Happy New Year

Angela and I are spending a quiet New Year’s Eve at home, which is just fine with me, being with her is the only place in the world I would choose to be on any special occasion. As we look back at the tragedies and triumphs of 2004, both personal and world-wide, I hope we…

Lucky

There’s nothing like a disaster happening over the holiday weekend to remind us not to take anything for granted. We are not guaranteed anything in this life, and we should cherish each day for what it is, and consider ourselves lucky to have had the chance to live it. I know, even through all the…

Painless upgrades

Just finished doing upgrades of both the Movable Type installation that this blog runs on, and of the software the forums run on. The new version of Movable Type is aimed at helping with comment spam and server issues surrounding the countless comment attempts, while the PHPBB upgrade is because of a security issue. I’m…

Slacker

OK, ok, I admit it, I’ve been a slacker when it comes to this site. I’ve been extremely busy at work, and extremely busy with holiday stuff that I simply haven’t really had time to think any deep thoughts that would be appropriate for this blog. I’ve been completely preoccupied with technolgy-related thoughts. Of course,…

On a personal note.

Today at work, one of my co-workers mentioned to me that her husband was just “in love” with my wife. Now before you assume this is some big scandal, I should probably tell you that they’re an older couple who we had over to our house as part of a Holiday get together over the…

I don’t get it

You know what I don’t get? I don’t get people who are constantly unhappy with their lives, and never do anything to make a change. I mean, really, if your life is so horrible and frustrating, do something else. Happiness doesn’t just happen, it requires action on our part. If you’re unhappy and constantly complaining…