Archive for July, 2004

My Temporary Apartment
Wednesday, July 14th, 2004

So, the company was nice enough to hook me up with a temporary apartment out in California while I wait for my stuff to arrive from NYC. I already have an apartment up in San Francisco, but I figure I may as well stay in the temp apartment until my bed arrives. I feel a [...]

On Quitting Smoking
Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

I’ve now gone 2 days without a cigarette. (Californians don’t smoke, and I needed to quit anyway before I did something foolish like turn 30 with an addictive deadly habit.)
And let me tell you something, kids, it’s not fun. If you don’t smoke now, don’t start. You’ll either have to quit, which is the least [...]

First Day
Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

I’m now about 12 hours into my career at my new job.
And let me tell you — I think I’m home. I mean, not Palo Alto specifically (which is still far scarier than Avenue D could ever be), but with this company. My initial impressions are even better than I had expected.
First off, everyone [...]

Lies And More Lies
Sunday, July 11th, 2004

Let me ask something — at what point does the American voting public actually start reading articles like this one in Newsweek that expose George Bush’s lies for what they were. I mean, Newsweek is a rather popular magazine, with 3.1 million readers in the U.S.. And for each of those 3.1 million people, [...]

Server Migration
Thursday, July 8th, 2004

In a last minute scramble to get everything together before the move tomorrow, I decided it was time to migrate unto.net off of a machine in my apartment and on to a machine in a hosted facility.
After a few hours of research, I chose RackForce. RackForce offered a wide selection of environments, and [...]