Who's Your Data?: Things to do in Newport Beach when you’re done

Pete Smith and I finished up early at a customer site this week in Newport Beach, CA. It seemed right to hit the Corona Mexicano Bar (& Grill we heard). It was happy hour. We were thirsty. The following is what you talk about at 6pm on a Tuesday night in Newport Beach when you’re done.

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Second Life is a little weird; especially the stat about 60% of the users being men and 70% of the Avatars being women.

Anaheim was up on Detroit 3-0 in a series close out game. We still hate Detroit in Denver even though Claude Lemuiex, Patrick Roy and Valerie Kaminsky are long gone.

Our assumption going in was that the “medium shelf” Margarita’s @ Corona Mexicano would be watered down. We were wrong.

The best way to migrate data from an old storage array to a new storage array is as follows: First, apply Symantec (Veritas) Volume Manager to the old array. Encapsulate the disk. Mirror the disk. Once the mirror is complete, break the mirror. Un-encapsulate the disk. No charge for the above, but margarita’s were $8.95.

Our observation was that the tide does not come in and go out on a regular basis. In Science class the teacher told me it followed the lunar cycles. I always thought the moon was a long ways away to be affecting the beachfront. To my discerning “medium shelf” eyes it appeared to be ebbing and flowing.

Read The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. It is a great mix of magic, sci-fi and fantasy. Oh, and Stardust, the Neil Gaiman book, is coming soon to the Cine-plex.

Our flight home was late. By the time we got back to Denver we were dead.