Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal

Google university search is neat.

Apparently, I’m going to give the klife talk at the Technion’s CS facutly’s OS course again this semester. I wonder when they’ll get around to actually asking me 🙂

The Ottawa Linux Symposium 2006 CFP has been published.

I was looking for something on google recently, and one of the results was my old advogato diary. I was much more prolific, if prosaic, at the time. Today I did $FOO, yesterday I did $BAR, next week I’ll be doing $BUNCH_OF_STUFF. I think I’d like to re-experiment with that style of blogging again for a while.

So… Wednesday, Thursday – military reserve duty, then home to catch up on work, satisfy the latest addiction (we have the first season on DVD and the fifth season is on every night on hallmark; we’re at least residents by now, if not attending) and sleep.

Today was gym in the morning (woot! thank you ladypine for dragging me!) and then “thinking on my back with my eyes closed” until a couple of hours ago. We’re supposed to be at the Rabkin’s in 20 minutes, so I better post this and jet!

(next post: my exciting plans for next week. Stay tuned!)

Courtesy of Avishay. Payback shall be forthcoming!

I am expected to file patents. The number of patents I file is considered a measure of my innovation; each patent filed is handsomely rewarded with cash; filing patents is one of the things I need to do in order to advance professionally.

I am expected to hate patents, especially software patents. They stifle innovation, are used to stifle competition, and are generally evil.

If I won’t file a patent, in all likelihood, someone else will. At least my patents are not trivial. But a lesser evil is still evil.

What’s the right thing to do?

I filed 6 patents in 2005.

Slides from today’s The Xen Hypervisor and its IO Subsystem talk.

Why You Should Never Post Your Picture on the Internet.

I needed a good chuckle this morning.

Is it time to rejoice yet? (Update: YES!).

I picked up George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones on the last trip, and it rules my world. I devoured it over the weekend, enjoying every page. I can’t believe I’ve waited so long to read it! Highly recommended.