I have gotten out of the habit of updating here. I found that if I get to far behind it is hard for me to either write the chronicles of what has been happening or to skip the intervening adventures. But I have been watching. I do appreciated the sharing each of my friends do ( Read more... )

I told you I was planning to go to the Pilgrimage to Winchester SCA event in England. I went. But since I was going all that way there why not does some other visiting... The plan, the minimal plan, the plan such as it was, was to leave for London on Wednesday arriving there Thursday morning, then to make my way down to Portsmouth for that ( Read more... )

Seems that I get to go to London a month earlier than I expected  And this time work is sending me ( Read more... )

I just booked a flight to London to attend the Winchester Pilgrimage IV hosted by the West Dragoningshire in Drachenwald.

So I will be flying to London to attend an event,  oh and go look at old clocks in old museums.....

Rhodri saw a shirt on his travels and just "knew" it was something I would appreciate.   And he is very very right ( Read more... )

Collision of two worlds.  I can see this really working well in a large datacenter.

Seen on Slashdot:   Microsoft Windows on the Mainframe

Software that for the first time lets users run native copies of the Windows operating systems on a mainframe will be introduced Friday by data center automation vendor Mantissa. ...

They do it by running a Windows ( Read more... )

I have uploaded the pictures I took while out in the mangroves.....

http://picasaweb.google.com/rwbordelon/OutwardBoundRenewal09?authkey=nT3xo4_odds#

I got home from the Outward Bound trip on Saturday evening.  That was a fantastic week.  I will be uploading pictures and transcribing my journal over the next few days.  Stay tuned for that....

In the mean time,  Sunday evening I flew to San Diego for the week...

And now I leave to attend the Outward Bound Adult Renewal course.  8 days of sea kayaking in the 10,000 Islands region of Florida.   See ya when I return.

Back around Christmas, in England a group of Atheist rented add space on the sides of public transit buses.  They had slogans like "There's probably no God. So stop worrying about it and enjoy your life"  www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/21/religion-advertising

That campaign led to a contest to have readers compose better slogans.  www. ( Read more... )