I couldn’t resist this touching story. If you have not volunteered for a political campaign, you should do it. I am not sure it really matters which campaign, nor which party (well, the results might matter – but the impact on your own life will be good no matter what candidate/issue you help out). It […]
Tagged community, empowerment, PoliticsYesterday and today my co-workers and I moved a big Oracle database from one old Sun V440 (anyone want to buy some Sun gear?) to a newer Sun T2000. I love my work, it’s fascinating to plan minimal downtime, and try to get all the details right on the new server so the users and […]
Tagged oracle, solaris, UNIXA friend who has to be in California asked for photos of the foliage this season, so I have been snapping a few shots with the silly camera in my new iPhone. Gallery Most were shot on or around my house over the past week. Sample from the gallery:
Tagged AutumnI am not in California, but I have been sufficiently inspired by the same deliberate attempt to sow confusion amongst voters there as we saw here in 2006. I am hoping the message gets out to Californian voters and they are not fooled into adding discrimination into their state’s laws. The short version for Californians […]
Tagged equality, rightsNear the end of 1982 I first heard the song “Mad World” by Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears and immediately liked it (and many other Tears for Fears songs), but I was a firm art/progressive rocker at the time and put it well below my favorites of that time (Yes, The Who, Jethro Tull, […]
Tagged Music, OpusOn my way to get Erci‘s car serviced, I captured this image with my iPhone. We are very fortunate to be surrounded by so much beauty. I was very fortunate to be out all weekend with La Belle Compagnie at Colonial Plantation in beautiful Ridley Creek State Park between Philadelphia and West Chester. The sycamore […]
Tagged beauty, living history, NatureFifteen years ago Erci and I got our partnership recognized by the community (we snuck state recognition in several months before the public ceremony). Happy Anniversary my love.
So I am fiddling around with a bit of commercial software in demo form and it looks like it will do exactly what I need the iPhone to do to mostly replace my Palm Tungsten C (finally). As a phone the iPhone is simply awesome. Best sound quality of any mobile phone I have ever […]
Tagged iPhone, Palm Tungsten C, PDAGot to help an old friend get set up at work today, as he is starting as a contractor. Also got to use the rpcinfo, fuser, umount, killall, and mount commands again for the first time in nearly a decade… I love me some UNIX-foo, but NFS still sucks (though it fills the void). Built […]
Tagged geek, Personal, UNIX, workHad a great, if exhausting, weekend with La Belle Compagnie in Charlottesville. Went to Shebeen Pub both Saturday and Sunday for wonderful South African food and pub food. Interesting mix of cuisines. The American History Weekend event was fun, lots of very interested visitors, and weather that got a bit too warm if you weren’t […]
