In the afternoon, I went to more OSCON sessions. First, I went to [Nested Data Parallelism in Haskell](http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2007/view/e_sess/14014) by Simon Peyton-Jones, the same guy who gave the keynote talk I went to. This time, he was talking about extending the Haskell compiler to do data parallelism. Flat data parallelism is when a computation is split […]
I am going to the OSCON sessions today and the rest of the week. I missed most of the keynotes this morning. I did [Transactional Memory for Concurrent Programming](http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2007/view/e_sess/14017) by Simon Peyton-Jones and Haskell guy at Microsoft. He described the idea of transaction memory as the alternative to locking for concurrent programming. Transactional memory basically […]
My coworkers and I have gotten addicated to Starcraft again. The question is how to run it since my only computers are Linux and Mac. Starcraft under [Wine](http://winehq.com) on Linux works pretty well. There are some issues with the display changing resolution that makes it hard to switch back to the desktop and resizes programs. […]
On Saturday, I bought a new grill in preparation for my annual party on Wednesday. I was tired of the using the old charcoal grill that I inherited with my apartment. It was pain clean out the old ashes, a pain to light the charcoal even with a chimney starter, a pain to grill just […]
I got my passport today after just a week which eliminates all my worries about one for my trip to St Martin. It looks like the passport was issued on Friday and sent overnight. I was surprised that it showed up so quickly when there have been lots of reports of delays. Maybe a renewal […]
I am going on vacation to St Martin the second week of July. I am going with my friends Jan and Alethya who I went to Hawaii and other places with. [St Martin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Martin) is an island in the Caribbean divided between France (Saint-Martin) and Dutch (Sint Maarten). It is near Anguilla, St Kitts, and St […]
Does anybody know of software that could be used to build a mirroring reverse proxy? I am looking for something to cache and mirror files for distributions and other archives of mostly static files. To clients, it looks like a copy of the archive. If a file does not exist, or is too old, it […]
Last weekend, I took a ride on the [Portland Tram](http://www.portlandtram.org/). The Tram opened this February and goes from the South Waterfront to OHSU on Marquam Hill. The tower is easily visible just south of Ross Island Bridge and just south of I-5. The cost was a rather large $4. I went on Saturday but it […]
Two weeks ago, I went to [Silver Falls State Park](http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_211.php) with my coworker Tim and his wife Nariyo. This was my fourth time going to Silver Falls, which is east of Salem, and their first time. Only did a little bit of hiking and saw North Falls, walked the short trial to Upper North Falls. […]
On May 12, I went to [BarCamp Portland](http://barcamp.org/BarCampPortland1), an ad-hoc tech mini-convention at [CubeSpace](http://www.cubespacepdx.com/). I got there late in the afternoon and only went to a couple of talks. I went to a talk on Open Hardware and one on scaling Ruby. I saw a couple of people I knew but didn’t really chat much. […]