Monthly Archives: November 2006

Vista RTM x64 new play thing

Recently, I’ve been playing a bit with my AMD64 box and since I have a Technet Plus subscription with Microsoft, I can get access to operating systems, applications, and other stuff early on.  That’s kinda cool because I am a … Continue reading

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Thanksgiving Travels

This T-day, the family unit decided to venture outside the sanctum and go toward Sacramento and the east.  Unfortunately, we decided to do this the day before T-day so traffic on eastbound US 80 was a PITA.  Stop.  Not even … Continue reading

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This is a test

I’m testing a new blog client. stand by for even more nonsense than usual

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Rest in Peace DaveR

Bye DaveR. You will be missed and your web touched many other webs on this earth. Your friendship meant a great deal to me and I’ll treasure the set of memories I have . I had this feeling late last … Continue reading

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Amazing Changes, Rearranges, Life Balances

I’m always amazed and somewhat bemused by how work flows and goes.  Witness that we just learned we lost our VP of Sales/Channels.  This person meant a lot to our group and was a primary supporter and enthusiastic promoter of … Continue reading

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When Friends Must Leave

There is that old saying “only the good die young” and its hit me here a bit of late.  As we humans get older, its dawned on me that its damned hard to make friends.  Its like some cosmic button … Continue reading

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Question for the Day: Does this difference make a difference

I’m always interested in seeing Dave Sifry’s fascinating reports on the so-called Blogosphere.  I’ve been doing the blogging thing for a few years on a few different pieces of software.  Way back when I worked for Technorati, I used Typepad.  … Continue reading

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Wild Chrooting Action on Debian Etch

I’ve been playing with my AMD64 system and thus far have installed Windows Vista RC2, Ubuntu Dapper Drake and Edgy Eft, and now I topped it off with Debian Etch’s Pure 64 beta.  On either of the first ones you … Continue reading

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Ruminations and Deliveries

Its quite an interesting world we live in.  Witness the fact that my wife and I finally got a “nanny” that comes over on occasion and plays referee to our two bundles of joy.  Its not like either of them … Continue reading

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