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