Category Archives: personal

wildfires moving closer to home

A couple of people have called me in the last couple of days checking to see if Elisabeth and I were okay. She drove up to Los Angeles last night (just in time too) and we’re doing fine. Her parents are much closer in Aguanga, CA… about 12 miles northeast of the Poomacha fire. I […]

reach out and touch someone

I just love the communication tools we have at our disposal in this day and age. Earlier tonight I received a rather unpleasant email from an apparently frustrated individual (let’s call him Joe) in reply to a message I sent to a mailing list. He quite insistently requested to be taken off said mailing list, […]

She said “yes”

So about four weeks after we already secured the venue for our wedding, we are now officially engaged. I proposed in the same photobooth where we had our pictures taken on our first official date 18 months ago.

New Monitor

Don’t you just love those days when your boss comes by your desk and says, “Go to my office and get yourself a 24” monitor.” The end of the fiscal year is always a fun time of year. :)

LiveJournal syndication

LiveJournal has a recurring problem in dealing with syndicated feeds that I can’t quite figure out — under certain circumstances, it decides that all the items in a feed are new even though they have had absolutely no updates. The net effect of this is that for any users that added that syndication to their […]