random musings on the path from point A to point B

worst receptionist ever

2011-05-27T13:41:00.000-05:00

Receptionist: "Dewwey, Billem and Howe, CPAs, how may I direct your call?" Me: "I need to talk to Sally please." R: "A lot of folks are out today for the holiday weekend, let me see if she's in." sound of handset against fabric R (muffled, but still intelligible): "Sally are you in today?" Sally (muffled, quieter, but still intelligible and recognizable): "Nope." sound of handset against fabric R

Keeping it Classy Rochester!

2011-05-16T10:59:00.007-05:00

On the way to prom limo stop shopping trip to get Red Bull, AMP, bottled water and condoms. Keeping it classy in #rochmn.

Open Source predictions for 2011

2010-12-30T03:49:00.000-06:00

It was interesting today to read two different takes on a prediction of opensource success in 2011. One from my friend Tom, who was reacting to a post from a peer to his management chain. They both got a lot that I agree with, but I think they both also blew it on a few parts. I suspect for a simple reason: they're too close to the subject. Having a couple years where my paycheck didn't directly

Fall Cleaning

2010-09-03T18:20:00.003-05:00

Some people do Spring Cleaning, I tend to do Fall Cleaning. In this case, this fall I have a bunch of bigger ticket electronics gear to clear out, some of it is still quite viable. (I've been downsizing the home network lately... out sourcing stuff to google, S3, etc.) So before I go post craig's list adds, or eBay auctions, I wanted to give folks I actually KNOW a chance to grab up any of this

Notes from my talk at the Twin Cities SMUG on Pro Workflow with SmugMugPro

2010-08-20T01:49:00.004-05:00

This is a links list for the talk I gave at the Twin Cities SMUG in August about using Photo Hosting by SmugMugPro to sell photos. Photo by Josh Hackney Important caveat: we're going to talk about the tools SmugMug Pro gives you, how you employ those tools is going to be unique to your business model/market.Full notes about what I spoke on after the break. Here's the outline I talked from,

Why men should support the fight against breast cancer

2010-07-29T19:57:00.006-05:00

As I sit here writing this, my son is playing on the floor next to me. He keeps asking "mommie, where are you?". She is off playing poker in support of breast cancer. A cause I fully support. ;)So why should us guys go pink? Here are 3 reasons:1. BOOBS. You're a guy, right? This should be obvious if you like girls.2. Cancer is cancer, and it all sucks. The cure for breast cancer just might save

time to move along for my home raid.

2010-07-27T04:07:00.004-05:00

Back in January I wrote:Now hopefully by then, Drobo will have a newer droboshare that's compatible with the bigger arrays like the S... and connects via eSATA or FW800. And hopefully they also have a larger enclosure (6-8 drives) that doesn't have all the extra enterprise features... or has the droboshare built in.Drobo recently wrote:You told us what you wanted, and we listened.Wow. I'll say

agile company FTW!

2010-07-27T01:42:00.000-05:00

Holy crap I love my employer.Yesterday SmugMug accomplished something that in 10 years at IBM, they never even dared dream of. You see, by some means of reckoning, yesterday was my 2 year employment anniversary with SmugMug. As with any company, that means performance reviews.Mid-day I had my weekly program management meeting with "the management types"... it's the downside to being remote... no

Your interest in the chase is admirable...

2010-05-29T02:39:00.004-05:00

Now that the weather has turned decent, we've been opening windows a lot more. One of the front windows upstairs is right behind a bush/tree that seems to have a birds nest in it. Either that or the birds just like to hang out there looking for bugs (fine by me). So our cat has noticed this.Watching her sit there, twitching her tail and shifting her weight back and forth like she's about to

Crowd Gifting

2010-05-29T02:30:00.000-05:00

ya know what would be really cool? a consolidated gift giving system... crowd gifting.What's that you ask? Let me explain what I mean, by way of an example.I have a birthday coming up. I have been told repeatedly I'm hard to shop for. Several folks therefore have asked what I want for my birthday. I know what I want. But it costs far more than I would ask any of these folks to give me for my

hard drive fail^2, and how Drobo will save me. (I hope)

