Apparently much of my email from the weekend has gone into the ether…I’ll try to reconstruct later. Also, for those trying to contact by phone, it pains me to relate the untimely demise of my cell phone, which was the victim of a Sunday afternoon trip through the rinse cycle of the Maytag. If you need me by phone, try using 4092 instead of the standard 4091 for the last 4 digits. Of course, I’m in a building which is…
From InfoWorld… To my knowledge this will be the first time a software company reaches out and forces consumers to update their product. Apparently MS is worried enough about security issues in IE6 that they are going to force an update to IE7. My general feeling is that it’ll be a good thing to get everyone up to date on their browsers, and it ought to hasten the day when IE6 is but a memory. Frankly, the only people who…
Cortez the Killer – this one’s been in high rotation on my Ipod for about a year. From the Jammies last year. Grace really had a break out year, and we can really expect to see some great stuff from her in the future. My daughters both think she’s “even better than Hannah Montana” which is high praise for a pre-teen. Cortez The Killer
An interesting move – and for most of you thinking “this doesn’t affect me” I can tell you you’re dead wrong. You see over the past couple years, MySQL has become the back end database for a good deal of the web. If you’re CEO doesn’t have his own Gulfstream, chances are that some of your mission critical applications and quite probably your own website is using MySQL for something, if not everything. I’ll withhold judgment on the whole thing…
In a follow up to my post last week about fellow St. Johns High School Alum Andy Olmsted (whom I undoubtedly crossed paths with, but didn’t personally know), his friend Hilzoy relays the families wishes for donations to: Capt. Thomas Casey Children’s fund P.O. Box 1306 Chester, CA 96020 It sends a shiver down my spine to think that the family has asked for donations to go to the charity of a man who served under Major Olmsted, who also…
About 6am the power went out in El Casa Grande – and it’s just come back. The the classic scene was my 8 year old walking into the bedroom with the controller for the PS3 with a forlorn look on her face. I had everything packed up ready to take kids and computers to my moms where there’s power and internet, when the lights flickered back on to the cheers of the kids. The take away for me is how…
Andrew Olmsted, an Army Major, fellow St. John’s High School alum, and blogger reaches back from his untimely death to with reassuring words. My best wishes to all his friends and family… This is an entry I would have preferred not to have published, but there are limits to what we can control in life, and apparently I have passed one of those limits. And so, like G’Kar, I must say here what I would much prefer to say in…
At the T-Bone Walker Tribute – playing “You Don’t Love Me” Wikipedia Duke Robillard Band Site
After a long (and still on going, but thankfully, via Webex Access Anywhere now) project in DC, and a few days off, I’m back. I’ve got a touch of computer claw going on today, due to a little overindulgence in Guitar Hero III and Lego Star Wars, on the new Playstation 3 that Santa brought. So now the tree is down (removed at 3pm Xmas day, by a wife who had her fill of Xmas spirit), and I’m back at…
Kind of jerky, with mediocre sound quality, but hey, it’s Led Zep back from the grave to rock you with Kashmir… Rumors of a tour for the spring/summer continue to roll in…and since cell phones and cameras were restricted at the show, I’d expect to see a dvd release soon… Dig Deeper: Wikipedia Google News – Led Zeppelin