Great Mother's Day party and 16th Bday!
It was a great Mother's Day, we had friends over and did a great BBQ for all to enjoy.
My daughter (13 years old) cooked 5 dishes, including 3 pasta dishes (one orzo, one with small shell paster, and one with rigatoni), roasted potatoes, fried raviolis, and more. I don't think there was one disappointed Mother at our house (or Fathers).
In additional Celina Nanbara who's birthday is 05/11, and Jun baked this wonderful cream strawberry cake:
I also BBQ'd a couple racks of spareribs cut St. Louis style, with miso sauce on them, and a load of flap steak, one pack I had got and one the neighbors brought over. We had a bunch of Japanese dishes brought over by company also, it was a great time for all. Thanks so much to all who come over to celebrate Mother's Day and Celina's Bday!
Posted at 11:22PM May 11, 2009 by aland in General | Comments[69]
Congratulations Ai-Chan, Certificate of Merit level 5 on piano!
Congrats to my daughter, Ai, for passing her level 5 of Certificate of Merit on piano.
My wife made this lemon custard tart for her!
(click on picture for high resolution)
Posted at 10:43PM Apr 04, 2009 by aland in Music | Comments[11]
Those without dreams never have dreams come true...proud parents!
Yesterday my son received notice that he was accepted into UCLA to major in Design / Media Art, and all I can say is that both me and my wife are 2 very proud parents. To get accepted into UCLA is very difficult, and has become one of the more difficult schools to get accepted to. This year is rumored to have only accepted 8% of the 55,000 applicants.
My son was 1 of 30 students to be accepted to the Design Art Program, and he is very excited that his hard work has paid off. For a high school student, this is like hitting the lotto.
I am so proud of you Son, and I know that Mom is also. Congratulations! :-)
The Omoris brought these baloons over for my son, thanks so much Keiko, Keith, Masashi, and Nao!
Here's a picture of a tart my wife made for my son!
Here's a picture of Jason as he finished up the CMEA performance which Lynbrook got SUPERIOR marks straight across the board! Now that's what we're talking about Doc Felder! Yeah!
Posted at 10:47PM Mar 19, 2009 by aland in General | Comments[1]
libhttp updated to 1.2 in Downloads
I received a patch for libhttp, a small http library I wrote about 7 or 8 years ago, my how time flies by.
Jesper Nielsen from Denmark sent a patch and the latest version, 1.2, it's available on the main website in the Downloads directory, or directly from this link.
This is what makes open source software work.
Thanks Jesper!
Posted at 12:35AM Mar 12, 2009 by aland in General | Comments[6]
AMD gets a new Chairman!
I was reading that Bruce Claflin is the new Chairman of AMD.
It was Bruce Claflin that took over the helm at 3Com just prior to the Kerbango project being shelved...somehow this doesn't seem good for AMD, but who am I to say...I'm not working and he's the Charman of AMD...I guess he's got a leg up on me...:-/Posted at 12:03AM Mar 06, 2009 by aland in General | Comments[1]
Times change, and people do too!
I worked at Sun Microsystems for the past (close to) 6 years, and it was a great place to work. I went to Sun in response to a bad choice they made to try and end of life Solaris on x86. During the time I was there, I saw Sun make a massive shift to support the Solaris operating system on x86/AMD64 architectures. Enough that I would say it would appear to be one of their long term strategies.
Now it is time to move on, time to find something new to do, and I have my eyes focused on Embedded Linux as the target for future work. Prior to joining Sun Microsystems it was quite a tough time in Silicon Valley, and I certainly shared some of those hardships. I also felt very fortunate that Sun gave me a position working for them at one of the worst times in Silicon Valley, the dot-bomb really took a toll on all of us, as many of you know that are here and experienced it first hand. OTOH, the rise of the bubble was one of the most incredible rides and a milestone in history for the high tech. Alas, my position was alleviated with the 6000 employee reduction in force at Sun on January 22, 2009. I enjoyed my time there, and have many great experiences at Sun.
At the tail end of the dot-bomb, I was working on one of the first Embedded Linux projects, the Kerbango Internet Radio. I wrote all the communications for the radio, handled the authentication of the radio to connect to the tuning service, and worked on some of the system, along with some device driver work. This project was without a doubt one of the greatest projects I had worked on, and Embedded Linux has grown quite a bit since.
Here's a picture of the Kerbango Internet Radio.
Some things we can't explain, and how we get to where we are going is for each of us to figure out. Who knows what the future will bring. I want to stay in Silicon Valley, I can't imagine leaving, certainly not before I can get my daughter through high school which she will start next year. Embedded Linux is without a doubt one of the healthiest sectors of the high tech industry. In fact, I would venture to say that Linux is tossing the embedded space on it's head, and more and more companies continue to gyrate towards using it in their products.
Having been in the high tech industry for more than 25 years, one thing I have learned is that you can never know what to expect. I am not clear what I will do, but I am glad I have some experience in developing on Embedded Linux. I gave a presentation last August for the Peninsula Linux User Group and you can get the presentation here in PDF format, if you have interest. The presentation was about Embedded Linux and the Kerbango Internet Radio.
If you know of an interesting project using Embedded Linux, feel free to pass my name along!
Posted at 08:30PM Mar 03, 2009 by aland in General | Comments[16]