Half Century Mark

September 10, 2007

50 years ago today, 9 months after a snowstorm hit the greater Victoria, B.C. area (or so I’ve been told), I showed up. It’s been quite the ride, so far. An interesting thing to watch as you age are your beliefs and opinions. Some solidify (into concrete, if my father is any indication), and others [...]

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The One Big Thing – In Your Way?

August 31, 2007

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day about what was coming next for her web site. She has a new site design. The design itself is ready to go, and I’d say that the “important stuff” has been moved into it, but not everything. A bunch of older content hasn’t yet [...]

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Those “Other” Questions

August 10, 2007

Today’s the fourth anniversary of Ask Leo!, and that means it’s time to collect up some of the questions that you didn’t see me answer. You’ll soon see why. We’ve got quite the bumper crop this year. As always, every question is a real question I’ve received via Ask Leo! within the last year, presented [...]

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Relic

August 9, 2007

Cleaning out a desk drawer I stumbled onto one of these:

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DirecTV Take 1. Take 2. Take …

May 30, 2007

As I mentioned elsewhere, my 11 year old big screen TV decided it was tired, and wasn’t going work any more. That, of course, accelerated my HDTV education and upgrade timetable. My replacement HDTV is on order. But as I mentioned to Kathy, this is a slippery slope. Programming. Audio. Recording. Etc. And so I [...]

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Geek Wars – Home Wiring Division

March 10, 2007

Inspired by a post by a former colleague of mine I decided to grab the Canon (camera that is) and throw my volley into the “show us your geek” competition. This is what’s tacked up on a wall in a room in my basement:

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Empty Office & Clean Desk

February 25, 2007

We’re having all of the woodwork in our home re-varnished. The time came for my office, which from the following picure you can see is mostly woodwork. We took advantage of having to empry the walls and bookshelves to go one step further and empty the office and move the carpet to a different room [...]

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Finished: Fahrenheit 451

February 16, 2007

Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books I thought I’d read. I’m a Sci-Fi fan, and ate up a lot of the “masters” of Sci-Fi years ago. I started with Arthur C. Clarke (Childhood’s End was my first Sci-Fi read, what a way to start!), and quickly ran through most of the works of Heinlein, [...]

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Reflections on entering day 4 without power.

December 18, 2006

If my math is right as I write this we’re coming up on 80 hours without power after the windstorm that partied on the Seattle area Thursday night. Various thoughts in no particular order…

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On War

October 16, 2006

The typeface was smaller than I expected. But then it would have to be.

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