Phil Chen » Notes

Phil Chen — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:36:06 +0000

I have been training for America’s Finest City Half Marathon and running about 15-17 miles a week with some hiking in between. I sure hope I am ready, the last and only other half marathon I ran was the Carlsbad Half Marathon. As usual first goal is to finish, second is to clock in at a decent time!

Phil Chen — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:25:23 +0000

It’s that time of year when I raise money for the National MS Society via Walk MS! You can help fund research for a cure to Multiple Sclerosis by donating at my fund raising page http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/philchen So if you have some spare moola for a good cause every little bit helps!

Phil Chen — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:35:00 +0000

I have been doing a lot of work with Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing for VMIX Media Inc. so much recently we have started a relationship with Amazon. So far they have been very helpful and working with Amazon Web Services has been great! You can read about our relationship in the Amazon Solutions Catalog: VMIX Delivers SaaS Online Video and Digital Media Solution with AWS

Phil Chen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:53:08 +0000

I had a dream last night that I needed to fix the US Air Forces Stratum 1 server which had a bum Stratum 0 card in order for all their Stratum 2 servers to sync over NTP correctly. Apparently in my dream the world would come to an end, if I couldn’t fix the issue! Somewhere along the lines of things launching that shouldn’t as a result of the time glitch. Why can’t I have normal dreams of having super powers like the ability to fly instead?

Phil Chen — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:39:28 +0000

It’s that time of year when I try to raise some $ for a good cause the National Multiple Sclerosis Society! You can help donate at http://www.mswalk.com/phil

On April 26 at LEGOLAND, I will be joining thousands of walkers at Walk MS 2009,
benefiting the Pacific South Coast Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Phil Chen — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:44:14 +0000

Finished my first 10K down in Mission Bay Park San Diego today, was a lot of fun.
My two week training regimen paid off thanks Julia and good job on your run!

29TH ANNUAL DOMINO’S PIZZA ST.PATRICK’S DAY 10K RUN

My Total Time: 58 minutes 11 seconds a pace of 9:22 per mile
My Overall Place: 1000 out of 1993
My Age Division: 129 out of 190
Link to all results

Phil Chen — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:20:34 +0000

I think the new Amazon Reserved EC2 offering is a great thing for those of us who are trying to migrate existing data center infrastructures into the Amazon Cloud Computing offering, by bringing down the price for good planning. Here is a ZDNET article about the new offering.

Phil Chen — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:10:17 +0000

Going to the San Diego Software Industry Council talk on “Cloud Computing: Impact on Business and Architecture” today. If you are attending make sure to say hi, and we can compare notes.

Phil Chen — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:46:55 +0000

Currently training for the St. Patrick’s Day 10K Run in Mission Bay Park, San Diego. Most of my running has been capped at around 5K so I hope I don’t blow a gasket. Back in the day eons ago I used to run 8 miles a day, but with age comes pain and bad habits, how I miss the days when my body was a bit more elastic… Hope all my hockey and soccer playing helps me out, since I can’t get to the gym as much as I would like to.