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This last week we went up to the Bay Area, both to do a final debrief at Sun and to locate temporary quarters to ease our move. Surprisingly, we accomplished both earlier than we expected, and were able to come home on Thursday. We found a nice three-bedroom apartment, and we expect to move some [...] Talk about heat waves! We had lots of all time highs around here. In La Mesa, where we live, it was 113 today. Oh yeah, we’re having a monsoon, too, so the humidity was 58% instead our our usual 15-20% when we get hot. Naturally, this put all time record stress on the power supplies, [...] It’s all signed and sealed, and I’ve called most of my colleagues whom I wanted to inform personally. I just accepted an offer from MicroSoft to work for them in the Bay Area. They are starting a new operation there with a focus on multi-threading compilers and tools, and it seems like it’s just made to [...] I haven’t had a lot of comments, but all of the ones I’ve had have been positive. The change is now official. ballfam.net is now the new website. There’s still a link to the old one if you want it. I’ll be getting to the help files as soon as I can. See the next [...] I’ve got an all-new (except for the content) version of ballfam.net ready for it’s first outing. For the time being you can find it at http://www.ballfam.net/new. Try it out and see how you like it. Family members should get a login id so you can post things to it. I’ve already created logins for some people [...] This post is in a new category (Web Administration) aimed entirely At family who are interested in the ballfam.net domain. Anyone else reading this can just skip it. I’ve been trying to install a new system to let anyone in the family post to the website, and in particular to post pictures. The system I decided [...] On Sunday, Flo and I took a trip by ourselves down to Southern Indiana and visited a town named Columbus. I never expected what I found. This small town has, over the years, built up the most wonderful collection of architecture that I’ve seen. It seems that whenever they wanted to build a public building [...] Well, it’s been two quiet days, actually. I visited a strange bookstore called “Uplandharma”. They had a good collection of early science fiction from the 50′s and 60′s. There were a couple of kids manning the stores dressed in what can only be called “midwest goth”. You know, sort of a cross between goth and Amish. We [...] This morning the women went to the Quilters Hall of Fame while I stayed and worked on some neglected Sun stuff. I gather that they weren’t terribly excited by the particular exhibit they had up at the time, but the house was really interesting. The weather was hot and humid, so we decided to wait for [...] I just saw an odd link in a friends blog (geoffarnold.com). Here’s a short sample. |
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