The company for which I work is in the information security business. You remember George Orwell’s 1984? The stuff created here is Big Brother v2006 and it’s freaking scary! The office computer is no longer your friend (assuming it ever was) and instead it’s purpose is to monitor everything — including printing, emailing, web surfing, [...]
Happy 4th anniversary to RR…!! This blog was first created in March of 2002 with Movable Type. Eventually, with the 3.0x versions, MT migrated to a pay-per-author structure and mandatory registration with TypePad. I became disillusioned with where the franchise was heading, thanks also to some other significant user interface changes that differed greatly from [...]
Almost two weeks have elapsed since the closing ceremonies of the 2006 Olympics and, thanks to my upgraded TiVo, I have the pleasure of knowing that 74 hours of Olympic coverage still await me during infrequent breaks in my schedule.
Yup, seventy-four hours!
And thanks to the “Save Until I Delete…” feature, I can relive some of [...]
I came up with an interesting best-of list today while importing a few dozen of my remaining albums into iTunes (still have lots more to go!!)
I looked at the top-rated songs in my iTunes library (about 10% of my entire library) and sorted the results by album title. Looking only at albums performed by a [...]
Since I was heading out to grab a quick bite, I just asked two guys in the office whether or not they wanted to join me and walk across the street to Wendy’s. A seemingly ordinary office situation.
Having thought about it later, it struck me quite funny that I had just asked that of two [...]
You can tell a lot about people when you can associate them with a group of disparate items that they handpicked. I like looking at what people have in their shopping charts when they’re standing in the checkout line at the supermarket. Is their cart full of fresh fruits and vegetables, frozen dinners, alcoholic beverages, [...]
It’s not often that “I’m going to see Mr. O’Reilly, dear!” comes up in normal conversation. This is the second time it has popped into my consciousness lately. In case the link becomes unavailable, essentially police found about 80 pint-sized stolen garden gnomes stashed in black plastic bags in Greeley, Colorado. One poor shmuck had [...]
We just spent three days in Disneyland in Anaheim. The first day of our visit was chosen to correspond with the opening day of Disneyland’s many-month-long celebration of its golden anniversary. On the day prior, May 4th, the amusement park was closed to the general public in preparation for the 5th — in reality, that [...]
I know I sounded something like a madman three years ago when I stated that I liked paying taxes. Granted, it’s not actually the process of writing checks that I like; it’s the bit about doing my part for the community at large.
This year, however, I hated doing the taxes. That’s despite the fact that [...]
I switched to Verizon Wireless about a year ago and brought over the rest of the family from AT&T Cingular just days before this past Christmas. I have had no problems with coverage anywhere in the Bay Area until I began working at a company in Palo Alto on the border to Los Altos.
Often the [...]
