
I’m not exactly denying myself - this week, I did [...]

This doesn’t bode well.

Macadamia. Nut. Coffee.

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‘m working with a vendor setting up my new phone system. Today, they were laying out 2000 feet worth of 4-conductor silver-satin cable and terminating the ends. The smell of the cabling, combined with server room dust, white grease and the odd smell that Northern Telecom hardware has took me back to 1995 when I worked on big phone systems full-time. This was back when phones were king - the internet was just taking off; voice and fax were the primary way of contacting someone. My job was very high-visibility - cost-savings could be huge, since long distance service cost an arm and a leg, and toll fraud was a serious ongoing concern. Every monday morning, you could come in to find someone had hacked your system and routed thousands of dollars worth of calls through it![1].

What a year!

1968 was quite a year for technology inflection points — makes me wish I was born a little earlier:The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled MCI could compete with AT&T using microwave transport on the Chicago to St. Louis route. The same year, the FCC’s Carterfone decision forced AT&T to allow customers to attach non-Western [...]

glurf

I got called in to work today; two high-visibility systems both had RAID arrays offline. Both systems had been in production for some time and had been working perfectly. Both systems are back in operation now after forcing the RAID elements back online and doing a consistency check. Both systems also happened to have fallen [...]

Too many blogs..

I’ve decided to can my <a href=http://weightloss.kataan.org>weight loss blog</a> and use my LJ account for updates and accountability. You guys will kick me in the ass if I start slipping, right?
Week 1 has been pretty easy so far; I’ve been way stressed out, but stopped myself from getting something sweet as a [...]

Bye bye pixels, hello paper.

zenbikeshop.com has an interesting blogentry called Bye bye pixels, hello paper discussing the whole paper-versus-electronic planners. As a longtime Palm and paper planner user, I found it interesting.
The timing was coincidental - I just bought new filler pages for my planner, and am using my Palm in a reduced role as a glorified Rolodex. [...]