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It looks as if I have fallen out of practice of updating my blog over the past few months.
So very quickly here’s what has been happening in my life:

It was a hard decision to make, but I parted ways with Backblaze in January. Brian and crew are still going strong and I wish them nothing [...]

We have Jeremy to thank for our stop in Lake Como. The latest Bond film has a scene where 007 is housed up in a super swank hotel overlooking the lake. I’m not sure if it was the beauty of the location that caught Jeremy’s eye or Daniel Craig on the beach. Either way Lake [...]

Wow how time flies. 3 weeks ago today I was in panic mode scrambling to find homes for anything I owned that didn’t fit into my storage space. I was successful with a good portion of it, but in the end there was car load of crap which I ended up driving down to the [...]

Yes that’s right today is officially my first day of unemployment. I concluded my consulting gig with Mailfrontier / Sonicwall on Friday and feel I have left them in good hands with the product.
What’s next? Well I am going to get some serious traveling under my belt and begin working on my own projects. A [...]

Don’t you always hate it when you get down to your last pair of drawers? Currently, I’m well beyond that point. So today is officially laundry day! I dread this day with a passion, first I have to pick up all my clothes off the floor, slam them into the laundry bags, [...]

It’s amazing how quickly 5 years can go by. Today was my last day working for Virage, Inc., and I have to say it was a pretty decent experience. A lot has happened over that period of time; went though our IPO, struck by the down turn of the market and had to [...]

Every year Nicole is asking me what I want to do for my birthday, the answer normally goes something like, “Ahh, I don’t care we can just go out for dinner or something…” This is exactly what we did on Tuesday. Which by the way was excellent! I highly recommend the Slanted [...]

After watching all of the pain Christopher has been going though since his 30th, I was sort of worried for my own health. But, I have to tell you I don’t feel much different that I did last year at this time. Well yes, if I didn’t have to go to work today [...]

Too bad my game wasn’t there. The round was played at the Presideo Golf Course, which is conveniently located 5 or 6 blocks from my apartment.
Great course, just a little too hard for someone who’s only been out twice in the past 3 months. The best part for me was the [...]

Excellent show! It opened up with Operasperry, a collection of musicians Matthew had worked with over the years. The music is a rather bizarre free form improvisation. It’s wild how alien the sounds can be made from conventional instruments. The best part was watching people’s faces who bought tickets to primarily [...]