For the record, I am not in the catch and release camp. I love to eat fish, and the best-tasting fish is one that you’ve pulled out of the water in the last hour. If I have to put back what I catch regardless of its size, there’s not much point in me putting the…

@solcita Our ski resorts are still open. There’s four feet at Snowbird. It’s actually been nice to have a mild spring. #

@marvthegrate thought of you. http://tinyurl.com/6bfsdr #

What you find below is a quote from an email from Jeff Gelbach on the opennms mailing list earlier this year. It’s a very well-stated fundamental fact of life. If you want to build a house that is enormously adaptable and reconfigurable, you do that by making the foundation go down to the bedrock and…

The Move Networks video player used by FOX and ABC for their streaming video doesn’t work with Firefox 3. It still works in IE7, so I am now faced with a choice – downgrade or just use IE7 to watch that video. I can’t find any information about when they expect this problem to be…

I have just upgraded my work machine to Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2. Initial impressions: It sure looks different. Right away I noticed a major change when typing in the address bar – the auto-complete using entries from your browsing history is far better, and someone told me it also searches your bookmarks. It does…

I really like Cringely’s blog. Once a year, he makes 15 predictions relating to various technology fields, and has a relatively good track record. Other than that, he writes substantial columns once a week, and they are always interesting. He’s a staple on my RSS reader. This week’s article is about the energy crisis. I…

google’s new favicon is screwing with my mind. #

@peno working from good would be nice, but I would need an inviolate office room. Don’t have one. # @peno you’d never know it if you asked them directly, but I do like our kids. They cause me a lot of frustration, but that’s OK. # The lead singer of A Flock of Seagulls is…

I was just reading an article linked from slashdot – an interview with one of the top guys at MySQL. The thing that jumped out at me was what he was saying about how the sudden rise of multi-core CPUs and solid-state disk storage affects software design. A database program allows you to store incredibly…

@solcita those sound like Bionicles. #

At my son’s diabetes doctor. So bored. #

On my way to work this morning, I was thinking about the fact that most technological innovations have names that are in English, and wondering what it is about England and America that makes us such a hotbed of innovation. I think I figured it out. I believe it’s mostly one thing – the cultural…

From 6:45 to 7:10, good walk. Outer shin hurts again. Wife thinks it is a stretching problem. # @peno i need to find something for work too. Figure out mrtg daemon mode or cacti. Opennms gets info but UI is clunky for quick bw stuff. #

We ran out of new TV to watch, so we just spent the last hour and a half watching the first episode of Firefly. I less than three this show. Normally we’d just keep watching until the wee hours, but we’re all pretty bushwhacked, so we’ll go to bed now and do the train job…

@cjm2576 I think that most people, particularly males, believe their mother is nuts. # @solcita ouch! Lots of dough! # Today is such an incredibly GORGEOUS day! Definitely going to have a walk tonight. #

It’s a little weird to me that keeping our bodies in prime condition requires that we make them work harder. Machines that we create generally work better if you use them less often, but not our bodies. Yesterday and today, I had a half-hour walk with my six year old. I’m going to try and…

I’m not normally a comment hound, but this time I’d like to hear from everyone. Most days, when I can find someone to come along with me, I will eat out for lunch. If I can’t find someone to go with me, often I will just skip lunch entirely. I never really think of myself…