Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal

Mission accomplished. I’m going home now 🙂

My McGuyver.

… and I’m off to the US. That is, unless Rita decides to interfere. See you on the other side!

LibraryThing is awesome. I’m ‘muli’, naturally.

Thanks, ijon!

Guess who’s going to be in town at the same time as the P=ac^2 conference?

So it looks like I’m heading for the US again next week. First a few days in Austin working on Xen related things, and then a week in the NY area working on … other Xen related things.

I don’t know yet how busy this trip will be. Options range from “laid back” to “lock me in the lab until it works”, and are mostly dependent on other people, so we’ll just have to wait and see.

The Haifa Symphony Orchestra will be performing in April my favorite classical work, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. I’m so there…

So a Microsoft vendor employee approached ESR, probably because he hasn’t done his homework, and ESR then reacted like a spoiled brat. Read the two emails – I think it’s obvious who’s the bigger fool in this story.

This and Shachar’s entry reminded me that MS tried to recruit me as well a few years ago, before I came to work for IBM at the Haifa Research Lab. I spent a pleasant three hours interviewing at MS for a position as a “full time consultant on the Linux system”, whatever that means (what it probably meant at the time was “how can we learn from Linux and make better products that compete with it?”) . I don’t remember much from the interview, except that I gave an off-the-cuff lecture on the design and implementation of syscalltrack. Hey, they asked 🙂

Eventually I decided that working for MS is not something that I could do with a clean conscience and told them so. Around the same time I accepted IBM’s offer. When MS heard about it, one of the guys who interviewed me, who previously used to work for the lab, called me and passionately tried to get me to change my mind. His main selling point was that IBM research plays, but only at MS do you get to write real software. Considering my usual opinion of MS’s software, I’d say this was an interesting, but less than persuasive, argument…

Is anyone using FitDay.com? I just signed up (too lazy for the alternative, writing my own tracking software), we’ll see how it works out.

The Open Graphics project seems like an interesting way to learn more about hardware design.

Some days, all I do is think. Some days, I argue all day. With myself, occasionally. Some days, I deal with papers, others, with patents (it’s a necessary evil). Some days, I get something done. Others… I don’t.

Today was a good day.