Archive for October, 2007

Flock

October 31st, 2007

Gotta say, Flock has come a long way. They have an RC out for 1.0, and it’s pretty great. Everything you like about Firefox, plus all the social networking stuff you could want. I know, unimportant for some folks, but it’s pretty cool.


Thank you, Ars Technica!

October 29th, 2007

Ars Technica is a site I’ve read for years, and loved it always. Other tech sites come and go, but Ars seems to keep me as a reader. Today, I read their review of OS X 10.5, and hosanna! They have a tip to fix my major gripe with Leopard: the appearance of the Dock. [...]


Sadie Patrick Teasley

October 29th, 2007

4lbs 9oz, 17″ long, b. Oct 25 2:57pm Welcome, Sadie.


Healthcare

October 21st, 2007

I’ve spent the last 24 hours thinking of little besides Patrick. It’s hard to think about how much I’m going to miss him. One of the things I have thought about is that our society is insane in not providing healthcare to everyone. People with life-threatening diseases in places like Canada do NOT wait in [...]


My best friend

October 20th, 2007

My best friend Patrick passed away today, after having fought esophageal cancer for the past ten months. He was 39 years old, father of three lovely children, a husband, a teacher, a passionate Patriots fan, a big goofball. I can’t believe it. This is not how things are supposed to happen.In college he looked like [...]


Our Democratic representatives are stupid

October 16th, 2007

So, we elected a Democratic congrefs. And they’re idiots. They can’t get anything done, because they can’t break Republican discipline. Every single thing the whole goddamned country wants, they can’t get enough Republicans to break from Bush, who vetoes everything. I expect more strength canniness from career politicians. Fine, you’re corrupt, but be at least [...]


OK, that was painful

October 6th, 2007

The blog is back up. It’s on the new server. It was annoying. I installed WP2.3 on this server, still had 2.2.x on the old one, imported the old db into mysql on this server, and it went blooey. Figured out what I had done, had to upgrade the old server, upgrade the db there, [...]