{"id":123,"date":"2005-02-04T01:42:53","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T00:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caliban.org\/wp\/2005\/02\/04\/nice-perk\/"},"modified":"2005-02-04T01:42:53","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T00:42:53","slug":"nice-perk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/2005\/02\/nice-perk\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Perk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was lucky enough to have a seat today in Kirk McKusick&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckusick.com\/consultancy.html\">course<\/a>,  <em>FreeBSD Kernel Internals<\/em>, based on his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0201702452\/calibanorg-20\"><em>The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System<\/em><\/a>. Today was the first day of the course, which has been organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a> and is being held on-site on Thursdays in February.<\/p>\n\n<p>How nice to be able to spend one day a week listening to a recognised expert on the UNIX operating system, as he runs through the design and implementation of the system that&#8217;s been keeping me in work all these years. And to think I get paid to sit there and listen to him, too. Poor me.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Finance department was having an ice-cream party when we stopped for a break in the mid-afternoon, so we even gatecrashed their party and tanked up on dessert.<\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a hard life sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was lucky enough to have a seat today in Kirk McKusick&#8217;s course, FreeBSD Kernel Internals, based on his book, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. Today was the first day of the course, which has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/2005\/02\/nice-perk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}