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…
Death to the vacation program
The vacation program is used to make sure that people who send you mail while you’re on vacation or otherwise out of the office for extended periods of time get a reply telling them not to expect to hear from you for a while. I personally have *never* liked the vacation program, because people misuse…
Apple, Laptops, and the outlook for Linux on the desktop
I should make a disclaimer here that I’m professing no real knowledge here. I’m speculating. And partly, I’m playing devil’s advocate. Apple, so far as I can tell, is going pretty much nowhere in terms of server deployments. Oh, they make servers, it’s just that I don’t see them really going very far. However, with…
Blogger out of beta…. and into alpha
So blogger is no longer in beta. In launching their first non-beta version, however, Blogger has actually broken several things, several peoples’ blogs, and generally made a huge mess of things. After being prompted by shiny-clicky things to upgrade to the new version of Blogger, a great many bloggers were greeted with error pages, wrong…
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…
TUX shutting down
I’ve worked for various publishing houses in various capacities. Sure, I write a lot, but I also like to get into the back-end operations when I can. I think publishing is a lot of fun in general. It’s also very challenging. So there’s this company (SSC) that woke up one day and said “Let’s start…
Back to work!
Happy new year, all. Now back to work! Ok, so before I went back to work, I read my buddy’s blog (http://onefreevoice.com), and he started a Technorati Profile, which I didn’t know existed. I went to check it out, and created a profile myself. Technorati Profile Ok. NOW back to work 🙂
Heartbreaking screwup. Don’t do this :-(
What a dope I can be. So I have this board. It’s like, 9″x23″. I need to cut it to two boards, each 9″x10 5/8″. That’s *almost* in half. So, what I did is measured out the 10 5/8, drew a line, lined up the crosscut, and ran it across the table saw. Sounds simple,…
Woodworking Progress, and why I hate plywood and woodworking books
So first, the progress report: I’ve had a few days off due to the holidays, and I got a $100 Lowe’s gift certificate for Christmas. I requested Lowe’s because they have a nicer, and wider selection of wood there for me to use in my small projects. When I get to the larger projects or…