June 6, 2008

Herb's Shrimp in Wine Sauce

A childhood comfort-food favorite. My dad (Herb) used to make this once, maybe twice a year. It was a special treat because meals were mostly low-cost meat and potatoes and boiled veggies, Dad only cooked once in a while, french toast on weekends, crab on occasion (Dungeness crab was relatively cheap when I was a kid, and you could catch it yourself in SF bay), and only when he’d saved up enough to pay for the more expensive ingredients like prawns would we get this.

May 30, 2008

Adventures in Twitterville

Love it… From Hugh MacLeod: http://www.gapingvoid.com/adventures2134A.jpg

May 30, 2008

Stay thirsty, my friends

The ad biz has got to be one of the more brutal industries out there. You’ve gotta come up with something interesting, then do it again, and again. The fact that 99% of ads are uninteresting and forgettable I’m sure is a combination of “group creativity”, where many people need to review, comment on, change, and approve any campaign, taking something that might start out interesting, but perhaps a little edgy, and making it “palatable for the masses”.

April 21, 2008

Rehosted, and rebuilt.

Well, that was an ordeal! I made the mistake of screwing up my wordpress paths while moving some domain hosting around, and at that point, couldn’t get to the admin pages. That kinda leaves you dead in the water. I found some general info on tweaking the SQL databases, but didn’t have any of the SQL tools hanging around, and wasn’t sure that was easily fixed that way anyway. Fortunately, I did still have the old config, and a backup I did make a couple weeks ago, so I think I only lost one blog entry to my mistake.

April 4, 2008

Twhirl features i'd love to see

Twhirl just released an amazing update, it’s now the best twitter client I’ve used. But, nothing’s perfect. Here are some features I’d like (some of which Twitterific, the 2nd best client I’ve used, has). I never did this for another twitter client, it’s just that Twhirl is so good, I want it to get better (for me, of course :-). I’m just writing this to remind myself what I’d like to see, and after they get their legs after integrating with Seesmic, figured I’d actually submit it as a suggestion to them.

March 29, 2008

Email overload

I’m having an interesting conundrum right now. With my new (and very exciting) job at Sun, I’ve got a wide breadth of projects/technologies to be aware of and make strategic decisions on, people inside and outside the company to interact with, and background information to absorb so I can make informed decisions. I’m an email junkie, have been for a very long time. And, with my recent surgery, I’m stuck at home, not very mobile, while my Achilles tendon reattaches itself to it’s new home on my heal.

March 22, 2008

My feet, and a happy healthcare story

This is not a Michael Moore Sicko story… I’d been having progressively worse problems with my feet over the past years. Went through two podiatrists, the last of which had figured out my Achillies tendons over the years had pulled out the bone where it connects, either from being too short when I was a kid, or any other number of various reasons. He was reluctant to do any surgical fixes, but that religated me to less and less activity.

January 26, 2008

Why I love DirecTV

I’ve had DirecTV service since 1996. Its just worked ever since I got it, with a few very small exceptions. It’s like dialtone to me, I often just forget how reliable it is. The very few times its stopped working, 3 times was DVR failure, and 2 glitches with access cards being unauthenticated. The DVR failures weren’t DirecTV’s fault, in all cases it was hard drive failure, fixed by a call to weaKnees for a disk upgrade.

December 7, 2007

My favorite holiday albums

Just doing some work here, with the “holiday playlist” on. Thought I’d share my favorite albums from it. Links are to Amazon, who I have no relationship with other than being a frequent customer. Think I’ll go and put it up as my radio station on mediamaster.com too. Merry Axemas: A Guitar Christmas – maybe my favorite Yule Struttin’ The Jethro Tull Christmas Album Oh, I like a bunch of “traditional” songs and albums from my childhood, and other newer favorites, but I’ve never tired of these entire albums, and I look forward to hearing a track from these come up on “random spin”.

November 27, 2007

Life without Quicken

Just re-reading my Quicken tirades. I still think they had horrible at customer service, and will not use their products again. Just in case you were wondering. But, now I had to put my money where my morals were, and stop using Quicken. Yes, the customer service people doing Quicken BillPay, and the whole BillPay service might be an entirely different division of Intuit, but I had a bad taste in my mouth, and it was time for a change.