http://owenkellett.com Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:45:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a good one. Since I'm currently unemployed and looking for a job, naturally I've been sending resumes out. I've used LaTeX to generate my resume for years now, and it has always worked out quite well. However, today I had a need to print out my ... http://owenkellett.com/2010/02/18/oh-latex-how-you-taunt-me/ Repeat visitors to this blog may be wondering: what happened to my frequent ultimate frisbee status updates? Well, the status updates may have petered out, but that doesn't mean I'm not still playing. I'm still very much attending the regular Monday, Wednesday, and Friday lunchtime pickup games in ... http://owenkellett.com/2010/02/15/still-playing-ultimate/ As I mentioned previously, I do intend to continue working on Project Darkstar part-time at least while I search for new employment opportunities. Not only will it allow me and whoever else is interested push along the original goals of the project, but it will also give me a ... http://owenkellett.com/2010/02/04/reddwarf/ It's been a while since I posted anything on this blog, and I wish my return was the result of better circumstances but no such luck: my position at Sun Microsystems has been eliminated, and as a result I have been let go. It is ironic that the European ... http://owenkellett.com/2010/02/03/shocking-news/ [caption id="attachment_563" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Owen and Katy atop Cannon Mountain"][/caption]For several weeks, now, Katy and I have been hoping to knock off another 4000 foot mountain in our goal of hiking all of New Hampshire's 4000 footers. With winter closing in, there aren't too many weekends left before we ... http://owenkellett.com/2009/11/16/cannon-mountain/ Over the past week or so, I've been working on putting together some micro benchmarks for Project Darkstar. There has been a significant uptick in forum activity lately relating to stress testing and performance issues. In particular, we've seen many questions along the lines: "I can only connect ... http://owenkellett.com/2009/11/12/rule-1-of-programming-its-always-your-fault-almost/ A quick update on the ultimate front. I've been playing regularly the past few weeks, but not without some discomfort. My ankle is still not 100% but it's faded into a nagging annoyance. It appears that it always feels worse in the morning and then loosens up ... http://owenkellett.com/2009/11/12/ultimate-ongoing/ It's been over five weeks since I sprained my ankle during an ultimate game. Unfortunately, it still hasn't completely healed. It's likely that I didn't give it enough time as only a week after the incident, I was back on the field. After a couple weeks of ... http://owenkellett.com/2009/10/12/ultimate-update-5/ [caption id="attachment_501" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Owen and Katy on top of Mt. Lafayette"][/caption] This past weekend, Katy and I went on the first of hopefully many adventures hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It's been quite some time since I've done a lot of real, solid hiking. ... http://owenkellett.com/2009/10/07/lafayette-lincoln-loop/ Last week, a number of us from the Project Darkstar team were in Austin for the Austin Game Developer's Conference. Like last year, we had a large booth on the expo floor. However, while last year we were largely focused on demonstrating Project Darkstar's capabilities to scale and ... http://owenkellett.com/2009/09/25/austin-gdc-2009/