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HD-DVD and Paal Visit
Today was a fantastic day. Paal flew in to Minneapolis yesterday afternoon so I ducked out of work early to meet him at home. I recently bought a HD-DVD player so we geeked out watching the movie Serenity. The night was also full of lots of Guitar Hero, eating, drinking…
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NetBackup Box
Pretty cool. They gave everyone who worked on the new NetBackup 6.5 release an official box with the DVD’s. I’m pretty sure most people just download the ISO from our servers but having a physical copy of it is really neat.
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HP Work Trip
I spent the last week in Houston visiting HP for work. Two other engineers and my manager came down early Tuesday morning on a flight that carried U.S. Senator Norm Coleman no less. I was even surprised to see Norm flies coach, not first class! My manager, Lynn, could only…
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Starting My MBA
I finished my first MBA class last night – accounting! It wasn’t the most interesting class I’ve ever taken but I learned a lot of very different things compared to my Computer Science courses at U of M. The summer between sophomore and junior year of college, when we played…
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24 Hours Through Flickr
I joined the 24 Hours of Flickr group a few weeks back and this Saturday I took pictures of what I did through out the day along with a bunch of other photographers. It was fun to do and I thought I’d post the pictures here with the story behind…
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Mounting Dell Monitor to the Wall
A few weekends ago I mounted my Dell E228WFP 22″LCD monitor on the wall. My desk seems even more gargantuan than before and by keeping it at eye level I’m not hunched over it when studying or working. I feel like all that ergonomic stuff that I never cared for…
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Today Will Rock
Literally. This morning I woke up early so I could buy Lollapalooza tickets right when they went on sale. Pat had been suggesting the idea when he and Dave came to visit a few weeks ago and with Pearl Jam announcing their headlining yesterday I couldn’t think of a more…
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New Dell 22″ Monitor
I’m posting twice today since I just ordered a new 22″ Dell monitor. I’ve been waiting for it to dip below $300 like it had a few weeks ago and that happened again this afternoon. I really liked my 18″ NEC monitor that I had all through college but after 6…
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I Still Love My iPod
I’ll never forget the faithful day in 2002 that I lost my portable CD player in college (with Chris’s Manplanet album inside) and bought my first iPod. I love the iPod. My favorite thing about listening to it all day is when it gets on a random shuffle of good…
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Washington State Vacation
I’m wrapping up my vacation to the Pacific Northwest today which has been very relaxing. I flew to Spokane last Friday which was a bit of an endeavor with all the snow but I’ve had all week to stay up late and sleep in. The weekend and first half of…
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Most Memorable Albums
This post is about some of the albums and songs that have burrowed into my memory for whatever reason and bring me back to a specific point in my past. It’s by no means a list of my favorites. They just happen to be buried in my memory for whatever…
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Japanese Electronics
Yesterday at work we had two engineers from NEC fly over from Japan to install a new storage product for testing with NetBackup. I’ve worked with NEC in the past through email but this was my first direct interaction with them in person. They were super nice and got everything…
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Beta Testing Time
This past Friday marked a big milestone at work in our upcoming NetBackup 6.5 release as we posted a Beta version for customers to start using. A few weeks ago I volunteered to help our program management team with the Beta program which has been a really good experience. I’ve…
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A Weekend in the City
Anyone who has talked to me about music in the last year knows by now that I love Bloc Party. I came on to the scene a little late after getting into their first album “Silent Alarm” only after it was remixed a billion times. That probably makes me incredibly…
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Noah K Everyday
I just found out about this project called Noah K Everyday. This photographer, Noah, has taken a self portrait style picture of himself every day for the last 6 years. He plans to keep doing this until he dies. A few months ago he took all the pictures he had…
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A Good Gopher Sports Team
After living in Minnesota for over 5 years I had never been to a Gopher Hockey game until Saturday night. My friend Jim had an extra season ticket that was free so I got to see the Denver vs Minnesota game. I’ve gone to lots of Gopher games – we…
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The iPhone
Not that the world needs more commentary on this but I am so excited for the Apple iPhone. I used to read a Tom Clancy book series called “Net Force” when I was younger – they ended up even making a pretty terrible movie out it. But in the series…
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Powered by WordPress
Today is the faithful day I pull the plug on Blogger and move to WordPress. The recent Blogger update pretty much destroyed all my custom UI design I had done. And I couldn’t use any of the new Blogger features without their pre-built templates. So I started learning WordPress a…
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Cleaning Up at Poker Night
Last night I went to Jim’s to play poker. We played 2 games, the first of which I lasted maybe halfway through – nothing special. The second though was the most bizarre stroke of luck I’ve ever had while playing cards. We went from 6 to 4 people at the…
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Xbox Live
For Christmas I got an Xbox 360 so I’m joining the modern world of online gaming. My gamer tag is zeke239 and I have no friends right now so befriend me! Or let me know your gamer tag so I can have some friends. I picked up Gears of War…