http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9915
Talking about merging internal and cloud infrastructures together using OpenVPN.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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.
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.
Monday, June 08, 2009
GoogleServe - Volunteering
learned of this cool place in my neighborhood through the Volunteer experience:
Chabot Space and Science Center @ Oakland
Monday, June 01, 2009
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...
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...
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Monday, May 04, 2009
Sick sick sick
been sick for the past week, slowly recovering from the cold. Doctor said it's not swine flu :-p
but now I got Cyrus into it too... poor little guy coughs and running stuffy nose.. hope he's not coming down with a ear infection.
but now I got Cyrus into it too... poor little guy coughs and running stuffy nose.. hope he's not coming down with a ear infection.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Self-doubting...
Three years ago I posted something on this very blog saying that I decided to give up on learning the coding stuffs that's over my head. Three years later I am still trying to figure out what the heck can I really pick up and be good at. Feeling a bit pathetic, but who says being stubborn isn't the important factor to be successful?
Python, Django, Google Appengine... here I come...
Python, Django, Google Appengine... here I come...
Simpson's got new opening score?!
The new Simpsons' got a nice new opening score, and be sure not to miss the ending score on this one too!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Cyrus' 1st day @ Child care
This is the 1st day for Cyrus being in child care. It was completely unplanned due to me catching a cold, but seem to turn out very well. He was very nice to everyone and didn't complaint much. Way to go little big man.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Mogulus
Testing Mogulus today. Very cool stuff, and here is me and my kid playing. They even have some twitter integration done.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Can I get Imeem+Pandora hybrid?
Imeem is really cool. I get to upload stuffs and share with others (sorta, legally), stream anything, as long as if I can find them, and best of all, the Android app.
But for something I found it hard to actually find a good list of music that fits my taste... the list it comes up with consists of Chinese songs from the 70's and that is before I was borned... and I can't find a way to vote those music down so they won't come to haunt me again. I like the way Pandora makes it easy to do so.
Alas, The perfect music site, where art thou?
But for something I found it hard to actually find a good list of music that fits my taste... the list it comes up with consists of Chinese songs from the 70's and that is before I was borned... and I can't find a way to vote those music down so they won't come to haunt me again. I like the way Pandora makes it easy to do so.
Alas, The perfect music site, where art thou?
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Human Nature
watching my 7 month old play for the past week is a interesting experience. He's old enough to play letter blocks but not old enough to manipulate it to build something out of them, so what ends up happening is I would be tempted and build a castle with the blocks and he would destroy it right afterward, he seems to have fun with this.
Hmm. this got me wondering, if it's human nature to destroy things before they know how to build stuffs? In a human development, it seems to be true, since babies aren't really capable of building things and they are well capable of destroying things. But in the scope of the long stream of human history, does it still stand true? Human build up cities and civilizations before wars and other nature means destroyed them. But what has been more visible is also humans' damage to the nature and our planet before we can realize what we have done and start to do something constructive to it.
Perhaps human are still at the toddler stage as tenure of this planet? Our compounded minds are just started to realize our means of destructions and started to learn and figure out how we can do something positive about. Alas, we need to grow faster before it's too late...
Hmm. this got me wondering, if it's human nature to destroy things before they know how to build stuffs? In a human development, it seems to be true, since babies aren't really capable of building things and they are well capable of destroying things. But in the scope of the long stream of human history, does it still stand true? Human build up cities and civilizations before wars and other nature means destroyed them. But what has been more visible is also humans' damage to the nature and our planet before we can realize what we have done and start to do something constructive to it.
Perhaps human are still at the toddler stage as tenure of this planet? Our compounded minds are just started to realize our means of destructions and started to learn and figure out how we can do something positive about. Alas, we need to grow faster before it's too late...
Friday, April 10, 2009
whoami on the web
http://heta13.blogspot.com + twitter.com/heta13 + http://picasaweb.google.com/heta13 + http://www.imeem.com/people/9Hdp9Yh + ...
= http://tinyurl.com/heta13
Welcome to the era of net identify transparency...
= http://tinyurl.com/heta13
Welcome to the era of net identify transparency...
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Brownie is missed
for his new dress ? :-)
Friday, October 17, 2008
Full body check
Sitting in the waiting room of the local hospital, waiting for
somebody to draw my blood. According to the doctor, this should be
the full body test. Not sure why, but back in Taiwan full body check
means urine, stool, blood, x-ray tests, maybe even more. Here, it's
only urine and blood. And they don't even test the blood against
everything.
somebody to draw my blood. According to the doctor, this should be
the full body test. Not sure why, but back in Taiwan full body check
means urine, stool, blood, x-ray tests, maybe even more. Here, it's
only urine and blood. And they don't even test the blood against
everything.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Grrrr.... Today is not a very smooth day~
I was about to try out WordPress, but something stirring in the air stops me. Whenever I am about to post a longer article, my network is "Smurf Attacked" and nothing can be sent thru network... not even creating a draft on Gmail.
Anyway, I am back to blogger. and below was what I was to say...
I am finally tired of waiting for myself to learn all the web technologies. Ever since two years ago when I started to dig into website building and all that, I have been hoping to build myself a nice website, hosted in my home server, so I can run the show from home. But I was never quite satisfied on my own speed of learning. It feels like a perpetual chase to the knowledge: when I was picking up on Linux, people are running home servers and run linux networks; when I was able to host a home network based on linux, and started to learn HTML/javascript, people are running LAMP websites and running photo gallery and e-commerce at home; when I have learn xhtml, css, and LAMP, people came up with Ruby, Python, and AJAX building super websites in an instance... I am finally tired of chasing.
I've decided to relax, use the free resources and other's expertise to enjoy the service I need, meanwhile adapt my own learning curve... sometimes it will be more efficient to accept who you are rather than trying to be somebody else!
I will start to run the blog with blogger, photo album with flickr, and links on del.icio for links... at least for a while, before I recover from the depression gained from accidentally deleting my web root files without backing up! (yes, formating seemed to be cool thing to do then...)
I was about to try out WordPress, but something stirring in the air stops me. Whenever I am about to post a longer article, my network is "Smurf Attacked" and nothing can be sent thru network... not even creating a draft on Gmail.
Anyway, I am back to blogger. and below was what I was to say...
I am finally tired of waiting for myself to learn all the web technologies. Ever since two years ago when I started to dig into website building and all that, I have been hoping to build myself a nice website, hosted in my home server, so I can run the show from home. But I was never quite satisfied on my own speed of learning. It feels like a perpetual chase to the knowledge: when I was picking up on Linux, people are running home servers and run linux networks; when I was able to host a home network based on linux, and started to learn HTML/javascript, people are running LAMP websites and running photo gallery and e-commerce at home; when I have learn xhtml, css, and LAMP, people came up with Ruby, Python, and AJAX building super websites in an instance... I am finally tired of chasing.
I've decided to relax, use the free resources and other's expertise to enjoy the service I need, meanwhile adapt my own learning curve... sometimes it will be more efficient to accept who you are rather than trying to be somebody else!
I will start to run the blog with blogger, photo album with flickr, and links on del.icio for links... at least for a while, before I recover from the depression gained from accidentally deleting my web root files without backing up! (yes, formating seemed to be cool thing to do then...)
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