I had my first taste of jumping from a diving board into a 15 feet pool! Yeah!

Fifteen minutes into the class, while we floated around in the shallow pool, scissor-kicking and stuff, Mary surprised us by saying that we were going to be moving to the West side pool and jumping from the diving boards! There was obviously apprehension and sounds of nervousness around the pool. After all we have been trying to learn swimming only for 6 weeks! Are we ready for the deep pool? What if?

There were at least 10 trained lifeguards-cum-swimming assistants in the west-pool when we …

We had a wonderful Open HA Cluster Summit at the Marriott Hotel yesterday 31st May, 2009.  Dr. David Cheriton gave a very interesting keynote address. We had about 170 registrants though I believe there were about 135 participants at the keynote address. Irene Israel, Jatin Jhala and others did an amazing job of putting this conference together. It was heartening to see interested engineers show up and attend the session on a Sunday! It was nice to meet members of our very active community Marcelo Leal and Piotr Jasiukajtis.

Today we announced the release of High Availability Cluster software for OpenSolaris …