So the rest of the photos from the trip are now posted to my flickr account after many tedious hours of careful editing (thanks to The Gimp) to remove the dots/speckles that the dust left on all of my desert photos. That was quite the trip, 1,980 miles total. Lots of weird stuff in Nevada, [...]
I’m back from the Coachella/Mexico Border/Nevada/Death Valley run. So far I’ve only gone through my Coachella pictures. The Nevada/DV photos got messed up do to dust in my lens but I am going to try and salvage them. I’ll post them soon hopefully. For now, view the Coachella photos on my flickr account. Lucent Dossier [...]
It’s time for the annual cleansing in the California and Nevada deserts. I will be leaving for Coachella late Tuesday or early Wednesday and will camp on site for the three day festival. After the music stops, I will head down to the California/Mexico border and take the 8 to the 95 up through Nevada, [...]
If you haven’t already, donate to the Obama campaign. Every penny counts, donate as little or as much as you can. He hasn’t taken any money from lobbyists or special interests, only individual people donating in small contributions. He just passed 1,000,000 donations a couple of days ago, far surpassing any other campaign, with over [...]
I just got back from San Francisco (for a business trip). I went to a Microsoft Hosting 2008 Server workshop at their new office in the city. It was boring. But I had a great time wondering the streets until the wee hours of the morning. I ended up talking to this guy for a [...]
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We had our end of the year party at Novo in SLO this year. It was nice just to relax with everyone while not staring at a computer screen. Photo set here.
Just doing some quick analysis in my head: bulk-smtp yesterday: ~1,800 messages to yahoo ~18,000 messages total ~95.4% took < 15m to deliver ~67.4% took < 1m to deliver lists-smtp yesterday: ~1,800 messages to yahoo ~6,350 messages total ~23.3% took < 15m to deliver ~1.1% took < 1m to deliver Bulk-smtp was not using queuing, [...]
I just got back from Three Rivers, California, right out side of the Sequoia National Forest. It was a nice time, drove through a snow storm, saw a bear, stayed at a bed and breakfast. It was a good Christmas with the family and now I have to get ready to go to Los Angeles [...]
