/**/ This past weekend was all about exploring a city. Vancouver was the chosen destination, even though I’ve been there so many times. It was about good food, music, walks, absorbing the city vibe, conversation, etc. (Oh… and a lot of book work as well). (Walking around Stanley Park… Beaver …
My first exposure to Unix came around 1992-93 when a contractor at my department at the time gave me remote access (via my 2,400bps modem) to his Sun workstation at his office so I could “play around”. I remember how within mins of getting access I was able to crash …
/**/ I spent this past weekend at Shi Shi beach, over at the Olympic Peninsula. Cris and I have been discussing a camping trip together for some time now. (Location of Shi Shi beach) (Driving past Lake Crescent on the way… don’t ask who took the photograph from the driver’s …
/**/ I don’t often blog about many of the things I do in Seattle in the evenings (well, with the exception of concerts sometimes :-) but last night requires a special entry. Cindy (blog) took me to Seattle’s “A Contemporary Theatre” for a production of “Das Bardecu”, a comic adaptation …
I just noticed a beautiful video about Microsoft’s External Research (my previous group). A great view at very high-level of what the team is doing. I had the honor/pleasure of working with some of the folks in the video. Although I have stayed in touch with everyone in External Research, …
I enjoyed reading Ian’s analysis on how to interpret “faster” when it comes to comparing infrastructure-as-a-service and a supercomputer. Snippet: For example, let’s say we want to run the LU benchmark, which (based on the numbers in Ed’s paper) when run on 32 processors takes ~25 secs on the supercomputer …
/**/ … Phew… what a fun weekend that was! I had such a good time even though i am now suffering the consequences (more on that later). I seriously needed the time to switch off. The weekend was totally packed but I still had time to contemplate a work-related decision. …