“I Coulda’ Had a V8” – Social Media in the Real World
It’s been a while since I’ve dealt with the substance of Social Media. There’s a reason for that. Mostly its become that which I always said it would: simply a tool in the toolbox of…
Friday Music Video: Ric Porter and the Sons of the Soil
They’re playing a rare happy hour gig at Ralph’s Chadwick Square Grill in Worcester today from 5-8. Be there, and mention this blog post and your first beer is on me. Limited to the first…
A Day at the Beach
Misquamicut Beach was more crowded than I’ve ever seen it. The state beach closed early and word was out there wasn’t a grain of sand to be seen between the blankets. the girls had a…
Friday Music Video: Summertime
For me, the definitive version of a song covered more times than a Senator’s gluteous maximus. Janis at her best…evoking at once both hope and a unique sense of loss that the other artists fail…
How Google Will Ruin the Cloud
I really enjoy having access to my stuff in the cloud. Docs I can pull down anywhere, anytime, mail that isn’t tied down to a single machine, etc. Unfortunately, there are problems with the cloud,…
Updated to WordPress 3.0
Nothing major, just did a quick backup then hit the upgrade button. While things may have changed significantly in the backend code, there really isn’t much to show you here. WordPress MU (the multiblog variant…
Thoughts on Hitting the Half Century Mark
It’s official, I’m now 50 years old. So get off my lawn, ya darned hippies! Get a haircut! The transition to “grumpy old man Cahill” is now pretty much complete. In addition to a new…
My Open Source Web Dev List
Here is the list of stuff I load onto my machine right after firing it up for the first time: 7-zip – open source package for handling zip, tar, gzip WinSCP – ftp, scp, sftp…
Random Thoughts
A bit of randomness…since I’ve been working like crazy the past two weeks. Once again we have a foiled terrorist attack and the media immediately blames the usual suspect, middle age white guys. Talk about…
History Channel tackles “America The Story of Us”
I’m an unabashed history nerd. I love history, and I’ll admit I’ve had a real chip on my shoulder for the History Channel for the past two years, since they stopped doing history and started…