I must be dreaming. Three days in a row with no need to close windows nor run the air-conditioning. Gorgeous weather, can it really be August near Washington? Temperatures are still getting up to 90 in the afternoon, but there is so little humidity that it’s comfortable to be active, work, or even exercise without […]
There is something very, very wrong with a society that thinks it is acceptable for police to violently kick down the door to a private family’s home, shoot the family dogs and physically restrain the family while they conduct a search for drug dealer materials or other incriminating evidence, all because a large package of […]
So we wasted entirely too much time trying to figure out a really complex to diagnose bug at work. Turns out that the startup script for NTP v4 hangs hard if there is no networking enabled when ntp is started on an openSUSE 11 system. Because we run our openSUSE servers in a Xen virtual […]
For those of you using Google Calendars and Mac OS X Desktops with iCal, you can finally keep them in sync without any 3rd party software. Google supports CalDav format now. Instructions are on the Google Calendar CalDAV support page. I have mostly been relying on my Palm Tungsten C and Palm Desktop (v4.2.1) for […]
Many websites I am visiting seem slow today, taking 60-80 seconds of wall clock time to load. Ouch. Yet a quick visit to DSLreports.com reveals: 3947Kbps into my house seems to be pretty good, how does that compare with other results out there; it has been a while since I tested. I am really happy […]
Just fiddling about with Wayfaring.com, I started putting together a map of local vineyards near my home. Local Vineyards: Locations we visited in Japan in 2005:
A co-worker saw a license plate frame that said: “My next license plate will be made by Bush and Cheney.” Now isn’t that a pleasant thought? Happy Monday!
I have lent out or misplaced by beloved copy of Maia by Richard Adams. If I lent it to you, please ping me when you get a chance; I’d like to lend it to a friend, who is stuck in the hospital with lots of time to read.
I’ve just started watching Generation Kill on HBO (time delayed on my PVR). Right off it feels pretty much right; I was never a Marine, but I’ve worked with Marines, Army, and Navy when I was in the Air Force and people really talk and act this way. I am not very far into it, […]