2010-01-22T12:13:00.005-06:00

So a couple years ago, I had a hard drive fail in my home raid array. The array is a "7 disk" array, with one of those 7 being a cold spare. There is no hot spare, the remaining 6 drives are raid5'd together. This isn't a business critical array, so I'm OK with the small risk and downtime that leaves.At the time I did the same thing I always do when this type of failure happens... I shut down the

iTunes Stats

2009-11-04T11:25:00.002-06:00

(I saw a couple different versions of this float by in the last week, so I combined them into one list.)How many songs in total: 11866, 33.8 days, 64.37GBHow many protected AAC files (purchased DRM'd files): 703, 2.2 days 3.08GBMost recently played: Papa Come Quick by Bonnie Raitt from Luck of the Draw.Most recently added: Lilly Allen's It's not Me, It's YouMost played: Black Horse and the Cherry

pan fried tofu, finally got it RIGHT

2009-11-02T01:19:00.002-06:00

Ok, so I've been trying to get at least one meal a week in the menu with tofu instead of meat. And I've been trying to get a good pan fried tofu... something with a little crunch on the outside and a nice soft inside. Today I pulled that off. This post serves to document HOW.Freeze the tofu overnight, in this case, extra firm.thaw the tofudrain the tofucut into the shrink wrap just along one side

Dear ThunderBird: you're fired

2009-08-22T18:41:00.003-05:00

I've been progressively less happy with thunderbird for a while now. But it's actions after the recent upgrade to 2.0.0.23 have sealed it's fate as far as I'm concerned. It's time to look for a new mail client. Apple's Mail is leading the pack, but I'm honestly open to other options if folks have them.The straw that broke the camel's back? Since the upgrade it has completley hid new mail in my

Dinner Plan: Apricot Tofu

2009-07-19T19:31:00.003-05:00

"Tonight's" Menu*Entree: Appricot TofuSide: Kashi 7 grain pilafSide: Green BeansApricot TofuTake a block of extra firm tofu, slice 1/2" thick, cross cut to bite size squares. Press it well to drain. (Optionally soak it in Apricot Brandy overnight... I've not tried that yet, but will next time I think! :) ) In a small dutch oven (that fits your stove top) warm a small amount of oil (we used

Dinner Plan: Jerk Chicken

2009-07-15T18:26:00.004-05:00

Tonight's MenuEntree: Jerk ChickenSide: Coconut RiceSide: Tropical FruitsJerk ChickenSimple and easy. Cleanup boneless skinless chicken breasts, season with Penzey's Jerk Chicken and Fish spice. I did this yesterday actualy, so they've been in the fridge marinating. I'll mist with oil before grilling, and hit with lime juice just before taking off.Coconut RiceThis is a first time I've made this

update on lightroom corruption

2009-06-20T00:32:00.003-05:00

Since I started noticing the corruption of images in lightroom I stopped purging my CF card. Normally, once I had the images on the raid, and had taken a quick spin through them to make sure it was all there, I would purge the CF card back to empty. But that stopped it pretty quick. Recently I sat down to figure out how many were bad. A quick md5 comparison found nearly 1% of the raws (6 out of

5D mk II - first thoughts

2009-06-18T18:48:00.003-05:00

So I've finally upgraded from a 20D to a 5D mkII. It's quite the jump. :) And also involved upgrading to all new glass for 2/3 of my favorite lenses, since they were EF-S. I've got about 50 clicks on it so far, almost 50/50 split between before/after thumbing through the manual. :) I wanted to capture some thoughts here on my impression of the differences, first the bad.1. The shutter release.

expect the unexpected

2009-05-27T02:30:00.005-05:00

Sometimes you go somewhere with the intent of shooting one thing, only to find something completely different. And sometimes, that recurses a second time... these tend to be the most amazing photo ops.We went to BratFest this year, helped set the record. More about that later. I wandered the midway, looking to shoot kids having fun on the rides. Found a lot of bored kids. Had some awesome focus

yeah, it's a keeper

2009-05-17T22:41:00.004-05:00

That new workflow that is. I took Quinn to the park today... Cory followed along with the 20D, we came back with 89 images. (She took most of them.) Well, 88 in LR... Anyone have an idea why it keeps doing this:The image comes up "fine" in preview and photoshop from the CF, both raw and jpg. But LR corrupted it when importing. I have had about 5 or 6 instances of this so far. Starting to get

time for a new workflow

2009-05-16T23:14:00.004-05:00

So after babysitting my olde homegrown workflow from linux to mac for the last couple years I've decided it's time to give up and move to something someone else wrote and supports. It also doesn't help that my current workflow is not very good with raw, and is currently unable to handle files from a 5D mk 2. Last time I went out to HQ our UX guru at work did a evening session for a few

