New York Apartment Hunt

OK, I know I said I will be more regular in blog postings in my last post and I have already missed a day. I have been busy posting on my MySQL blog. Actually once I find an apartment (for which me and my wife have been searching so hard) I will be much relaxed.

Today was the last day of our Systems Administrator Steven Kreuzer who left Fotolog for OKCupid. Although I worked with Steven for a very short time (about 9 days) I really enjoyed the time and will miss him. Good luck Steven.

I have a lot of work to do at my job. It will be a great help if I finally get settled in my own apartment. Today I am going with Taso Du Val, our other Systems Administrator to hunt for an apartment where he lives.

Tomorrow morning, I plan to go see a couple of houses and apartments all over New Jersey and New York. Wish me good luck.

Farhan

New Phone Yay!

Today I got the first piece of mail (it was actually a parcel) shipped to my new office. The parcel was from my lovely wife who was shipping me my new cell phone. It's a Verizon phone and though simple, I like it very much. Now I can talk to my wife for free!

I was using Tracfone for some time now but it is really expensive. So good bye Tracfone and welcome Verizon.

links for 06/18/06

• Vtext: Use it to send SMS messages to Verizon customers
• memcached: a distributed memory object caching (daemon) system from Danga, creators of LiveJournal. memcached helps decrease database load in highly dynamic web applications
  
• memcache: PHP memcache functions provide "procedural and object oriented interface to memcached
• PECL / memcache: Perl interface to memcache
• Danga: the company behind LiveJournal
  

June 15th, Death Anniversary, New Job and Father's day

This June 15th was the 11th death anniversary of my dad. Every father's day I get sad as it comes just after my dad's anniversary. May Allah bless his soul and may he rest in peace.

This June 15th also marks the day I started my new job as the DBA for a NY based company. For quite some time now I have been trying to specialize in just one field and my new job will let me do just that. So far I have just worked two days there but things are already looking very interesting. I am very excited to start working with a great team of people who are passionate about their work.

Today (June 17th) I spent most of the day searching for an apartment so I can get my lovely wife with me here. It sucks to be away from her.

From now on, I will be doing the best possible attempt to regularly maintain this blog.

And oh yes, Happy Father's day to all of you.

-- Farhan