I miss the days when server software was written in PL-1 or C and carefully run through Purify software to check for memory leaks by competent, and conscientious programmers who actually deserved and earned the term software engineer. These days I spend far too much time managing rolling bounces of crappy Java servlet code because […]
After one week of being miserably sick, and then a week of slow recovery while still coughing a lot; with weekends doing living history stuff I have been unable dance from April 6th until the 23rd… Yikes. I managed to finally get into the Tyson’s studio on Wednesday night and again last night and I […]
So I did a little forecasting along the remaining primary schedule for the 2008 Democratic nomination process, and it gets a bit ugly…. Here is one of many possible scenarios on how this will play out. Today Obama has 1719 delegates, counting 232 super delegates, and Clinton has 1586 counting 255 super delegates. He needs […]
This is now a repeatable bug. Everytime Time Machine tries to back up my MacBook Air (OS X 10.5.2) to our Time Capsule (v7.3.1) over our wireless network, the MacBook Air suffers a catastrophic crash (entire OS, the kind where you must press and hold the power button to reset the machine). Time Machine backups […]
I predicted a Clinton win in Pennsylvania, but only by 6% a month ago… so the 10% margin this morning is disappointing. I blame ABC News and that horribly moderated Republican talking point trap last Wednesday night. Television audiences are still huge compared to newspaper, radio, blogs, and campaign rallies. Even though it was a […]
I just cut my tab feed for washingtonpost.com because their site has resorted to pop-under advertising. Pop-up advertising is annoying as hell, but at least it is honest and ethical. Pup-under ads hide in the background, behind your main browser window and try to trick you into clicks and options that are less than honest. […]
I am no expert on life, clothing, history of the American Revolution; but to my eye this “John Adams” miniseries on HBO looks fantastic. Costumes look right, the music feels right, the acting is spectacular, and the events appear to be dealt with more honestly than my schooling treated the same events when I was […]
Due to the expected full day of rain, we packed out of Marietta last night and came home dry. It was very warm yesterday, and my voice totally gave out, but it was a lot of fun for all. Unpacking dry this morning, yippea. As sore as my calves are this morning, it is probably […]
Just rubbing it in a little, for the past 137 miles (since I last filled up) I have averaged 55.5 miles per gallon in the 2006 Prius. It helps enormously that the weather has been calm enough to run with no heater and no air conditioning.
From 11 to 4 both Saturday and Sunday of this weekend, there will be dozens of living history and battle re-enactor groups gathered at Marietta Manor, in Bowie, Maryland for a timeline event. If you have any interest in history, swords, guns, historic clothing, the lives of people in other times; if you want to […]
