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Slices of 2010
January 28th, 2011, No Comments
A lot of people look back on their year in December. I think it doesn’t make sense to look back on a year until it’s done. And then take a little time to let it simmer. That’s my excuse for not doing this until almost February, anyhow. 2010 started with a 3-day ordeal of taking [...]
Backing Up to the Cloud
January 18th, 2011, 37 Comments
I’m recently taking some big-picture looks at how we do things, and one thing that I think could be useful would be for us to back up a limited set of data to an offsite location states away. Prices are cheap enough for this to make it useful. Services such as Amazon S3 and Rackspace [...]
24 hours with Jacob
January 16th, 2011, 2 Comments
Friday, I wrote about the train trip Jacob and I were planning to take. Here’s the story about it. Friday night, Jacob was super excited. He was running around the house, talking about trains. I had him pack his own backpack with toys this time, which were — you guessed it — trains. Plus train [...]
Looking back at 2010: reading
January 4th, 2011, 1 Comment
A year ago, I posted my reading list for 2010. I listed a few highlights, and a link to my Goodreads page, pointing out that this wasn’t necessarily a goal, just a list of things that sounded interesting. I started off with Homer’s Iliad, which I tremendously enjoyed and found parallels to modern life surprisingly [...]
Alternatives to Delicious
December 17th, 2010, 19 Comments
I’ve used Delicious (del.icio.us) for some time now for managing bookmarks. I have never really used its social features, just its management features. With word that it is closing (sigh, just after I had to leave Bloglines, too) I’m looking for something else. There are a somewhat bewildering array of new options available, and I’m [...]
KR0L: Amateur Radio, Wikis, and Linux
December 17th, 2010, 10 Comments
Since I got my amateur radio license back in July, I’ve had a lot of fun with it. It’s a great hobby for anyone technically-inclined or anyone socially-inclined, and between those categories that includes a lot of people. I’ve learned quite a bit over the last few months and really enjoyed it all. I passed [...]
Game Suggestions?
November 23rd, 2010, 26 Comments
I’m not an avid gamer, but I do occasionally enjoy playing video games. I sometimes have time to do so over the holidays, so I’m looking for suggestions. I have a PS3 and a PC available. Thinking about what I like, most recently it seems to be immersive world games: Oblivion, Dragon Age, Mass Effect [...]
The TSA: Stupid, Owned, or Complicit?
November 17th, 2010, 5 Comments
I have long been in Bruce Schneier’s camp, thinking that the TSA is a joke: nothing but security theater. A few recent examples come to mind: In the famous recent event, a man refuses to go through the backscatter machine, and then refuses to be groped. They tell him he can’t board the plane, take [...]
Misc. Jacob Tidbits
November 15th, 2010, No Comments
A few random other thoughts about our recent experience with Jacob. Doc: “You should know I’m making this up as I go. There are no studies about kids that survive being driven over by a tractor because it doesn’t happen. Jacob is a sample size of one.” — Jacob: “I slept at the hospital last [...]
A Scary Day, and A “Walking Miracle”
November 8th, 2010, 18 Comments
I had been planning to write today about my great uncle Milt Goerzen. Milt passed away last Thursday after a long struggle with dementia, and his funeral was this morning. I was there, and was inspired by a few things I heard. But that will have to wait, because today brought one of those few [...]
