It was a grit-your-teeth kind of week.
The task before me seemed simple. Install backup software on a server so that we can back up our other servers to our Overland LTO2 tape jukebox.
Well, the software we spec'd out was BRU, from Tolisgroup. We needed to install it on …
I just finished reading Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis by Karen Horney.
It's one of the seminal books in analysis and therapy. I really found it full of insights and recognitions, both pleasant and unpleasant. I'm not really one for "self-help" books -- most of them strike me …
The Internet is everywhere.
Perhaps I already knew this -- everybody knows this -- but it was brought home to me tonight in a little village called Pandrup, in the North of Denmark. The village is lovely, and surrounded by green fields and windmills. (Some of the old-fashioned Cervantes kind, but mostly …
If you want to know why I've been MIA from this blog, Dakim has something to do with it.
I've been with Dakim full-time since August 15. We're making touchscreen devices to help mentally stimulate people with Alzheimer's Disease. There's much about this I can't talk about on the blog …
Here's a lovely short, short story, posted as a rant on CraigsList New York:
I'm concerned about Apple's move from PowerPC chips to Intel chips for their processors.
Geekable says "The Apple-Intel announcement makes me feel very uneasy. My first problem with the whole affair is that Apple will now be considered a generic PC vendor." As far as I can say, who cares …
Story from the Washington Post:
California National Guard Sgt. Greg Ford [is] a former state prison guard and Navy SEAL team medic whose complaints were dismissed by the Army in October 2004 as lacking sufficient evidence...
[Ford] complained that he had had to resuscitate abused detainees and urged the unit's …
And by "gay agenda" I'm talking about the Republicans. What's their obsession with gay sex? It seems obvious to someone as dumb as a chimp that it's just about picking on a convenient target.
I've been trying to figure out how any of this makes marriage or family or apple …
There's an excellent article at DrunkenBlog showing a damning pile of evidence that the commercial product CherryOS contains stolen code from the PearPC project and a number of other open-source projects. (Ed. note: Broken links in the previous sentence have been removed.) What's more, their marketing claims appear to differ …
I went to see Tartuffe last night at The Actor's Gang with Becca H., Rick P. and Megan. Becca's trip back to LA was the impetus for the show -- I'm not the biggest Moliere fan in the world, and I didn't really have my hopes up about the show.
I …