http://vsharma.net life @ vsharma . net Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:19:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Calaveras Airport Short Final (KCPU) Originally uploaded by Dalfry October 19th 2008. Our longest trip to date. Palo Alto Airport (KPAO) to Calaveras Airport (KCPU) and back. Tried to meetup with Joy (http://joyduttaphoto.com) and Piyush (returning back from mono lake) but their cell phones were not reachable. http://vsharma.net/524 So I am designing this highly available network (99.999% uptime). The application has a bunch of clusters to handle application fail over and load balancing and the cluster members are spread over redundant switches connected to redundant firewalls which are connected to redundant edge routers which are connected to the colo ... http://vsharma.net/523 Seriously, knowledge makes you feel so powerful. Its almost intoxicating. In my case, zomby-fying. This has been for me in the past few months. I have had a practical crash course on various things because of the situations I had to deal with and it feels very good. And this will ... http://vsharma.net/522 Durga Pooja Sunnyvale temple Originally uploaded by Dalfry Huge turnout of devotees, long lines for prasaad, where else incrhe US but bay area. http://vsharma.net/521 photo.jpg Originally uploaded by Dalfry Dandia at Santa Clara. A very small example of how many Indians there are in the bay area. http://vsharma.net/520 OLPC Originally uploaded by Dalfry Wee! I got an OLPC to play with. http://vsharma.net/519 So after an intense week of training at Amelia Reid Aviation, almost 35 landings and approximately 10 hours of flying, I got my tailwheel endorsement! I can now fly any tail wheel airplane I am checked out for. Right now, I am checked out for the Bellanca Citabria. But as usual, ... http://vsharma.net/518 Piper Cub Hand Start Originally uploaded by Dalfry I witnessed the technique for the first time. This is my tail wheel instructor hand propping a piper cub. Literally hands on flying using very basic techniques is what this tail wheel endorsement is teaching me. http://vsharma.net/517 Tailwheel endorsement Originally uploaded by Dalfry One more flight and I should have my tail wheel endorsement. My first experience with flying a stick control aircraft. Lots of fun. Airplane in the pic is a Bellamca Citabria at Amelia Reid Aviation, Reid Hillview Airport. http://vsharma.net/516 Prompted by multiple queries from people reading my blog, here is the wordpress single sign-on with CAS plugin that I wrote several years ago. At that time, I was trying to prove a point to some folks at work and I literally wrote this in one session within a few hours. ... http://vsharma.net/515