I enjoyed my trip. Well, not the part of being away from my family, but there is much to see/experience in London. A curious difference between London and the UK in general and the US is the apparent lack of public restrooms (or WC’s if I have the right localization). Especially in a crowded space like Covent Garden. The customers in the UK (spent time with two at their sites, on the phone with ~5 across the world, and working with ~4 via email) have good problems (not as in blocking problems, but emergent problems that occur in a variety of use cases).

Spent the early afternoon at Westminster Abbey. Saw the tomb/memorials of Sir Issac Newton (all of physics), James Clerk-Maxwell (electromagnetic theory), Faraday (magnetism), and PAM Dirac (quantum theory). A shame they didn’t have anything for Turing (or if I missed it, lemme know and I’ll go back). Also saw memorials and tombs for Shakespeare (he’s buried at Stratford on Avon I think), Chaucer, Jane Austen, Keats, Shelley, … Very nice place, highly recommend it.

This isn’t what you might think from the title. Its an observation. I hope I don’t misstate what I intend to say, so feel free to chime in if you don’t agree with the wording. When you have a situation where a customer has a set of vendors, and a problem that needs resolution, the customer will gravitate towards assigning blame for the problem to the most competent of the vendors, the most proactive of the vendors, in the hope that it will be resolved, regardless of whether or not that vendor’s gear/stack is in any way involved.

Long ago, I concluded that the day job was not a bank or credit granting institution. We aren’t equity financed at this time, have no finance arm/division with capital backing to provide large credit for customers to purchase with. And we have customers. Lots of them. Many/most asking for credit terms. But we can’t really float a loan of 1/5 of our yearly revenue for 90 days as some of these opportunities would require.

In part, because they weren’t overtly … or even subtly … selling anything. You can see the commercials here.

Good game … good game. Commercials were kinda lame though.

Was working on a post about the upcoming US elections. It wasn’t ready. I had edited it a number of times, and hadn’t gotten my complete thoughts down. Managed to hit the publish button midway though. Pulled it down. It wasn’t ready for consumption. Short version: US politics, always a messy game, is going to be ugly this year. We have hard core ideologues arrayed on the (effectively 2) sides, unwilling to compromise their positions for a “greater good” of the body politic.

СВЕТИ ГЕОРГИYeah, every few years we get some major stank drifting through our corner of the globe. This is going to be a very nasty election cycle. Very nasty. Many of the meme’s have been tried out against some of the candidates, and what stuck … well … stuck (and stunk). As usual, the good and bright people, the ones we need to be in office to help make hard decisions and leave … once again, these folks don’t seem to want all that goes with the process.

Yeah … the day job hardware. Current generation. Single box. Single thread. Single file system. Run status group 0 (all jobs): WRITE: io=130692MB, aggrb=4702.9MB/s, minb=4815.8MB/s, maxb=4815.8MB/s, mint=27790msec, maxt=27790msec File size is several times RAM size.Икони на светци