Semi-annual hacking…
This server has been down more or less continuously for the last 24 hours. It was all part of the semi-annual celebration known as "Hack Day", which is always accompanied…
The danger of knowing too much…
I'm catching up on some reading while I'm sick with the flu. I finished reading "The Da Vinci Code", which was a lot better than I expected. Basically, a mystery…
Living dead…
I'm worn out and tired today. I'm feeling like I'm starting to catch a cold. It rained all day, and my car still isn't fixed. As I shuffled about the…
Some days it doesn’t pay to get out of bed…
I was driving in to work this morning...the usual stop and go on Highway 1. I had just entered the highway and noticed traffic had come to a complete stop.…
The Moon…
We had a full moon last night, and I decided to try some (totally informal) experimenting in "astrophotography" I took this picture with my Canon digital SLR and a 75-300…
FEMA head should be fired
Apparently President Bush has turned FEMA responsibility for the Katrina catastrophe over to a coast guard Admiral, sending FEMA head Michael Brown back home. The tragedy in New Orleans has,…
A few more site theme “niggles” fixed…
As I have mentioned before, I am using a slightly modified version of a theme from Ensellitis here. As per my usual habit, I am always tinkering. There were a…
Office politics erupts
Two secretaries at an Australian law firm lost their jobs a few days ago. Apparently they exchanged a series of escalating emails (read the series of emails from the bottom…
Slashdot changed their RSS feed URL and never told me!
Sigh... I just spent nearly two hours figuring out that Slashdot has changed the URL of their RSS feed. Their old RSS feed URL (http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf) generates a 301 "Moved Permanently"…
Bilbo safe and reasonably sound…
My wife Irene called me on the phone at about 7:00 am on Friday morning. This confused me: I was working from home and thus sleeping in until around 7:30, and Irene doesn’t normally leave for work until about 8:00 am. The morning brain-fog cleared a bit, though, when Irene explained that she was out walking our dog and calling from her cell. She had found a lost dog, and was bringing it home so we could call the SPCA, and could I please get the cats into the house?
Our cats aren’t supposed to be outside, but often a couple, usually Tux and Rommel, sneak out. This morning, however, four had made it out the door. I managed to get three back in, but Bilbo was no where to be found.