posterchild for a broken company

2009-03-31T14:38:00.004-05:00

My local cable company has a virtual monopoly on the local broadband market, and they know it. The phone company is not able to compete because their hardware is ancient, even by telco standards. As a data point, last summer when I was looking to upgrade my connection the best DSL I could get here was 'up to' 768k bidirectional, these were the same plans they had been offering for years, and I'm

sad news for foodies

2009-03-16T22:31:00.003-05:00

Today I called Penzeys to renew our subscription to One. Sadly, they told me I couldn't, as there wasn't going to be a magazine any longer. A quick visit to their website confirms that bad news.

you're kidding, right?

2009-03-11T02:02:00.002-05:00

With my new job, I spend a week every three or four months out at head quarters in Mountain View, CA.... for those unfamiliar with the geography.... that's like the heart of silly-con valley. Google, Apple, Cisco, Sun... all have big campuses in this area. There's more startups than you can shake a stick at. And yet, the hotels in the area... worst internet ever. I've been in a super cheap hotel

the 42nd law of parenting (a theorem)

2008-11-09T20:59:00.004-06:00

aka "the law of the rabit pellet diaper."The stench is inversely proportional to the volume.I'm sure my fellow parents know *precisely* what I'm talking about... from the reaking rabbit pellets, to virtually scentless triple blow-outs that you didn't even know were there from a distance.

php fails at the maths

2008-11-04T01:01:00.005-06:00

ugh. I've spent the last few hours fighting a bug that's been driving me up the wall.marchhair:~ cabbey$ php1.59 and 1.59 are equalmarchhair:~ cabbey$ php

it's so very nice

2008-10-30T14:15:00.003-05:00

to not be beholden to a VC or a stock holder.Given the current state of the economy, many of my former coworkers have expressed concern for my stability. I'm touched. But they seem to be missing the big picture. Unlike them, I no longer have to justify myself to a stock holder or a venture capitalist on a daily basis. Now that's not so say we're slacking off. No, we're beholden to the only group

Our letter carrier is better than most

2008-09-09T17:15:00.003-05:00

So I've been waiting for a print order from SmugMug for a few days now. I cheapped out and went with the slowest delivery method. Went to check the mail and saw that the order hadn't come in today's mail taco...But then as I was coming back inside, I saw this:

i shoulda done this in the first place

2008-06-28T01:26:00.004-05:00

So when I got the laptop this spring, I grabbed a new wifi access point to upgrade from 802.11b to 802.11n (draft). After looking at the prices on Apple's base stations I opted for a non-apple solution, and got one of the best reviewed base stations I could find. I intentionally avoided the fancy options, as I just use it in basic bridge mode and let my main linux box to the routing between the

fixer upper?

2008-06-18T00:21:00.002-05:00

I don't recall buying a fixer-upper. But I seem to own one. The microwave/rangehood died the other day, now the disposal is leaking like a sieve. What's next?

onward and upward

2008-06-08T21:50:00.005-05:00

(This is part 2 of a 2 part pair, the previous part was published last week, and details the "why" of my recent job change. This post focuses on there "whereto".)Some have said my current hairdo is a dead giveaway as to my future path. They're right.Those that read part one will know that one of the reasons I'm leaving is the lack of passion for what we're doing in the organization I work in.

Celebrating a Milestone

2008-06-07T00:00:00.004-05:00

I tend to mark milestones in life differently than most folks.When I graduated University and got a JOB at IBM I did my hair in purple for a week or so.When we got engaged and bought the house, I permanently died my hair blue. To this day (6 years later) there are neighbors that still speak of me as "the blue haired kid".Now, I'm leaving IBM and moving along... time to do it again.UPDATE: hahaha.

So long, farewell...

2008-06-03T01:35:00.002-05:00

(This is part 1 of a 2 part post. Part two is up now.)Are you sitting down?Good.I'm leaving the embedded Linux team I've been with for 5 years now....and the Linux Technology Center too....oh yeah, and I'm quitting IBM as well.So far, almost everyone has expressed shock somwhere along that sequence of revelations. Some at the first, some not until the last. Almost universally folks have asked "

Putting your best face forward

2008-05-20T10:08:00.004-05:00

When you're working on a software project that's going to be seen by hundreds of other developers, you'd think you'd want to be sure to keep your product highly polished....

