I just got the call for voluntary evacuation, and I am heeding the call.
I have time (can't see flames; they haven't crested any hills around me) so I'm packing up essentials and heading to my parent's house. With cats, which should go over wonderfully with the parents.
I'm turning …
I canceled hiking this morning; they are advising Topanga residents to listen to radio and television throughout the day in case the fire department issues evacuation orders. I'm putting valuable papers in my car and getting ready to pack up the cats and computers. I was heading south on PCH …
K. and I broke up a few months ago, and I've been doing the online dating thing recently, with mixed success. Here's some brief notes on the online dating sites I've tried, to hopefully speed other people through this process. I'm 35, male, straight, and live in Los Angeles -- if …
I'm putting together a postinst (post installation) script for a Debian package I created for work. And there's a little C program in there that needs to run as root, but be called by a regular user.
Well, there's a standard way of doing that in Linux/Unix, called setuid …
Super Crunchers, by Ian Ayres, is subtitled "Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart." It's all about the use of numerical analysis, regression testing, and randomized assignment to learn more about a variety of topics, from the quality of wine to the quality of medicine -- and how to …
I'll now be working from home two days a week, and took a work iMac home with me. (Doing coding on my 12" iBook would be too painful to contemplate.)
So last night, and this morning, I did a complete, from-scratch build out on this iMac. I've been building up …
Great article by Kyle Wilson on why software is hard to create:
Talking about a software development schedule more than a year out is like talking about where we go after we die. Everyone has some idea where we'll end up, but those ideas differ wildly, and there's a lack …
This morning I went on a five-mile hike with George and Krystal; we drove to Trippet Ranch, then hiked the fire road up to Eagle Rock. Back down via Musch Trail, where we saw some pretty things, and then lunch and margaritas at Abuelitas. A truly excellent Saturday morning.
All …
One of Dakim's [m]Power devices (located at a client site) wasn't communicating with our servers correctly, and it took five hours and a bunch of people to correctly diagnose the problem.
On the call we had a member of the client's IT staff (at the corporate office), a …
This is the view from my front door. I can barely see across the canyon. Rain FTW!