Much has happened in the last month.<\/p>\n\n
Sarah moved to San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, temporarily moving in with me while she searched for an apartment. She also started work as a product manager for salesforce.com<\/a>, an ASP start-up. TurboLinux<\/a> and Red Hat<\/a> are clients. Maybe Linuxcare<\/a> will be one day.<\/p>\n\n Sarah was lucky enough to quickly secure an apartment in the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco and will move into it the second week of September. It’s nice, but very expensive. This city has crazy rents. Thank heavens for corporate housing.<\/p>\n\n I went to the Linux World Expo<\/a> in San Jose last week. Paul Russell’s IP Packet Mangling in the 2.4 Kernel<\/strong> tutorial was cool, but apart from that, it wasn’t much to write home about.<\/p>\n\n I took a closer look at Linux on an S\/390 on IBM’s stand and played a little with a large cluster on SGI’s stand, but not much else caught my jaded interest.<\/p>\n\n Sarah flew to Maine this evening to join her parents at their summer house. I fly out there next Wednesday to join them, which will constitute ye olde proverbial parental meeting<\/em>. That should prove interesting. It’s sink-or-swim time.<\/p>\n\n Work is progressing well. The NetApps<\/a> arrived for our network storage, so our infrastructure migration can now proceed apace.<\/p>\n\n I had to set up some hideous networking this week. Triple IP masquerading over IPSec, including port forwarding and asymmetric routing. Don’t ask. This was very painful, resulting in the discovery of a bug in Cisco’s IOS and ultimately necessitating the utilisation of a pure Linux solution. Who needs Cisco anyway?<\/p>\n\n Bought Sasha & John Digweed’s Communicate<\/em> and the latest in the Global Underground series, Dave Seaman’s Cape Town CD set at Virgin after seeing Sarah off this evening.<\/p>\n\n Anyway, time for bed. It’s breakfast at Max’s tomorrow, before heading up the Marin Headlands on bike with Matt & Phil<\/a>, fellow admins. Should be a really fun day and take my mind off missing Sarah.<\/p>\n\n I really should try to post a diary entry more frequently than once a month, but there’s so much to do and so little time. I should update my home page more often, too. I should write more free software, prepare slides for some internal trainings at Linuxcare, put together a Web site for Sarah’s father that I’ve been promising for months, publish the cool bash completion stuff I’ve been doing, etc. There just aren’t enough hours in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Much has happened in the last month. Sarah moved to San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, temporarily moving in with me while she searched for an apartment. She also started work as a product manager for salesforce.com, an ASP … Continue reading