Sorry, I can’t help it, the other theme was too busy, and I felt guilty about it almost every other day. (I didn’t think of it every day, or I would have every day.) I like this one. It’s much more my style — though nothing is ‘technically’ my style since I haven’t ever [...]

IMAGINARY, NY — Associate Pressed
Three adolescent members of the Imaginary Neighborhood Watch were slapped with a court injunction today barring them from presenting their findings about the locked status of the Mrs. Fanny Frankenwilder’s back door. The three had planned to present a litany of possible exploits for such a door lock state at [...]

This evening started out disappointing, but here lies the key to a simple, relatively safe hack that helped me. I’ll start at the beginning…
I was so stoked today when my new 24″ monitor came in! A Soyo 24″ Widescreen 1920×1200! Nothing fancy of course, but it was a whopping $200 at geeks.com. First thing [...]

I know this isn’t par for a programmer’s course, but oh well. This started off as an email I sent my brother, and I’ve added a bit and well, here it is.
The other day I went for a run in Downtown Tampa. I intended to be out for, oh, like 30 – 40 [...]

Before I begin, I’d like to point out that I like open source. I use it and I contribute to it. I think the educational value, and the practicality of it in lots of situations warrants its existence, as we can see because it still exists. I relish the fact that both open source [...]

A good friend of mine went to India recently. I’ll let his commentary and the picture he brought back with him speak for itself.
“While in India recently I visited a temple in a town called Kalahasthi in Andhra Pradesh. This photo was taken around 7:00pm under heavy street lights (see the lights in [...]

Ok I’ve had it with SuperDeluxe It’s too much funny, smartness in one place. I can’t take it. It’s sucking my humorous response enegry reserves to the dregs. If they put out one more episode of [(Layers)] or the Maria Bamford Show, I may never write another line of productive code again.
I actually [...]

Ok, I’m a sort of almost a blogger, and I write things that sometimes roughly resemble blog postings. I admit it takes a certain level of vanity to do that. I like to think I’m not being too ridiculous, and I admit that I only have a very narrow crowd of people who even care [...]

So, Windows Vista is in RTM. I’ve been sort-of working on it now for a little over a week. I’m starting to get a feel for what it’s about.. and some of it I don’t like.
When you are learning to drive a car in a new place, you have to [...]

Hah! This is one for the record books or something… I’m maintaining a production SQL Server 2000 host with about 20 databases on it. None of them are huge or anything, and the hard drive the data and backups live on has about 120 GB free at any given time… Last night during [...]