WordPress.com, at some point over the past few weeks or so (I guess) started supporting the import of blog entries from Blogger.com blogs. This is fantastic, because I was participating in the maintenance of more than one blogger blog and ever since the move from the old Blogger to the new one I’ve been completely,…
Category: Me stuff
Things to give your Sysadmin for Valentine’s Day
Ok, well, they don’t actually *make* any of these things, to my knowledge, but I was thinking about it today, and thought of this list of stuff that might be cool little thoughtful Valentine’s Day gifts for the geek in your life: A heart-shaped USB key that says “All my love are belong to you”…
Smoke Free, 40 days and 40 nights.
So my commitment to be smoke free is proving much stronger than my commitment to keep this blog updated 😉 Sorry ’bout that. I’ve gained some weight. I’ve done a lot of things to make sure my mind never wanders in the direction of smoking. It’s kind of like a mentality migration. It’s hard to…
Smoke Free, Day 24
Right. So. I don’t smoke. It’s a little depressing at times, but that never lasts long. Right now I’m going through my insomnia stage, which I believe will be followed by flu-like symptoms. I’m already coughing up…. stuff. My guess is I have about another month or so where my body decides to do things…
More good food in NY – Telepan on 69th St.
My sister in-law lives with her boyfriend in NY, on the upper west side. I lived in NY for a while too, and worked there on and off for years. My favorite thing about the city is the food. There’s a lot of it, a lot of different kinds of it, and a good bit…
Smoke Free, Day 5
Well, I think I’m over the hump. Historically, day 4 is a really bad day for me in quitting smoking. Yesterday *did* suck pretty bad, but I’m past it now, and still smoke free. Still lots of cravings, hard to concentrate, fatigued, whatever. Lots of oddball symptoms associated with quitting smoking, but the one fantastic…
Resolutions
I kind of resolved not to make any real resolutions this year. Part of this is because my dark side sometimes gets the sense that my fate is sealed, so why bother? The other part is just that, with me, resolutions are generally things I think up on the first day of the year and…
Ironic Email
I got an email today telling me that two pictures I took while in Portland, OR for OSCON were selected to be included in this application which shall remain nameless, which maps an area and has pictures of the landmarks like restaurants and bookstores and the like. So, I went to check out the application,…
Flying to Paris Tomorrow
Of course, the day before my flight to Paris, there are 21 arrests in England, as Scotland Yard thwarts an alleged terrorist plot involving liquid explosives, and the airlines. On the one hand, I guess I take some small comfort that these people were caught, that they weren’t targeting France, etc. On the other, my…
I once knew a girl…
In my younger days, I knew a girl. She was beautiful, and she was wild. She was not the life of the party, she *was* the party. People wanted to be around her all the time. She could lure complete strangers with a wink and a smile. At some point, I guess everyone figured she’d…