My DSL connection was dead for about eight hours this morning (a problem with a switching station, I think).  I was at work and couldn’t connect to my home server.  I hate when that happens.

The Ass-Hat of the Week award goes to Hampton Academy Junior High Principal Fred Muscara for kicking a student out of a school holiday dance because the young boy was wearing a Santa suit.  I’m very much for separation of church and state, but this bullshit has gone way too far.  The full story [...]

I rip all my CDs to the computer because it’s so much more convenient.  I can play anything I want without having to dig through a stack of disks looking for the one I want.  I can also access my music collection from work since I’ve set up my server to stream tracks which I [...]

Usually any mention of the DMV (at least here in California) is followed by a long string of expletives that I won’t repeat here.  I’ve had more than my share of problems with that government agency.  Now I’d like to congratulate the DMV on a job well done.
You can now register your vehicle online.  [...]

I’ve dumped MoveableType and switched over to Wordpress for my blogging software.  At the same time, I implemented an entirely new look.  It’s not quite done yet, but it’s close.

Last week we switched our ecommerce website from a 4-processor shared system to a single processor dedicated system.  Because of some customization we require to improve the site, the switch is necessary.  I looked at the specs of the proposed system and gave it the go-ahead after insisting the memory be increased from 512Meg to [...]