I have a fairly modest middle-class home. Attached to the main structure is a 14′x22′ family room. This is where we watch television. We have cable television, which means that a coax cable runs from the services closet (cable, water, electrical) across the whole main structure of the house, approx. 33′, across […]

Wouldn’t you know it. No sooner do I write about having the blahs, then my son climbs into my lap, which he hasn’t done in months, snuggles up and falls asleep. I thought those days were done. Perhaps my ability to see into the future is far less accurate than I thought.
I […]

Well, it’s been a while since my last post. Frankly, I couldn’t be bothered to write anything. I’ve been hit with a case of the blahs. Write code? Blah. Write fiction? Blah. Go to work? Blah. Well, I have to force myself to do that last one, […]

The AMC has a club called The Four Thousand Footer Club. This club is composed of hikers who have climbed the highest peaks in the White Mountains. They publish a list of eligible mountains and, upon hiking all of the peaks on that list, hikers can submit an application to join the club.
When […]

Yesterday was the Flags on the 48 memorial hike and, coincidentally, the day of our hike as well. Sunday’s hiking crew was: Ken Guerin, Gary Braxten, Chuck Rowe, Chuck Hacala, Joey Tang.
First, let me say that yesterday’s hike was superb. Absolutely fantastic. The only downer was that the muscles behind my knees […]

I did some site tweakage today. I matched the banner color with the link color and I removed the top binary stream graphic. The remaining graphic, if the browser supports it, scrolls across the page to the left. This was done using a Javascript interval timer and changing the background-position CSS property. […]

New card story in development. It’s only taken me a few months to get started on it.

Well, not quite. It’s more like: kenware… the final migration.
I’ve redirected the old server scripts to point to the effluency.net scripts. Log files have been moved. Everything seems to be working. Hopefully, the scripts in the new space also work.
I’ve rewritten some of my Perl web service stuff in Ruby. […]