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Ten years ago I had a job interview with SGI, and afterwards went on a first date with Carmen. I didn’t get the job, but I did get to meet a marvelous woman, and in 2000 I made her my wife. Her patience, kindness and humor all work to make me a better man, and […]

Where your host introduces you to his brother’s venture Webranger Nostalgia Broadcasting, reviews the Iogear MiniView 2-port KVM switch, gives his brief thoughts on the movie The Grudge starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, and tries installing three different Linux distributions in a weekend, only to end up back where he began. Other cool items mentioned: Roger […]

My website was offline yesterday, I’m trying to debug a network problem. It may experience some additional problems today. I’ll try to settle it down in the next 24 hours or so.

I’m getting hammered enough that I thought it might be prudent to install some software to figure out just how hard I am getting hammered. Voila, courtesy of rrdtool and SNMP. I started downloading an ISO image, which is why the green line peaks up so high, but the perilous bit is actually the blue […]

On short notice, my wife and I have decided to participate in this years Memory Walk 2004, a fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association, which takes place this Saturday at Treasure Island. If anyone would like to make a donation by sponsoring us, and/or would like to join us for the three mile walk around Treasure […]

Where IT downsizing claims another victim, the Angels victimize the A’s, and your host anticipates the creation of a new machinima series called The Strangerhood. Oh, and for Dan Lyke here is an ogg encoded version of my program.

Consider all the powers of 2: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, and so on… The unit digits follow the progression 1, 2, 4, 8, 6, 2, 4, 8, 6, 2, 4, 8, 6… Nothing too amazing, a nice cyclic relationship, and except for the priming 1, all evenly distributed. […]

Wherein your host apologizes for his inept speech habits, reviews the Star Wars trilogy DVD collection, yaps a bit about graphics hardware and Moore’s law, and looks forward to Shaun of the Dead.

Wherein your noble guide to all things brainwagon rants about taxes to support the music industry, on copyrights and patents, elucidates Tom Duff’s musings about Zipf’s Law, and a brief operatic interlude. Some day, um, you know, I’ll, um, stop, um, sounding, um, you know, stupid.

Dave Slusher was musing about a peculiar statistic of his audio blogging experiments: all the commentors appear to be male. That set me to wondering what the statistics of your average blogger was. Luckily, Livejournal maintains statistics that I found rather interesting. Despite Dave’s experience, on LiveJournal only one in three bloggers who chose to […]

My email server has been up for just four days, and is mentioned only in a single post on my weblog. Today I received the first of what I suspect will be many spam emails. Their product? Advancement of your business by direct e-mail marketing. We offer e-mail mass mailing to any country. In other […]

Happy Birthday To You… Happy Birthday To You! Happy Birthday Dear Adam! Happy Birthday To You! It’s Adam’s 21st birthday. He’s officially an adult now, which means that all his mistakes are now his own responsibility, at least in the strict legal sense. Adam, if you are reading this, I hope your mom and I […]

For the moment, comments to my weblog are disabled. This is because I have an IP spoofing spammer who has been hammering my website, posting comments on each and every blog entry on my website. Hey, you, moron, if you are reading this: I have comment moderation enabled. I always did. Nobody is going to […]

Well, here’s my latest installment of audioblogging. Hear my praise for the movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, some ranting about my new PC, and best wishes for those in the path of Ivan the Terrible.

I must admit, it snuck up on me a bit. Tomorrow is the third anniversary of the terrible events in New York, at the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania where nearly 3000 lost their lives. On that morning, I was in my car driving my son and my wife to school and work respectively. […]