Stéphane Lee

Google switched off the lights. There was a stupid article the other day claiming that would save a lot of energy (750MWh) if Google used a black background.Well, let’s see now. As for the Earth hour, you will see that the energy usage will drop well before 8pm mark if people anticipate it or there will be no effect at all.

Google Docs is not good enough for me. I guess I’ll stay with OpenOffice. It’s slow for large set of data.

$ ping -c 5 spreadsheet.google.com
PING spreadsheets.l.google.com (66.102.1.136) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from he-in-f136.google.com (66.102.1.136): icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=27.7 ms
64 bytes from he-in-f136.google.com (66.102.1.136): icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=27.7 ms
64 bytes from he-in-f136.google.com (66.102.1.136): icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=27.3 ms
64 bytes from he-in-f136.google.com (66.102.1.136): icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=33.5 ms
64 bytes from he-in-f136.google.com (66.102.1.136): icmp_seq=4 ttl=242 time=24.3 ms

— spreadsheets.l.google.com ping statistics —
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 24.360/28.158/33.574/2.997 ms, pipe 2

It’s not that the connection is bad. It’s the app.

if (avg(max(temp(next_7_days))) > 7º C ) {
    $result = &garage->work (change,$car->tires(summer));
}
We are not there yet. Damn!

I took an hour to solve the Einstein’s Puzzle. I used a spreadsheet to help me get the answer. You can give it a try to solve this:

• There are 5 houses in five different colours.  They are lined up in a row side by side.
• In each house, lives a person with a different nationality.
• These 5 owners drink a certain drink, smoke a certain brand of tobacco and keep a certain pet.
• No owners have the same pet, smoke the same tobacco, or drink the same drink.

1. The Brit lives in the red house
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets
3. The Dane drinks tea
4. As you look at the 5 houses from across the street, the green house is adjacent to the left of the white house
5. The green house owner drinks coffee
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall raises birds
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill
12. The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks juice
13. The German smokes Prince
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

Question: Who owns the fish?

Answer: here
Source: http://www.ssqq.com/ARCHIVE/vinlin06.htm

Flying ground school is over now but I’ve not been flying for two months now. The weather was not helping either. My car looks 2 years older after this harsh winter. In about 2-3 flights, I’ll be ready for my first solo which is an important step in the learning process. But I’m holding off a bit. I’ve been too busy at work on some projects which are running concurrently and have almost the same deadline timeframe, i.e. next month. We are going full throttle: opening another datacentre (building the network from scratch), adding a 10G mesh MAN, integrating an IPS (anti-DDOS) system with our existing network, restructuring the internal vlan, adding more bandwidth… The rush will be in this spring and I suspect that summer will be slow. The staff increased 5 fold since I started and we are still recruiting. We would have to bear name tags at the next office Christmas party like M said.

And I have still 9 days of vacations to burn by end April. I haven’t decided yet.