Archive for the 'Miscellany' Category

On Health, Work and Code

Friday, October 10th, 2008

It never rains, but it pours. So it seems when one is in the middle of a maelstrom of events.
As I mentioned a while back, my wife has been in the middle of a series of health issues. In addition to what looks like a gall bladder issue, she also discovered a painful […]

Audio/Video on Mac OS X

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

One of the many free-time projects that I work on are pirate radio shows for the Barscape forum. At least, I used to. Audio and video tend to use a lot of hard disk space and I ran out on my Compaq laptop some months ago. I have since built a networked […]

Six Word Memoir

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

I saw this at Cyan’s Cities Beneath the Sea blog. Here’s mine.
always. dreaming.
wishful. thinking.
still. here.

Funk You

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Damn, if it doesn’t seem like life can conspire against you sometimes. The timing of just about everything in my life is getting thrown off lately and it’s really bringing me down.
I’d relate it all in exquisite detail, but, in hindsight, it’s all rather mundane. Deaths by a 1000 cuts are not that […]

A General Life Reorganization

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

I’ve decided to improve my life. I’ve let things go. I’m not sure how or why it happened, but it did and it’s time to tie up the loose threads.
I have a presence on 3 different blogging engines. Well, 2 really. I have this blog, which I’ve been devoting to technical […]

Things That Make You Go, “Woo!”

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

(or: A Tale From The Back Side)
(Note: this post is cross-posted from the Barscape forum. FW = FeldWife and mF = miniFeld, my son)
On June 7th, 2007, I was ravaged by a bout of colitis which required a trip to the Winchester Hospital Emergency Room.
It started at 3:30am when I woke up […]

Ping

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

This post will be a disjointed rambling mess because I haven’t been sleeping well. Last night’s dream was weird. I’ll leave it at that.
Some asshole has been spamming my site with nasty porn trackback comments. Investigating this, I discoved another security hole on my site, which I then closed up. The […]

Relief

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

After two years of development, IPS 8.0, Zoran Corporation’s latest and greatest version of their Integrated Printing System, supporting the PCL, PCL/XL, Postscript, PDF and XPS languages, has finally been frozen. So ends a 9 month stretch of intense coding.
With that out of the way for now, I can get back to some other […]

The Winter of My Discontent

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Loss
The past three months have flown by and not in a good way. Leslie Morin, wife of my long-time friend Jay, mother of two boys, Russell and Nathaniel, lost her fight to cancer in March. The news struck us pretty hard. We hadn’t seen or heard from them in quite a while […]

Busy (x3)

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

I’ve been way too busy lately. I have too many interesting projects to work on as well as some upcoming changes in my personal life. I may discuss some of these changes later as time goes on.
Work is very busy and very tedious. I’m about a month behind schedule due to some […]