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The undocumented years
Back in the day, I had a Livejournal blog where I kept in touch with a few dozen friends and acquaintances. I used it to push out updates that I thought people might find interesting, when they had the time to read. I used to post about once a day. Reading back through those posts gives a decent feel for where I was and what I was doing at the ( Read more... ) -
Tools I use
Originally posted here
I work with computers for a living. Here are some of the tools that I use all the time:
Macbook Pro: I've used a Macbook Pro as my primary workstation since they were introduced, and I haven't looked back. I've had one significant hardware issue in all that time, and Apple fixed it for me at no charge. As JWZ says: I ( Read more... ) -
Of PAX and the Greater Internet
This weekend I spent three days at PAX East. PAX stands for the Penny Arcade Expo. PAX is a convention / exhibition of games and gamers. It's also something of a movable-feast nerd mecca. This year, like last year, it was at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC) - the biggest venue in town short of the football arena. If the ( Read more... ) -
Posting
I used to blog here, but now I maintain my own server over at chris.dwan.orgI used to be able to crosspost from there to LJ automatically, but that seems to be broken. I assume that's LJ's fault, because Wordpress just keeps getting better and better at the same rate that LJ gets worse and worse ( Read more... ) -
Aruba, day N
Lost a couple of days somewhere in there. I have a sunburn. Life is hard. Here's what I can recall of the gap:
We left off on Tuesday, post catamaran snorkeling and just pre-nap. tachnolope and I deferred the naps and instead drove to the northeast side of the island. We discovered a martian landscape with incredibly sharp coral baking in the sun, and ( Read more... ) -
Aruba, day 2
Yesterday we went to the California lighthouse at the North end of the island. It's up on a bit of a promontory, and we got gorgeous views of the northern half (or so) of the island. We also got hit up by the first of several people who wanted to take just a moment of our time to offer a presentation on real estate opportunities on the island. ( Read more... ) -
Aruba, day 1
Yesterday was pretty epic, in my book:
We started by catching the 6am trolley, making our way to the airport. Met up with capital_l and technolope and got on a plane to Charlotte, NC and then on a plane to Oranjestad, Aruba. The flights were uneventful, and I've decided that I sort of like the Dutch accent ( Read more... ) -
Prayer banner, redux
Jessica Alqhuist is a student at West Cranston High School in RI. I've written about her before. She's the one who noticed that her school still displayed its "School Prayer" (a relic from the 50's) on a large banner (a relic from the 60's) in the auditorium. Initially, the prayer was a mandatory daily recitation by all the students in place of ( Read more... ) -
2011 Retrospective
At the end of each year I make a little summary post listing the first (interesting) line from the first post of each month. What I note this year is that I basically stopped writing as of September, and also that I seem to have spent a lot of time pissed off about various things.
Bummer.
Previously:
* 2004
* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2008
* 2009
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Light in the Darkness
Christmas day falls very close to the solstice, and also to the shortest day of the year in North America. It finally got cold in Boston just this week. We had an extended remix of what we used to call “Indian summer,” and then briefly, “false summer,” before ceasing to mention it at all without a vague grumble about Al Gore. It’s below the ( Read more... )