where I talk with my inside voice
I hate Charter with the intensity of a thousand suns, and it was with great pleasure that I called them this week and brought our long and expensive relationship to an end. They naturally attempted to keep me with a better offer, and I just can’t help but wonder, if they can afford to tempt me at the last minute,...
There are a number of reasons that I chose to cleave my blog in two. I won’t go into all of the gory details, but if you are reading this it’s because you went to my old domain, and didn’t find what you had come to expect (since 1996), and contacted me to ask why. Welcome to my new home...
Here are links to a couple of web sites I stumbled upon recently and thought I’d share. One is called Fantastic Contraption, and it is completely addictive once you figure out how it works. This will definitely appeal to any engineering types out there, and probably to a lot of others as well. In each level of the game, you...
A couple of months ago, I posted this photo of Noah. We took an old laptop (and I mean *old* — the screen is hanging on by one hinge, and it won’t close anymore) and installed the latest edubuntu load on it. For those not familiar with it, edubuntu is an educational version of the ubuntu Linux operating system. It...
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