Haystack, MObStor, …

Sigh …

I got these two names by searching online and seems they are great products that can definitely solve some of headache I’m currently facing, however …

Then I found out that they are not open source at all, people just publish those articles for … show up?

Sigh …

.screenrc

This is my .screenrc:

startup_message off
vbell off
split
screen -t s1 1 ssh s1
split -v
focus down
screen -t s2 2 ssh s2
focus down
screen -t s3 3 ssh s3
split -v
focus down
screen -t s4 4 ssh s4
focus top

And you can see the screen shot at right.

This is exactly what I want.

Finally, the PowerBook crashed

The PowerBook I got 4 years ago finally stopped working – it crashes every 5 minute.

Is it time to get a new Mac machine? iMac? MacBook?

First 1-on-1 in the past 2 and half months

It was the first 1-on-1 yesterday in the past 2 and half months.

I took vacation in mid Dec, so missed 1st one, then it became xmas so missed 2nd one, then my boss went to vacation so missed the 3rd one, then it was public holiday so 4th one’s gone, then I took another vacation so 5th one, then my boss’ vacation so missed 6th.

Unlucky enough, right?

It’s about time to change

I believe it’s about time to change myself a little bit – it’s all about job/career, etc, but it may affect life as well.

I don’t think this Microsoft deal has any impact on my feeling, and I don’t think current project involved even a little. The Microsoft deal is great, I’m not saying it will bring any solid benefit to my company, but at least it leaves some room for my company to take a pause, re-think the whole strategy, and move on. My current project is kind of interesting – cloud computing is something hot, and data intensive cloud is not being well defined in current cloud/grid world.

I feel like it’s about time to change just because … it seems less people care about me now . I like talking to friends, but slowly friends stopped pinging me for whatever reason, it could be because my life is so boring and nothing could interest them. I’m not getting new friends either, which is because I don’t have relationship with any groups around.

So, it’s about time to change, at least I can make people start talking to/about me again.

Got new laptop

Same Compaq 6910p, but it does not have the blinking problem so that my eyes won’t be hurt too much.

Green or purple

It’s a big day to some of people in the company – it was said some of us will get notice of “you are going to M$)”.

I haven’t got anything and seems I won’t get anything like that, same to other people in my team. The most interesting thing today is, the team sitting beside our cube gathered together (20 or so people) and list all the names on a whiteboard into two columns – one is green M$, and the other is purple. People laughing, discussing, taking photographs, and so on, it seems like a big party.

Well, enjoy, in the coming months groups like this will be split into two, and people who used to work together will then work for different companies.

290 now

Making good progress.

Slowly warming up

I think I had this problem for quite sometime – I’m really slow in warming up.

This happened whenever I moved to a new group or a brand new project, that previous experience doesn’t help me. It seems I’m good at solving problems based on experience, so once experience becomes useless, I’m lost.

I’ve been assigned to current project for months, and I started my “real” work about a month ago, but obviously only till now I can have some real ideas about what the system look like, and what we should do to make it works. I don’t think people like me in previous meetings as most time I was just sitting there listening, not much to present to the team (to help the project). Now the project is about to finish the design phrase, and seems I finally wake up . In the past two or three meetings I think I contribute a lot to the project.

It could be another reason though – I may not be that interested with design stuffs, but once it becomes implementation I got my sense and become willing to do something.

Happy Chinese New Year

To all my friends!