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Back in May 2004, we stop our first rack at Fisher Plaza (Currently KOMO Plaza). After 14 years, we moved out all our racks and servers from KOMO Plaza. Our new data center is located at next building with 20 times the fiber.

We were the first customer of the building and when we left, we were the last customer of the floor.

Air quality is not good at all in Western Washington ... I think we need some rain.

Did you know Seattle is a starting point for many Alaska One Week Cruises?
In the summer, you see many large cruise ships.

It was little smoggy (smoky) today with all the fire in Canada and Eastern Washington. I shot 88 today. It was grid enough to be counted as a handicap round.

It finally went under 13.
It has been a long way to get back to where I am now.
My target is to break 12 this year.

Company BBQ Today ...
Nice!!!

If you buy a list from outside and blast email out to those email addresses you are SPAMMING. There i something you should know about SPAM.

United States

In the United States, most states enacted anti-spam laws during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Many of these have since been pre-empted by the less restrictive CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 ("CAN-SPAM").

Spam is legally permissible according to CAN-SPAM, provided it meets certain criteria: a "truthful" subject line, no forged information in the technical headers or sender address, and other minor requirements. If the spam fails to comply with any of these requirements it is illegal. Aggravated or accelerated penalties apply if the spammer harvested the email addresses using methods described earlier.

A review of the effectiveness of CAN-SPAM in 2005 by the Federal Trade Commission (the agency charged with CAN-SPAM enforcement) stated that the amount of sexually explicit spam had significantly decreased since 2003 and the total volume had begun to level off.[27] Senator Conrad Burns, a principal sponsor, noted that "Enforcement is key regarding the CAN-SPAM legislation." In 2004, less than one percent of spam complied with CAN-SPAM.[28] In contrast to the FTC evaluation, many observers view CAN-SPAM as having failed in its purpose of reducing spam.[

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam

This just makes me sad that we designed 2018 to 2019 mouse pad with wrong phone number printed.

I took this video driving on 520 Bridge from Seattle to Bellevue ... Usually you can see Mt. Rainier in the distance.

I learned from my swimming coach that the way to swim faster is not anything to do with stroke faster or kick more ... It is to reduce drag. It used to take me 13 strokes to go 25 yards ... by just concentrating reducing drag, I was able to reduce that to 10 strokes. That is 25% improvement. I swam faster and smoother by stroking slower.

Do you think there is a lesson to be learned here that can be applied to your business?