Ahhh, what memories! The days of Raid Over Moscow and Omniwriter and Ultima IV…

Double-siding floppies by cutting a little notch into the plastic…

BBSes, fidonet…. Ohhh…

*sniff* Oh, so many *sigh* good…

*blows nose* memories…

![The Public Radio Talent Quest]()

Okay! I did it! I entered.

I put myself up as a contestant in the Public Radio Talent Quest.

Here is a copy of the text from my submission:

Today, Selected Shorts brings us Literature &
This American Life brings us Biography, but
Theatre is sadly missin...

As you may have read earlier, during that onslaught of rain, my home proved to me that it was lacking 1 vital thing — a sump pump.

So, I got one at Home Depot, brought it home, and got it working. Favoring expedience, I set it up to drain to the sink in the basement. The set up isn’t pretty, but i...

The SUN reports:

DR Who star David Tennant is to quit the show leaving BBC bosses looking for their 11th Timelord, The Sun can reveal. David, 35, will leave in the middle of the fourth series. The Scot is still filming the third series of the sci-fi favourite, which is set to be shown in the sp...

Who knows, maybe one day I will actually get to the point where I can post things as they happen instead of waiting until things have calmed down a bit. Maybe, when I can do that, I can actually capture the feelings of the moment instead of the wondrous 20/20 hindsight that my journal seems to usual...

Leopard seed 9a410 unified UI
Originally uploaded by shrimpdesign. I saw this on Flickr and just had to comment. As many of you know, I have written themes for OSX. And, I can tell you how this was most probably done:

The file Extras.rsrc still kinda works in the betas for 10.5 although, I h...

Downward facing ones anyway (the Dogs that is (or should that be “are”?))

I haven’t been posting about this (in no small part because it makes me feel old) but I figure the best way to deal with that is to dis-empower it by talking about it…

STATEMENT OF FACT: I am not as young as I used to be.

You have probably noticed that I redid the sidebar on the site. I was reading up on Google Site Optimization and I figured that I could test some of it out here.

I do need your opinions on this though:

Do the ads fit the site? I can remove the ad-blocks altogether. They are not that important. E...

Why is it that even when I plan everything out and am trying to be responsible, simple, unhealthy things pop up to tempt me. No, I am not talking pizza or other cheesy, gooey, savory things. For months, I have been realigning my life to be healthier.

Better food, better environment, more exercise,...

I’ve decided to join the local CSA, Mountain View Farm. It’s part of my slow march toward better health. I don’t do as well with severe change as some. So, instead of abrupt diet disruption, I’ve opted toward replacing foods in my home as they run out with healthier alternatives one at a time as t...

So much change and so little time to breathe and assimilate anything…

• My car was stolen.
• I bought a house.
• I moved.
• After a lot of consideration, and thought, I have left teaching. And, I don’t see myself ever going back into a K-12 classroom as a teacher.

• I have started a new job as a...

MacNN | Jobs to get “Rotten Apple’ award without apology

Okay Mr. Jobs… the ball is in your court. Years ago, Apple decided the Education Market was its core business. In these days of iPods and iPhones, you may be forgetting that a huge percentage of your computer business is STILL teachers, form...

Okay, I’m not a teacher anymore. But, it wasn’t that long ago that I stood in front of a classroom and worked my butt off trying to inspire a love of learning. When I saw the title Apple CEO lambasts teacher unions out there on the web, I got worried.

I come from a long line of Union Reps and or...