I just returned from Louisiana to see my nieces and nephew and to see my oldest niece graduate high school. Rea did so great in her speaking and made us all beam with pride as she racked up award and award over and over again. I think she’ll do well if she keeps up like [...]
Election Year!
It’s election year and we finally have a Repugnican nominee in Mitt Romney. As if his conservative credentials weren’t bad enough one can throw in “Mormon” on top of it all. I think things will settle out just fine for President Obama so I’m not terribly worried. Politics is a nasty beast so one can’t [...]
Time to Go
It’s almost time to split for Louisiana. My niece, Rea, is graduating high school this Saturday in Monterey. While it makes me feel REALLY old for her to do that, I am very proud and happy for her. It’ll be good to see my nieces and visit with them, their brother, and mine. My mother [...]
Quantum Levitation
I ran into this video/experiment a few months back and I can’t remember if I shared it on my blog or not. So for the sake of being thorough I thought I’d go back out and retrieve it; it’s always nice to see it again. First, here’s a brief take on how super-conductivity works: How [...]
Problems Resolved
I’ve managed to salvage what I can from yesterday’s accidental data loss (both from this blog and ZenSpeaks). When you consider the downtime and the amount of data to restore, you cannot help but be relieved. I have taken major precautions to help prevent this from happening again; namely, I’ve initiated some automatic backups of [...]
A Big Screw-up
Well I’ve managed to shoot myself in the foot real well this time. I had moved my two main WordPress instances over to my Linux hosting a few months ago. Linux just plays nicer in the PHP/open-source world and I was validated by an increase in overall performance. This morning, however, I went back into [...]
Downtime
Not that I have a huge following or anything but I wanted to let the few readers I do have know that this site is going to come down briefly as I am moving my blog/site to a different server. Since I am focused primarily with WordPress right now for simplicity and also dabbling in [...]
Mid-World Again
I’m so excited for the new Dark Tower book but still have several weeks of waiting left. I found this Foreward from the author and wanted to share: FOREWORD Most of the people holding this book have followed the adventures of Roland and his band—his ka-tet—for years, some of them from the very beginning. Others—and [...]
TV the Right Way
I suppose Apple and I have made it to third base what with my purchase of an iPhone, iPad, iMac, and now the Apple TV set-top box for streaming. With this device I’ll be able to shoot music & movies to my TV from either my Mac, my iPad, or even my iPhone. The mobile [...]