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bcantrill

  1. Alexander (age 4): "Daddy, is DJ Dave really not Berkeley enough?" cc: @FogandSmog @LaeCharles 8:43 PM May 24th via web from Oakland, CA
  2. Yahoo! long ago jumped the shark -- but I think with Axis it may have just shit the bed 10:04 PM May 23rd via web from Oakland, CA
  3. It gets worse; from the Yahoo! Axis ad: skitch.com/bcantrill/8hey… Or perhaps these are just top "how to" searches for Y! employees? 10:01 PM May 23rd via web from Oakland, CA
  4. And Yahoo "Axis"?! Is this as in "Powers" or "of Evil"? And did this beat out "Yahoo Nazis" and "Yahoo al Qaeda"? 9:48 PM May 23rd via web from Oakland, CA
  5. I think Yahoo Axis may have been fibbing about its computer science degree: skitch.com/bcantrill/8h89… 9:44 PM May 23rd via web from Oakland, CA
  6. @TelstarLogistic Whoever wrote that didn't actually eat at Klein's -- or didn't know what to order. (Hot Walker FTMFW!) 7:52 PM May 23rd via Twitter for Android in reply to TelstarLogistic
  7. @dshaw @DeirdreS @jasonh And here is @mcavage showing my 7-year-old some tricks: skitch.com/bcantrill/8hgr… 2:49 PM May 23rd via web from San Francisco, CA in reply to dshaw
  8. @DeirdreS It was a singular treat to watch @mcavage amaze my 7-year-old (a budding guitarist) with the possibilities of the instrument 2:32 PM May 23rd via web from San Francisco, CA in reply to DeirdreS
  9. Looks like @pijewski picked the wrong day to be out of the office -- free lunch! #infinitevalue twitpic.com/9og6s0 12:29 PM May 23rd via Twitter for Android
  10. @KI4OTK Conversely, awesome free software can be crushed by open governance. #opensolaris 11:46 AM May 23rd via web from San Francisco, CA in reply to KI4OTK
  11. Me (hearing gleeful splashing): "Boys! Keep the water IN the bath!" Tobin (age 7): "Um, okay... Starting now?" 7:53 PM May 21st via web from Oakland, CA
  12. @postwait @mivok @LarryLawnmower My favorite is "Larry the Lawnmower and the Great Big Licensing Audit"! 3:36 PM May 18th via web from San Francisco, CA in reply to postwait
  13. When middle management ass-kissing is done in public -- and with an open mouth: blogs.oracle.com/danmas/entry/c… 1:06 PM May 17th via web from San Francisco, CA
  14. @unrepentantb @tilton_raccoon I think you're giving me way too much credit: x86 killed SPARC -- regardless of operating system 1:50 PM May 16th via web from San Francisco, CA in reply to unrepentantb
  15. That's not fog -- looks like a serious structure fire at roughly Battery and Sansome in San Francisco twitpic.com/9lsnw7 1:25 PM May 16th via Twitter for Android
  16. OH: "I quit a job because of GDB -- a good job, a job where they liked me!" 11:06 AM May 15th via web from San Francisco, CA
  17. We Joyent engineers are giving ourselves West African noms de guerre: meet General Protection Fault and Colonel Data Corruption! 10:05 AM May 15th via web from San Francisco, CA
  • Name Bryan Cantrill
  • Web http://dtrace.org...
  • Bio Nom de guerre: General Protection Fault, a.k.a. Colonel Data Corruption
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