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Hi, I'm James Briggs, an Internet computer programmer/DBA in Silicon Valley. I've been programming for 20 years for companies like eBay, Cisco, Yahoo!, Apple, Amazon and startups.In my spare time I do Open Source programming and like flying airplanes, karate and studying Asian languages.
This blog talks about events, places and things in my life.


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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Visiting the Cisco DNA Lab
I visited the Cisco Data Center Network Applications (DNA) Lab this morning in Santa Clara in Building 7, near Tasman and Cisco Way. Even the lobby is high-tech – I was greeted by a remote lobby secretary via camera. The … Continue reading
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IMUG: Worldwide Lexicon Project
Brian McConnell from the worldwidelexicon.org project talked about their Open Source localization project at IMUG tonite. The team is now 5 guys, some developers in Russia with i18n experience. Most are volunteers, some are paid. WordPress users can install a … Continue reading
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Amazon EC2 Links
So Amazon EC2 registration is open again. Interesting … I’ve done colocation and dedicated hosting, time to do elastic cloud computing I guess. The upsides with both dedicated hosting and EC2 are: no data center to provision and manage just … Continue reading
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Chuck Norris Quad Shot Latte
I was in the Coffee Society cafe in the Pruneyard Shopping Center today in Campbell (South San Jose), and noticed a sandwich board promoting their “Chuck Norris Quad Shot Latte”. I just had to have that! As a bonus, the … Continue reading
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