SLES 10 on PPC64 online update breaks sftp

2008-04-25T12:42:00.002-05:00

If you're running SLES 10 on a ppc64 box (IBM pSeries, iSeries; Apple G5) and are tracking maintweb, you might find that sftp recently stopped working, even though ssh still works. The cause of this seems to be that SuSE changed sshd from 32 to 64bit recently. As a result the subsystem has moved from /usr/lib/ssh/ to /usr/lib64/ssh/. The sshd_config was updated, but if you've changed sshd_config

green's ok, I guess....

2008-04-24T20:10:00.001-05:00

Your results:You are Green LanternGreen Lantern 80%Superman 80%Spider-Man 70%Iron Man 60%Hulk 60%Supergirl 52%Robin 50%The Flash 40%Batman 35%Wonder Woman 32%Catwoman 30%Hot-headed. You have strong will power and a good imagination.Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...

bluesky: smugpalm

2008-04-02T23:08:00.002-05:00

Don MacAskill recently asked for ideas on what we want in an ideal iPhone SmugMug app. I'd already started to pipe dream on that topic, so I'll dump 'em out here for fun, 'cause the way my current job is going, I'm never going to get a chance to implement these. I've only quickly looked at the SDK docs... I'm not sure some of these are even doable. And I don't even own an iPhone or iPod touch...

Petition to Apple to support ODF in iWork

2008-02-27T01:58:00.002-06:00

Several hundred folks have already signed onto this petition to Apple to support the industry standard Open Document Format (as used by Open Office and many other applications) in their applications. Since our group at work recently pushed through a mandate to use ODF for all of our shared documents, this has all of a sudden meant I have a bit of difficulty working on shared docs. (non shared

a short journey into the realm of math

2008-02-18T00:15:00.007-06:00

Ok, So my wife plays on a website called "neopets". At first blush this site appears to be squarely marketed for kids. It's constantly full of tie-ins to the Disney movie of the month, the hot toy of the season, etc. Many of the games are mindless... pure and simple MINDLESS ways to waste time. And there are a LOT of them. As the name implies, the whole point of the site is to keep and entertain

yet another "how do they stay in business" rants

2008-01-08T23:21:00.002-06:00

So the wife and I both have sprint camera phones. I have hacked together a simple shell script that is tied into the email system on the home mail domain to be able to send pictures to it from the phone, and they just magically appear on the web. A little while ago, this stopped working. A bit of debug lead to the simple conclusion that no sprint picture mail is making it through to my email

waste of time

2007-12-27T00:04:00.000-06:00

I received 63 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds QuizHow much of a Sci-Fi geek are you? And that was without being able to hear 3 or 4 of the clips over Quinn screaming next door, and there's no working replay.(note, I removed the search engine spamming from the resulting html... last tr in the output html is just an attempt to ballot stuff the search engines and should be removed.)

irony

2007-12-06T19:59:00.000-06:00

TV Predictions has an article about HDNet vs DirecTV: http://www.tvpredictions.com/hdnetd111407.htm When I viewed it, the advertiser was none other than HDNet.

Way to go UPS!

2007-12-05T00:55:00.002-06:00

Man, I don't know how UPS stays in business some days.At least the contents were all soft goods.

paranoia absurdia

2007-11-13T23:40:00.000-06:00

Not long ago I had a hard drive fail in my home raid array. Tonight, I finally got around to filling the RMA to replace it. This is the first step in the process:

interesting leopard feature

2007-10-30T22:57:00.000-05:00

I dunno how they're doing this... but leopard knows how you got a binary somehow. At least I can't think of any other way to do this:So that was accomplished by: download skype .dmg from skype.com with firefox to downloads dir (seen in very back window). mount .dmg (seen in left window) drag skype to applications (via alias in dmg) open applications folder (again, via alias; seen in right window

stringWithContentsOfURL:encoding:error: throws NSDocumentedByMorons

2007-10-14T20:25:00.000-05:00

If there's one thing I am intolerant of, it's ignorance. Especially in professionals. If you're paid to do something, then you had better well be able to do it! The great Paula, er, sorry, the *brillant* Paula, for example would get NO sympathy or appreciation from me.So what then would I do about the folks responsible for the documentation for Foundation Framework's NSString class, in particular

