Goodbye, James…
James Doohan, better known to the world as Montgomery Scott or just "Scotty", passed away on Wednesday. I actually met the man himself once, although only in passing. It was…
Dreaded favicon
Anyone who runs a website has undoubtedly seen it. Hundreds of errors in the logfiles saying "File does not exist: /../favicon.ico" Years ago, someone in the browser world came up…
Gordon Kirkland
When Irene and I were at Harrison Hotsprings last weekend, we noticed a beautiful golden coloured dog laying near where some conference-type people had set up their sign-in table. We…
Another night…another bug
I'm still awake, and its 1:00 am on a work day. Why am I still up, you ask? Well, its like this. The other day I edited one of my…
ACPI and standby
My main personal computer crashed last week, as I mentioned on July 12. I managed to get everything working again, with one exception- standby mode. I had disabled all power…
Gradually re-adding articles
I've started the process of migrating my bigger pieces of content from the old site. For folks who haven't had the pleasure, this includes larger chunks of text I've written…
Getaway…
My wife and I took a little break from real life over the past 24 hours. We went up to Harrison Hotsprings and stayed in a nice hotel there for…
Happy Anniversary!
Irene and I have been married for 15 years as of today. Having Irene in my life totally changed my perspective on things for the better. Thank you, Irene, for…
Karl Rove, your conscience called…
I have this image of Karl Rove, one of George Bush's senior advisors and architect of his re-election campaign, smoking a big cigar (Cuban) and laughing at America. This is…
Pain in the neck
My back hurts. More specifically, my upper back: my doctor said something about C4-5 and C5-6, and spondylolisthesis, which sounds like a kind of fungus. The pain comes and goes,…