Interesting read on AmazonEC2 and OpenVPN

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9915

Talking about merging internal and cloud infrastructures together using OpenVPN.

General blog

haven't post for a while so I should put up some updates... we went through a tough month but finally nobody is sick now. Cyrus is happily back to his child care and growing faster than ever. We were told his height is at 80 percentile, though the weight is at 25 percentile due to the illness he just gone thru. He's much more talkative now and very demanding at times. Seems like he will certainly grow into somebody who knows very well what he wants. Last week as Kristie's breast milk supply started to dwindle, we decided to start a transition plan for Cyrus to change to formula. He refused violently at first, even go without drinking milk for a day. The 3rd day we finally change to another brand and that really helped. He's happily taking 50-60% of formula mixed in now.

What else is new other than the baby? ha, I started to get back to PC gaming again. as incredible as it may sounds, I allocated every Friday night to playing some games. Going through my poor game collections, the oldest game that I haven't played through is Prince of Persia 2 Warrior within from 2004! but I am not crazy about that game much... started from trying to finish Half-life 2 Episode 2 :-) Then I will be onto you, Big daddy in Bioshock (alright alright, I know big sister is coming out in BioShock 2. haven't played any games != haven't been updating myself with game news)

job is going well, so far, I've been able to research and learn quite a bit of programming and technologies stuffs, while my recent promotion gets the paycheck thicker = happy. I have to say I am pretty sick of just doing research all week without any outcome tho. I want to get something out that works!

Anyway, nice time. peace out.

GoogleServe - Volunteering

learned of this cool place in my neighborhood through the Volunteer experience:

Chabot Space and Science Center @ Oakland

http://www.chabotspace.org/

http://picasaweb.google.com/shyamseshadri/GoogleServe09#5345395336410282930

Sick sick sick II

it's been a long month for the family. Since I got since a month ago, baby Cyrus got it from me, and then Kristie got it from the baby, and after a while I recovered a bit, but again catch a slight variance from baby Cyrus. We went to ER 3 times in 3 days two weeks ago, 2 times were for Cyrus hitting a fever @ 104' and once to clear Kristie from the infamous Swine flu...

Anyway, apparently the saga isn't over, and we are not clear from this curse yet... while me and Kristie slowly recovered to almost 100% now, Cyrus was also seem to be doing much better last week... he still cough a bit with mucus and running nose a bit, but he was fine otherwise. Unfortunately, one day after his 9th month checkup (which doctor said he seems like a perfectly healthy 9th month old baby), he spent another weekend with running fever and us pumping him with Tylonol and Moltrin. (and we immediatedly decided to try a different doctor) The previous verdicts from the ER was that one doc said he's got ear infection, the latter said he's got pneumonia (with x-ray). This time, the poor little guy again went through x-ray and also a blood test... now he's said to have Bronchitis and now he's going thru his 3rd round of antibiotic...

I don't believe in any specific god, but I do pray to the spirit that this curse can be over soon, and little Cyrus can go through this without any negative impact to his future health...