http://www.unwiredthinking.com Random events/ opinions from the life of Paul T Maneesilasan Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:13:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The big event this weekend was the Soapbox race sponsored by Red Bull in Dolores Park.  There were some 75k people there and 35 soapbox cars.  We got there after maybe the 3-4 car started and I stayed till the end.  There were tons of people there and maybe 4 ... http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/10/19/soapbox-race-in-san-francisco-2008/ Last sunday Ron and I walked over to Fleet Week, it's an airshow at the waterfront that happens ever year.  It ran all week and we often saw and heard planes flying overhead while at work.  Once there, we meet up with another friend Damon, at the marina, who introduced ... http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/10/18/fleet-week-burning-man-decompression/ Yesterday I took the CalTrain over to Stanford's campus and visited the Cantor Museum.  The museum holds many of the works created by Auguste Rodin a french sculptor, donated by B. Gerald Cantor a philenthropic businessman from New York.  The museum also contains donations from the Stanford family as well ... http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/10/12/cantor-museum/ The Love Fest just when I thought I'd seen it all ;) If I had been to woodstock, I'm sure it would have been similar to this, albeit a few more drugs :p My friend Joyce called me in the morning and we went around lunch time. ... http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/10/05/only-in-san-francisco/ Well I arrived on tuesday, to start my first day of work here at Bebo on wednesday :) After taking the Bart from the airport and walking a few blocks, I arrived at Bayside Village.  As far as corporate appartments go, I must admit I was pretty dissapointed with the inside ... http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/10/01/new-place-in-san-fran/ Wow, as I consider ways websites try to build competitive advantages that are not easily replicated, one of the biggest leverages their size/money to create another advantage.  Here's another brilliant move by Google, read the AP article here. They've launched a Satellite into space today to capture imagery data, better ... http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/09/07/google-further-differentiates-itself/ Ok, I think most tech guys people have a handful of domains registered.  Ya never know when you might actually get the time to use one right?  Well I've registered quite a few over the years, unfortunately not all in the same place, and not all updated before their expiration ... http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/09/07/domain-registration-experience/ Its seems each year I've got something going on around the house :) After all my traveling, I've had some time to get to a few things. In the last two weeks I've changed a shower rod/curtain, installed a cabinet in a bathroom, and gave my deck some ... http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/06/24/projects-around-the-house/ From Hui Hin Thailand to Ocean City Maryland. Pulled some photos off my camera tonight, and found a bunch of golfing pics :) Ocean City: Thailand: http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/06/23/golf-around-the-world/ Ok, new mac so time for a clean custom install :) See my php and ruby writeups on previous Mac talks. First let me start by saying that these instructions are how I setup a mac from scratch and you might not necessarily follow the same steps, though I think ... http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/06/10/clean-install-of-osx-leopard/ I sat next to a virologist on my flight to Bejing and we began speaking of genetics, then viruses and it set me on an enlightening train of thought. I travel to Thailand to visit my father who is very sick. After viruses, we spoke of cancer and ... http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/05/17/from-evolution-to-the-bucket-list/ Having used Leopard's built in Ruby on Rails, I heard that the Apple guys also bundled Apache with PHP5. Here's a quickstart on setting up and using them: :update, where u see vi, you can replace with pico (a more friendly editor) if you don't know vi, most commands in ... http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/05/06/mac-using-apache-php-already-built-into-leopard/ Man, where do I start. Well I've come to the realization that many others have and that is that Ruby just doesn't scale as easily as other available languages nor does it have the polished feel of something like Java or C. Sure, it is much faster to ... http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/05/03/the-day-has-come-so-long-ruby-welcome-back-php/ Ok, I know I've been back for a while, but I've been accumulating things to blog about so, before I talk about todays latest and greatest, let me talk about the LBF that I attended in the second half of my London trip. First off, it was huge, supposedly the largest ... http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/05/03/the-london-book-fair/ I returned on thursday morning after spending almost a week in the UK. Although it was a short trip, the work / sightseeing mix was just right. The great company also helped. For those of you who didn't know, the purpose of the trip was the London ... http://www.unwiredthinking.com/2008/04/21/my-trip-to-london/