Fitnessing with Jakob

But sometimes, someone has to cook a lunch. And during that, it’s hard to lift Jakob up and down. So I use another effective method – I put him in this very long cloth, like women of Angola usually do, and then dance a little, back and forth, so Jakobs keeps shaking. He also keeps quiet if dancing is active enough. The lunch was delicious, by the way.

Cooking with Jakob

Thanks to everybody who came to my presentation. It is very nice to have friends like you. Also thanks to my mentor, Borut Robič and to my parents who supported me for all those years. Thanks to mom, Janja and Anica who baked all the cookies for the short after-party in the LALG laboratory. Finally, special thanks to my wife Mica and my son Jakob, who felt a bit of stress in the last days too.

You can get my thesis here. It is titled “Improvement of pfSense firewall with user services” or “Nadgradnja požarnega zidu pfSense z uporabniškimi storitvami” (Slovenian translation). For non-Slovenian readers, the text is in Slovenian language, so probably you won’t understand most of it. However, I plan to translate at least the most important parts into English so it could be used by pfSense developers as well. I’ll make a special page called Papers soon, so all my papers will be there some day.

However, this condition will last one more week or so, so then I’ll finally be able to start working on other things too.

By the way, having this a baby this young (a week or so old) can be sometimes also boring, since he’s only able to cry, sleep and eat (drink actually). It’s not possible to play or communicate with him. So I am really looking forward to be able to do that. =)

Jakob and his parents

It was difficult for us to pick a name for our son (we knew it was going to be a boy, but didn’t want to tell anyone) because with Mica we have slightly different taste regarding names. It was a long process and we mostly made use of idle time in the car while driving, to negotiate. Jakob is a Slovenian translation of Jacob (James in English, Santiago in Spanish) and it also symbolizes our beginning as being a couple. A month after we met (in August 2004), we went on a pilgrimage (well, for me it was a more like long hike) to Santiago de Compostella in Spain. The pilgrimage path is called Camino de Santiago (in Spanish) and is very interesting and beautiful. You can see photos from our journey here.

For more photos of our newborn check our gallery at http://galerija.skoberne.net/v/Jakob.

• With my wife Mica we are expecting a baby. Actually, she or he (we know the gender but are not telling anyone) is probably coming out of Mica next week or so. The “due date” was prognosed as 7 November 2008. Most things are prepared, so we are ready for the major change in our life style. No more sleep.
• I wrote my thesis (Improvement of pfSense with user services) but have not yet defended it. I’ll do this in the following weeks, sometime until the end of november. The thesis is a rough plan on how to integrate end-user services such as jail, file services etc. in pfSense while keeping it as secure as possible. I propose using FreeBSD jails, which is a virtualization layer at the level of operating system (native to FreeBSD).
• I am in the process of getting a new job. Actually, I already got it and I’m starting it in December 2008. Until now I have worked at Infrax d.o.o. and from December on I’ll try to be useful at Viris d.o.o. More to come in December about this.
  
• Our appartment at Merčnikova 1a, Ljubljana, went through some major changes. We painted our living room and changed the floor, so it looks like new. Come and visit us if you want to see it. =)