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Alan Porter's minimal net presence
Our 2011/2012 vacation in Hong Kong, Malaysia & China.
Photos
and commentary.
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2011-09-14 - President Barack Obama at NCSU
Audrey and I got to see President Obama speak about his
new American Jobs Act at NC State University.
Photos here.
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2011-08-26 - Our dog, Maggie
Maggie lived with our family for 16 years.
She passed away on August 26th.
Remembrance &
photos.
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2011-04-22 - Vacation in Hawaii
Our family spent a week in Oahu, exploring Waikiki
Beach, Honolulu, and the rest of the island. My parents
went with us.
You can read more here.
Photos here.
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2011-02-06 - Podcast
Sydney and I made a podcast to invite our Indian
Princess tribe to the meeting at our house.
Podcast XML feed here.
Direct MP3 links for
episode 1 (2009) and
episode 2 (2011).
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2010-12-17 - Our Newest US Citizen
After 16 years of being a permanent resident,
Foong applied for her US citizenship. After a
couple of interviews and a fairly basic civics
test, she took the oath and became an American.
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2010-10-13 - SUDOER
I was not the First in Flight, but I am a sudoer.
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2010-09-26 - NCNearSpace
Some of my friends launched a
helium balloon
up to 100,000+ feet, and I helped them with their
tracking system.
In the process, I also tinkered with
ham radio APRS
location tracking.
On launch day, I rode with the chase team, and helped find the balloon in the woods near a cow farm.
Read more about it on
my blog.
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2009-12-04 - My first iPhone app
My first iPhone app,
Tipster,
was published on the Apple app store.
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2009-10-07 - Hack-In-The-Box
While we were in Malaysia, I attended the
"Hack In The Box"
Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur.
It was all good fun: hacking the cloud, wireless snooping, Blackberry spyware, lock-picking, the Russian black market, and more.
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2009-09-27 - Three weeks in Malaysia
We spent three weeks in
Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
We visited friends and family, saw a few sights, and even rode an elephant.
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2009-07-11 - iPhone
I finally decided that I was "cool enough" to own an iPhone.
Or maybe iPhones are now geeky enough that I can own one.
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2008-10-09 - Walt Disney World
We packed up the Family Truckster and headed to Florida for a week in Wally World.
We had a Fantasmic time!
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2008-10-02 - USS Intrepid
I went with my dad to the re-docking of the USS Intrepid in New York.
Former crewmembers rode on the ship, while a parade followed them to Pier 86.
Dad served from 1957 to 1959.
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2008-09-20 - Alan turns Forty
The world celebrates having Alan around for four decades.
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2008-06-01 - Foong's Broken Leg
Foong broke her leg while riding a bicycle, so we spent the next
several weeks recovering.
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2008-03-21 - 500 Caches in 500 Days
I found 500 geocaches in just under 500 days.
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2007-08-25 - New (old) WaveRunner
By being at the right place at the right time, I became the
proud owner of a 1993 Yamaha WaveRunner (yes, it still runs).
This is one of the two happiest days in a boat owner's life.
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2006-11-30 - New job at Tekelec
With the success of the TMIO oven project behind me,
it was time to find a new technical challenge.
Tekelec
has some really fast networking gear that needs some Linux TLC.
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2006-11-11 - Geocaching
My two girls and I found our first
Geocache.
Momma came along for our second one.
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2006-09-30 - Private Pilot's Certificate
After a year of lessons, I passed my private pilot "check ride".
Now I can travel to any public airport in the country, daytime or night,
and I can carry passengers. Who wants to go for a ride?
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