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Jury Duty, finally over

Posted on: Friday, October 3rd, 2008 in: Misc

I just spent three weeks empaneled on a Federal Jury.
The case was about a stock option grant at MacAffee/Network Associates for which the date/grant price was changed in some way back in 2000. It was never sold, but it belonged to the VP of Legal Affairs at the time, and over the course of […]

Oh, more excitement! Jury Duty!

Posted on: Friday, September 19th, 2008 in: Misc

You know, I’ve got a lot of stuff I would like to do. Unfortunately, stuff keeps getting in the way. First, there’s things like helping to launch a mobile device platform. Then, there’s taking care of our little angel (and yes, that site is sparse, because I don’t have the time to […]

A new roomate

Posted on: Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 in: Misc

I’m sure that my tens of adoring fans out there have noticed that I’ve been a bit quiet of late.
It would be tempting to be able to blame this on the fact that we’re working like mad trying to ship some software.
However, the real reason, at least for the last three weeks or so, has […]

Never gonna give you up!

Posted on: Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in: Misc

Rick Astley is making a comeback.
So far, more than 13 million people have been tricked into watching Astley, propelling the singer to heights of celebrity he surely thought had passed him by. Riding the wave, his record company are now releasing a greatest hits collection amid talk of a UK tour
As one of my coworkers […]

Tibet and Torches

Posted on: Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in: Misc

Tibet, to me, has almost always been a dimly-known place. It’s not like my high school education spent much time talking about (or India, or modern China, or much about the Soviet Union, whose wall was falling at the time). I’ve read “7 years in Tibet”, of course, and I’m pretty sure I […]

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