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Subject: 2006, Seems like Only Yesterday for Brad Only
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Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 12:28:00 -0800
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<A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/2006/01/">Jan</A>
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<li/> Started game night. It feels like it has been longer but it was
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only one year ago that I started doing the board game /card game
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thing at my house once a month. A year later we have a hundred people
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on the mailing list, the event regularly has 30 or more people
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attending. Its fun
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<li/> <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/393408.html">Went to
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Australia</A>. Attended the Linux Conference there, which was one of
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the best conferences I have been to in years. Stayed with Arjen and
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Greg.
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<LI/> Launched <A HREF="http://planetasterisk.org/">Planet Asterisk</A>.
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<A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/2006/02/">Feb</A>
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<li/> Started hunting down <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/
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400869.html">Blue Tooth viruses</A> and reading up on them.
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<li/> Went to <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/
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403909.html">Mashup Camp</A>.
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<A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/2006/03/">March</A>
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<li/> Posted about <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/
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407733.html">recharging laptops off the bathroom power</A>. I've been
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getting hilarious photos ever since from others. Somewhere in iPhoto
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is the picture of the guy who ran the orange power cord back to his
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seat. He had a power strip for others to share.
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<li/> I got to see <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/
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409338.html">Mt Vasuveus</A> during a Sun Rise. Incredible site. One
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of the prettiest mountains I have seen.
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<li/> Learned about <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/
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413808.html">Adam Bosworth's Six F's</A>. This has been a really
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wonderful tool to use to apply in learning about my own focus and the
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focus of other's.
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<A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/2006/04/">April</A>
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<li/> Started playing with <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/
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415389.html">NAS solutions</A>.
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<li/> <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/419138.html">MySQL's User
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Conference</A>. Got to see Linden Lab's describe their architecture.
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It is neat, but its not the future (the future is federated
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services... Linden Lab is similar to AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve; HTTP was
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the federated information system which was ubiquitious).
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<A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/2006/05/">May</A>
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<li/> Tim O'Reilly brought up the topic of <A HREF="http://
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radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/05/
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brian_aker_of_mysql_responds.html">"Database War Stories"</A>. I
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still think that there is a place for <A HREF="http://
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krow.livejournal.com/421577.html">meta data which can be queried in a
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structured format</A>. But blobs? Less and less do I believe they
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have any business being in databases, and more and more I believe
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that something closer to HTTP like grammar makes more sense.
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<li/> Went to my eighth year of <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/
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425894.html">Folklife</A>
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<li/> Started my practice of always going for walks on Sunday. I
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don't always do this, but I do it most of the time.
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<li/> Tweaked my roll at MySQL. I only tend to stay at companies for
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three years or so, and this has been good for me.
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<A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/2006/06/">June</A>
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<li/> <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/427018.html">Panel
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discussion</A> in Boston on Open Source Business Models. This was
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with Miguel de Icaza from Novell, and Mike Olsen from SleepyCat/
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Oracle. Stephen Walli set it up.
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<li/> Spoke at <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/
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427916.html">LinuxWorld</A> in Korea.
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<li/> Went to the Summer Solstice Parade in Freemont.
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<A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/2006/07/">July</A>
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<li/> Started the <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/
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434338.html">Genesis</A> articles. I never finished this writing
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project but it got me into thinking about the problem domain in new
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ways.
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<li/>New <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/436692.html">Julian
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photo</A>. Have I mentioned lately Julian is one of the most filled
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with life people I have met?
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<li/> Party at <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/
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438599.html">OSCON</A>.
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<A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/2006/08/">August</A>
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<li/> Played with <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/
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442461.html">S3</A> a bit to see what it was all about.
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<li/> Started tossing out concepts for new <A HREF="http://
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krow.livejournal.com/443675.html">Engine designs</A> for MySQL
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<li/> First release of the <A HREF="http://hg.tangent.org/
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memcache_engine">memcache storage engine</A> for MySQL.
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<A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/2006/09/">September</A>
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<li/> <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/446256.html">Yellow
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Jackets</A> invade the alley. The mailman still hates me.
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<li/> <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/450890.html">EC2</A>
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response to <A HREF="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/09/
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amazon_ec2_mysq.html">Jeff Barr</A>.
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<A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/2006/10/">October</A>
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<li/> Trixbox <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/
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451870.html">acquisition</A> by Fonality. It shows how quickly the
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focus of where open source can shift and that in the end
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distributions are still king.
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<li/> I confront the <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/
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453660.html">War on Moisturizer</A>.
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<li/> <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/454477.html">Breakfast</A>
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with Ace and Eric in Amsterdam
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<A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/2006/11/">November</A>
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<li/> <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/456700.html">MySQL Camp</
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A>. The Friday and Saturday morning were my favorite parts.
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Listening to the Zmanda folks describe backups was really neat since
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it meant someone is actually readying the design documents we publish!
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<li/> <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/459865.html">Concrete!</A>
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The return of having a hot tub again :)
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<A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/2006/12/">December</A>
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<li/> Finally got around to playing with <A HREF="http://
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krow.livejournal.com/467425.html">One Wire</A>. This solves a few
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pieces of the puzzle for 2007 projects around the house.
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<li/> More <A HREF="http://krow.livejournal.com/467425.html">DD-WRT</
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A>. This is the first year I have really gotten into watching what
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the communities around embedding Linux in application devices are
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doing. rPath is another project that has sparked my interest in the
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last month.
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<li/> <A HREF="http://blip.tv/file/115874">Ignite Seattle</A>. As
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much as I do different community activities I don't invest nearly as
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much as I would like in the technical community in Seattle. I need to
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work on changing this.
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On the technology front I notice a few themes. A need for NAS at
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home, more application focused Hardware, and while Google is great I
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found myself more interested in what Amazon was doing this year.
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Traveling? I can't tell if I traveled more or less this year. I
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certainly racked up my frequent flyer miles though.
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On a personal note I have "space" which feels more like mine. This is
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good for me.
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Health? I ate more like a Vegan this year then in any previous. I
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doubt I will become a vegan, traveling would just about make this
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impossible for me, but I like the trend I see in my diet. I have also
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done a lot more walking this year (and met one great walking partner
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too!).
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2005 was a lousy year for me writing software, 2006 was a complete
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change. Wrote more, picked up better habits in writing code this year
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(far more test cases, better use of revision control systems...), etc...
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Blogging? I wrote more this year. Heavy on the technology side, not
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as strong on the personal accounts of the world around me.
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There will be a post later on about resolutions and tasks for the
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next year (Will he finally get around to creating an Audio blog? Will
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he kick all of the constructions crews out of his house? Will he get
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a new puppy? Will he find Nirvana in NAS? Will <A HREF="http://
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exploitseattle.com/">ExploitSeattle</A> finally get rebooted? And how
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about that Crawler project?).
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--
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_______________________________________________________
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Brian "Krow" Aker, brian at tangent.org
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Seattle, Washington
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http://krow.net/
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http://tangent.org/
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You can't grep a dead tree.
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