My first job out of college was working for a defense contractor, splitting time between programming and system administration. It was a small company with a network of SGI machines. I had being working as an intern at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, working on a distributed volume visualization system. I knew that SGI machines were fun to work on and I liked graphics. I’d be able to do both at this new job, and I’d get some sysadmin experience.

This afternoon we released an upgrade to the Bloglines email subscription feature. You can now reply to emails received with your email subscriptions. From the announcement: Email subscriptions make it easy to receive your mailing list messages and other email within your Bloglines account. You can create an unlimited number of special @bloglines.com email addresses. Email sent to those addresses show up in your Bloglines account, as if they were blog entries.

This evening I attended the SDForum Web Services SIG down at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View. I normally don’t go to these things, because I’m really busy and I’m not a very good networker. But tonight’s meeting was on RSS and Tom Gieselmann from Bertelsmann Ventures was one of the speakers. I met Tom back when they first invested in ONElist back in 1998. They’re now looking at the RSS space.

It’s been over a week since I’ve been able to go flying. Work and weather have conspired against me. As a poor substitute, I went through some pictures taken with my Treo 600. The first two were taken by my instructor, Rich Acuff in 374DM, the plane I eventually did my private pilot checkride in. I don’t remember exactly, but my guess is that we were flying out to the coast by Half Moon Bay when these were taken: This last one is of a Pitts Special S-2B.

Sigh. Looks like the main Bloglines user database corrupted itself around 2:30am this morning. It did so in such a way so that the database still ‘ran’, for some definition of that. Which means that none of our automated monitoring picked up on this fact. We will change that. We take snapshots hourly, and we’re recovering to the most recent good snapshot. Unforuntately, that means that if you registered with Bloglines after around 2am Pacific time or so (and that’s a lot of people), you will need to register again.