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Introductions
Hello World.
I'm Mark, and I do a lot of programming, designing of systems, working ridiculous hours, ranting about many things, and I am frequently guilty of re-inventing wheels (which shall henceforth be refered to as either 'improvement' or 'learning' 
. Currently, I am involved in re-inventing designing a new suite of telephone conference call back-end systems for a rapidly expanding conference call company, from the ground up.
. Currently, I am involved in Doing this kind of work on the carrier grade level involves the convergence of a lot of technologies, and there's a truckload of R&D involved, which is bloody fantastic since I get bored too easily when there's nothing new to learn, or not enough diversity.
I arrived in this part of the IT industry after doing some weird things:
- Five years in the games industry (hellishly boring; trust me - I'll explain why another time)
- A few years developing bespoke systems, providing services and Linux "appliances" for businesses around South Africa
- Loads of freelance development on various platforms (mobile handsets, 8-bit embedded systems, even Windows apps)
- An entire childhood & adolescence involved (misspent?) in the demoscene. Epic fun. Low-level programming, register fiddling, cycle counting and reverse engineering is the shit!
Anyway, talk is cheap, and I've clogged the Intertubes quite enough!
Coming up next, something that has been a constant thorn in my side as a wretched Debian user: building custom kernels.
About lsd
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- @ripienaar
- Flashpolicyd
- Flickr
- London DevOps Group
- MCollective Plugins
- R.I.Pienaar
- Ruby PDNS
- The Marionette Collective
- Wiki
Tweets
- Blog Post: New release of my Puppet Concat tool with 0.24.8+ support http://bit.ly/aA9RYh #puppet
- French village went insane after CIA spiked its bread with LSD http://bit.ly/9r2307
- It's ironic how you cannot send email with google charts api images to gmail users and expect it to work. way to go.
- Google charting API really is very sexy
- High Scalability: Saying Yes to NoSQL; Going Steady with Cassandra at Digg http://bit.ly/9Kli5f
- Caffiene infused. 2am to bed day before delivering the last talk of the day is not recommended
- Once again discovering that something as simple as correct MX and NS records is a very effective CAPTCHA to weed out idiot hosting companies
- I love the E4 ipad ripoff ad http://srt.ly/epad
- RT @garnaat: The only accurate model of the system is the system itself. All other representations are a compromise. <- what he said
- Parallels announces support for Google Chrome Operating System http://bit.ly/aCXXCJ
Reading
Planned books:
- The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain by Daniel Gardner
- Relentless by Dean Koontz
- Mind Over Ship by David Marusek
- The New Space Opera by Gardner Dozois
- The New Space Opera 2 by Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Strahan
Current books:
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Ariel: A Book of the Change by Steven R. Boyett
Recent books:
- Hacking Vim: A Cookbook to Get the Most Out of the Latest Vim Editor by Kim Schulz
- Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design by Diomidis Spinellis , Georgios Gousios
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July 10th, 2009 - 04:04
Yo LSD!!!
Long time no chat mate! Small world
Working down under for a company called Right Hemisphere now…You and Arri at the same gig now?
July 10th, 2009 - 08:50
Leon
Nah we’re doing different things, but LSD was too lazy to set up his own blog and so he’s leaching off my google juice.
Really though I invited him to post here cos I realized I never get time and it would be a shame to be another-dead-blog, hopefully inject some life back into things, would welcome other guest bloggers too, hint hint.
July 10th, 2009 - 12:00
Jislaaik, meneer Breedt!
What happened to your left hemisphere?
Nah, I’m still doing that stuff I told you about last time we spoke (telecomms), except now it’s got really interesting and challenging. I’m putting together a series of articles(?) to post here about a UDP/IP stack I wrote at work that bypasses the BSD socket layer for huge performance increases. That kinda stuff is right up my straße.
Don’t worry, RIP hasn’t become a Debian fanboy!