Baron von Luxxury is an old co-worker of mine from the Red Hat days selling ads for redhat.com. Check out the cute kitty in the youtube vid above.
I can't forget the time we accidentally ran run-of-network ads and you found banner ads for Dennys and some online Hair-Net website running next to Linux content.
Or the wonderful partnership with Keen.com to provide amateur linux support over the phone. I hear that they're mostly psychics and phone sex these days.
In any case check out Luxxury when you can get the chance. They play all over the Bay Area at times.
Luxxury - "Sweet and Vicious"
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BayXP next Wednesday
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Been pretty busy lately. However I did manage to get Hi5 to host a meeting of BayXP. So come on down and enjoy some pizza, learn something about Agile methodologies and see where Hi5 lives and breathes!
February 28: Slava Imeshev, Continuous Integration: Benefits, Challenges, and Best Practices, at Hi5 Networks6
Slava Imeshev is the founder and CTO of Viewtier Systems, the software build management company. Slava has over 15 years of experience as a software engineer, an architect and a technology executive. Being an XP adept since its inception, Slava promotes practices of Continuous Integration and Agile software build management. You can reach Slava at vimeshev@viewtier.com.
When:
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
7:00pm to 9:00pm
(pizza and socializing at 6:30pm)Where:
Hi5 Networks
455 Market Street, Suite 910
San Francisco, CA 94105http://www.hi5networks.com/contact.html
Abstract:
Software is a risky business. Most of the software projects fail because they miss deadlines, cannot stay in budget, or are unable to meet the requirements. Breakage of the code base cause delays and overspending that increases risks of project failure.Continuous integration helps reduce risks of such project failures. In this talk we'll understand importance of a software build, introduce Continuous Integration and benefits it provides, discuss ways to avoid challenges associated with bringing it into a software organization and give tips on how to get most from this useful practice.
Getting Things Done with Thinking Rock
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So about 2 months ago I took the plunge and reorganized my time management around in the form of David Allen's Getting Things Done. I had seen the 43 Folders blog way back when, and I had toyed with the idea, but I was so mired in work not to mention the 1200 messages in my inbox find time to make a lasting change.
Well, I finally did it and oh boy does it feel good. All inboxes down to single digits, a consolidated todo list with context and other information, and squeezing in all those little tasks that used to stress me out.
The best part of this, and probably the only reason I was successful was some insanely great software called Thinking Rock. It's a cross-platform Java App that implements GTD to the letter. It's so much better than shoehorning GTD concepts into Outlook or Palm, which aren't really set up for them.
The best thing is there are no priorities in this system. You only care about Context (where you do something) and what the next action is for a given project. It really helps me stay on top of things and keep my head clear. Plus it exposed me to pocketmods, which are foldup sheets of paper that substitute for a PDA. So now I've got my little scraps of paper to carry around, and all my thinking rock software on a USB key and I'm very happy.
I just wish I had taken the plunge into GTD years and years ago. (Of course if I could time travel I'd send this software along with a pallet of Red Bull to myself in college :)
Speaking of midwest college days -- the Thinking Rock name does remind me of a certain beer flavored water:
Sock Puppets
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Even better than the "Hatch Eats Kittens" ad Patty Posted: Sock Puppet ads for District 6 in San Francisco!
Beware the Falcon
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If you're lucky you might spot a peregrine falcon in South Park. Sadly the camera-phone doesn't have a zoom so this stock photo will have to suffice.
After getting out of our car to walk Tommy someone was pointing behind us. There he was, sitting in a nest, with a stream of feathers from his early morning breakfast littered below. About 10 yards away a dead rat sat in the street -- desert?