Monthly Archives: April 2014

Heading to Africa: Victoria Falls, Zambia, Namibia

Posted on April 8, 2014 by

As I mentioned earlier, we’re getting ready for a trip. Six years ago Kathleen and I went to Kenya and Tanzania for a 2 week African Safari and ended the trip with a 3 day stay on the island of … Continue reading →

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Installing Ubuntu (via crubuntu) on a Samsung 300 Series Chromebook

Posted on April 5, 2014 by

We’re getting ready for a trip in which we expect to take a lot of pictures. So I’d like to take a small, indexpensive computer along to handle the task of copying pictures from the cameras and memory cards to … Continue reading →

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Speaking at OpenWest 2014 Conference: real-time search infrastructure architecture at craigslist

Posted on April 2, 2014 by

Just a quick heads-up that I’ll be giving a 50 minute talk at OpenWest in Utah on Thursday, May 8th. The talk is titled real-time search infrastructure architecture at craigslist and is completely new. We’ve recently completed the 3 major … Continue reading →

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