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Paraphrasing a tweet...
Now I'm home after kicking the chair from under the feet of 2010, I'm supping a modest amount of decent single malt to welcome in 2011.
Happy New Year, one and all. Here's hoping that it's better than 2010. -
This is why I like NPR
Story on a radio signal that has qualities we might expect from a signal intentionally sent by an extraterrestrial intelligence, but was only recorded once, so we can't be sureWhy do I like this story so much? It presents it in exactly the right way, explaining why this signal is so interesting, and why it can't be used as definite proof of ( Read more... ) -
Today has been a very, very good day
Firstly, it was a day off work ( Read more... ) -
Always good to find old friends
It's always good to find people you've mostly lost touch with online, as the group of old-school Safehouse people I just befriended on Facebook just reminded me.
To all the EQ crowd who were there, I give you this link:http://www.erjholton.org/gallery/v/olderpics/ -
Cornbread
Spent a pleasant day in South Pittsburg at the 14th Annual Cornbread Festival. Ate cornbread, enjoyed the festival atmosphere.
Now I'm home, fed, and have been petting Apollo. Which is no small order, as there is quite a lot of Apollo to pet. -
Delves and the 4E DM learning curve
Over the weekend just past, I ran a level 5 delve as a one-shot, and much fun was had by all, as always with these ( Read more... ) -
"Upgrade Complete"
Bonus cookie to anyone who gets the RTS reference in the title ( Read more... ) -
Some good news on the hardware front...
On the dying, old machine I was using the facility of the motherboard's ICH5R southbridge chip to mirror two drives to get redundancy for my personal data. It's not strictly the chipset doing it, it's an interaction between the firmware and the Windows driver, known by some (and not in a complementary fashion) as "fake RAID ( Read more... ) -
Hardware troubles on the older box...
I hate it when I have hardware troubles on one of my own machines, even one that I've had for five years. I especially hate it when the troubles appear to be related to motherboard or CPU, as it seems to be at the moment (although troubleshooting isn't quite finished yet).
Does anyone else take it personally when their personal hardware starts to
