Too late last night to post an entry. So, this one is a bit longer then.
Three things to talk about.
The first thing is that, with the release of Linux kernel 2.6.32. Broadcom's Bcmring SoC is officially support in Linux Kernel. And my name is officially imprinted as the maintainer of this architecture in Linux kernel's history. :-) I had made 1.2% line of code changes in this version of kernel and ranked 11th, among all the kernel developers in the whole world. I didn't write those code, but I served as the gate keeper and liaison of the open source community and our developers. Broadcom actually didn't not a bad job in support Linux kernel in this release. It ranked No. 4 among all the companies that supported this version of kernel.
We had the Xmas party last night at Radission Richmond. This party is saved at the last moment. It's fun as we got people involved to play games after the dinner, instead of the old casino games. The only issue is that less people were involved in the post dinner games. It would be better to have more people involved in games. like team competition, that would be more fun. Anyway, this kind of after dinner activities are not bad. Ying won the second prize of the lucky draw. Good to her. But, she may have made the biggest joke of 2009, but answering question of how many transistors in our latest released chip. She estimated about 1000, which is a huge joke, as of today's technology, the chip normally has transistors in the order of millions. You can't believe that the answer is coming from an engineer working in semiconductor industry. What a shame. :-(
Went out for shopping this morning and met three friends in Metrotown. What a small village of Vancouver. One is my alumni, one is my classmate in SFU, and one is my coworker. Incidentally, all went to shopping in Metrotown/crystal mall at the same period of time.
I went to SonyStyle store to check out the ebook reader PRS600. This reader is a bit heavier than I thought. The E-ink screen is interesting, which looks exactly like a paper. Anyway, maybe my expectation was a very light weight book reader, or maybe the commercial of ebook readers looks so attractive, I was slightly disappointed about the book reader. But I still decided to get one, for no other reason, just the convenience of carrying around a lot of books you can read. That's the beauty of the ebook readers.
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