As part of a running series, I’ll talk about some things that we pretty much couldn’t live with during our stay here in Australia. I would say that the first in this list is my Kindle — it lets me get my U.S. periodicals here down under and it lets me buy books that I [...]
No, really, I mean it. For a long time, I’ve been one of those rather pragmatic people who dismissed e-Books. They’re expensive, and it’s hard to be much more convienient then paper. Paper is cheap. It is durable. It is pretty easy to read. Ever since Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type, it’s been pretty hard [...]
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re connecting to my virtual instance at Slicehost. Nothing really notable about this, but it’s just another step in getting moved. This is partly a test. At this point, I think that all of the basic websites and blogs are in place. I think that Meathook Reality has some [...]
I’m finally getting around to moving a lot of my sites off of the machine under my desk in the office here in the apartment in San Mateo. There’s a couple of reasons, not all of which can be revealed right now. Anyway, this means that access to this site and others should be faster [...]
Phun is one of the neatest random things I’ve seen come across my blogs in a while. Not to sound like a crotchity old fart who’s been riding Moore’s law right on up the curve, but back when I was in high school, this sort of thing pretty much wasn’t even possible, at least not [...]