That special project

2007-09-27T00:54:00.001-05:00

OK, so back at the end of august I posted a review of the month, and I mentioned I managed to pull off a "special project" without Cory knowing. Well, she knows now. :)As anyone that meet us around the time of the engagement through wedding knows, I designed a custom ring for her, two ribbons of gold (one white, other yellow) spun around each other with three pockets opened up between them

The tale of the incredibly shrinking beard

2007-09-27T00:14:00.000-05:00

Sigh, it's a sad tale to be sure.I've had this beard since... well... I can't really remember when.I've certainly had it for as long as I've been in MN. I had it in CA for a long time before I came back here... it went through a few variations back there... a full traditional ear-to-ear beard (that itched in the summer, so it didn't last long)... a fu-man-chu like shaped and trimmed to length

HOWTO: warm up milk quick and easy.

2007-09-06T01:38:00.000-05:00

Note that this might work for formula too, if it's chilled in the fridge before use.This is a simple solution that allows me to warm up previously "expressed" (dumb word for pumped) milk that's been chilling in the refrigerator. Usually it's in either small bags that attach to the pump, or in small bottles that similarly, attach to the pump. If I'm on the ball, this allows a minimum of screaming

August

2007-08-30T20:45:00.002-05:00

August has really been a roller coaster of a month. Though the downers seem to out weigh the positives so far. Let's see... August 6th. Cory informed me while I was in the shower that her water had broken over night. She called the birth center while I rinsed shampoo off. They wanted to to lay down for an hour and see if it was just a loose bladder or if her water had really broken. We both knew

Surprise!

2007-08-17T00:31:00.001-05:00

Well, he's almost 2 weeks before we expected him, but Quinn is here and making life 'interesting' for his parents.

The not a registry, registry

2007-06-17T00:51:00.000-05:00

A list of random shit we woulda put on the baby registry, if the store had a better selection and actually carried these items.2x This furniture gate in light oak (get there through uPromise!! 5% back to college fund, plus various deals of the month... for june it's $15 off orders over $100.)lots of these diapers and covers. (We expect to get a handfull of newborn size ones locally from friends

So where's the benefit from test plan charlie for the end user?

2007-05-14T21:51:00.000-05:00

This is a question that has been driving me nuts for a while now.There are lots of stories about various companies using the type of architecture that Boyes set out to validate, but they are all using them internally. Even the company he was nominally doing the validation work for when he did that, Telia, were using it in the back end of a product offering. So where's the application of that same

first time for anything

2007-03-21T21:22:00.000-05:00

Well, this is a first. After living together for four plus years, tonight we finally did it. We fucked up dinner so bad that neither of us will eat it and are going out to perkins. Here's to hoping this isn't the start of something new.

tenative colors

2007-03-05T00:17:00.000-06:00

Mostly just to keep track of them:Kitchen: Glow W-B-310 in K&B latexLiving Room, Upstairs Hall, Entry and Downstairs Hall: Innocence W-D-720 in eggshellNursery (band around the top): Polar Bear 1875 in semi glossNursery: Eucalyptus Leaf 490D-4 in semi glossOffice (band around the top and middle): Polar Bear 1875 in semi glossOffice (above the mid band): Utah Sky 560A-3 in eggshellOffice (below

And so it begins...

2007-03-04T18:53:00.000-06:00

They say baby's come with a lot of "stuff"....Seems to me like we need to get most of it before hand to be ready. And we've been doing all the reading up and studying on various things, and talking to others that have already btdt.First decision was easy: A convertible crib that will expand out of a bed as they grow. We opted for the Ellis style by Simplicity, in Cherry finish. We also got the

slightly delayed

2007-03-04T18:47:00.000-06:00

So this past week we had an ultrasound appointment.The technician and the machine confirmed that the expected date the hospital had chosen was off by 3 or 4 weeks, we're not as far along as they thought. This puts the expected due date right back where we had originally predicted it would be based on temperature shift and a prediction of conception date. That extra month will come in handy this

Dgrin busts out with $25,000 Photo Contest!

2007-02-25T23:06:00.002-06:00

Ok, so the digital grin community (powered by SmugMug) tends to be my favorite online photography community. It's full of nice people, we have good technical conversations, great critiques of others works, very little flame wars, and practically no asshats. Unlike a few other photography communities I can think of. One of the things dgrin has had, for a long while now, is a photography contest.

