Advogato: Personal info for jgg

15 Jun 2001 »

Mm, more length.

I finally graduated, degree in hand and fancy square hat on head.

I continue to be employed. Fancy that.

13 Feb 2001 »

Ah, it has been a long time since posting here. Good thing nobody cares.

I had to forsake the DVORAK bit again, since I started a job, and it just wouldn't do to sit down at a QWERTY keyboard and type really slowly. So, as the message below suggests, I am actually employed now, at an Edmonton company called YottaYotta. We make storage system. Big Storage. I think I pass a couple terabytes of disk on the way to my desk, internal test systems. Heh.

So now, I am a 'Hardware Designer' which in practice means I get to write VHDL and think Big Thoughts about Big Storage.

Debian's BTS is killing our servers, and we lost a few more machines for various reasons that are still in the process of being recovered.. Debian Elections draw nearer, I think I might interview the candidates again, like all the past years!

24 Nov 2000 »

I can almost type at a reasonable pace on a DVORAK layout, but still no touch typing action.

I had my first ever job interview today (at a local company called YottaYotta). My poor expectations were shattered, I was expecting to find an interesting but generally failing company, but instead they actually seem fairly reasonable. So now I may actually have to make some sort of choice and I'm not entirely sure how you go about doing that..

Finding a place to work always seemed so abstract, but now confronted with the brutal reality that there is a choice things seem rather dire. .

Being very indesicive sucks.

10 Nov 2000 »

My forsaking the world continues at a good pace.

For no particular reason I thought I'd achieve something by learning the DVORAK keyboard layout. Several days into the madness and I aw still trudging along. This makes communication difficult which explains the forsaking

Perhaps eventually I can rejoin the world of the typing - it took several mins just to enter this diary entry!

28 Oct 2000 »

It has been another month so I guess it is time to post something.

Debian had another disk crash and got a new box (klecker.debian.org) in order to replace the failed one. Lots of data was lost but nothing irreplacable. We still have two boxes that won't stay up more than a month, watchdog works good on one so the downtime is only about a half hour, the other nothing seems to work for. Sigh.

I never got to start my document, apathy rains supreme around here. Plus I'm feeling a major amount of aprehnsion about the future. How odd.

When did the diary entries turn into a chat line?

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