It works

2007-02-04T22:09:00.000-06:00

Well, CAATT is now "functional". After scratching my head over how to do the scheduler for a while I had a pretty good theory, so I sat down to code it yesterday afternoon. hence the post clarifying some of the design details. At the end of the night last night I had annual, semi-annual, quarterly and monthly recurring tasks scheduling themselves. It was about 500 lines of php code (I choose php

random design points

2007-02-03T19:01:00.000-06:00

I've been working on the hardest part of the caatt system... the scheduler. I had previously left the designations of some of the fields in the database's tasks table kinda up in the air. As I work on implementing it, I need them to solidify, so I'm documenting them here.First off, I added an additional column, sched_skip of type tinyint. This is a convenience scheduling knob for things that are

do what I asked you to do, not what you think I wanted

2007-01-29T00:56:00.000-06:00

Sometimes software is just too smart for it's own good.So as I'm working on coding the client for CAATT I was creating some test data in the database, and I found that my input timestamp keeps changing, even though I'm not touching it.mysql> select * from work_queue;+---------+---------------------+---------------------+------+----------+------+| work_id | input | output

Baby's got rhythm

2007-01-25T16:50:00.000-06:00

yes (s)he does.Had the first (long) appointment today, and at the end, got to hear the baby's heartbeat.So, um, I guess this is for real. So come the end of July/start of August... things they will be changing around here.

un-bee-leave-a-bull

2007-01-22T22:34:00.000-06:00

In case it's not clear from the quality of these cell phone images...that's a running car, in park, keys in the ignition.that's the front door to a our grocery store it's parked in front of.that's not a parking spot it's parked in, that's the ramp up to the door from the parking surface level.there's no one in the car.WTF?!

ring-a-ling-a-ding

2007-01-20T12:41:00.000-06:00

So I finally replaced my ancient Samsung i330 with a new phone, the Katana (in blue) from Sanyo. This unfortunately means the end of my $5/month unlimited data plan, not to mention another 2 years bound to Sprint. But on the other hand it means I have a simple, small, light weight (3.5oz vs 9oz) picture phone that I can trade images and texts with Cory (she's had an MM7400 since we moved her into

One of these is not like the others

2007-01-16T22:03:00.000-06:00

I don't know why this irritates me so much, but it does. Take a good look at this spread, it's pages 6 and 7 of the Sunday comic section from our local paper.One of those entries stand out to you? Let's see, the content of that spread includes (clockwise from upper left:the 4kids.org section, with all of their targeted content for the upper elementary/middle school crowd.Doodles, for the lower

let winter finally arrive

2007-01-14T15:46:00.000-06:00

Officially this is the third snowfall of the year. Officially. I wouldn't know anything about that, having been out of state for all the others.And that picture is misleading, since it was taken at the start of the snow, in the end we got something around 8". And we learned something about our beloved Hybrid.... high torque electric engines, plus low rolling resistance tires, equals mostly

so how does it all come together

2007-01-05T18:54:00.000-06:00

This is the next post in the thread on the chore allocation and tracking tool (CAATT, pronounced like "Kahn!!"). Previously I laid out the database schema for it, I've already put it into my database, and created two users, 'caatt' and 'caatts' which have rights to the database. Here's a dump of what's there:mysql> explain tasks;+---------------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+-----

what's it all about?

2007-01-03T01:32:00.000-06:00

This is the start of a sequence of posts I expect to create that talk about the process I'm following to create a fairly trivial little application for use in our house... the Chore Assigner and Tracker (CAT, until I come up with a better name for it). This is a little application that's been growing in the back of my head for a while now. Many people would start this by designing the GUIs. I

1920 x 1080

2007-01-03T00:55:00.000-06:00

That's the resolution of "High Definition" video these days. Seems kinda arbitrary doesn't it? I mean sure, it's better than 720 x 480, but why stop there? Why not 2048 x 1920? Like I said, it seems kinda arbitrary to the end user.Don't get me wrong, I love HD programming, going back to watching anything (but hockey in particular) on standard definition television is painful for me, sometimes I'd

Why?

2006-10-04T00:45:00.000-05:00

Why not.Over time anyone bored enough to visit here will see some random musings on the topics of:programmingsoftware engineeringstupidityphotographyrandomimpending fatherhoodlife, the universe and everythingI make no promises of it being worth reading, I created this for me to have a place to write, rant, etc.