Steve Jobs’ death has prompted widespread and popular sorrow (Dennis Ritchie’s death a few days later has been widely regarded with silence, which is sad in its own right). Steve wasn’t even 60. The fact that he succumbed to modern humanity’s scourge — cancer — instead of dying a “natural” death of heart failure...
Read more →So, I’m in Texas. In the heat. The dry, baking heat. The killing, inescapable, merciless heat. Actually, the heat is surprisingly survivable — not just because of the A/C, though it is necessary, but because after a while you just get used to it. It’s 96 now, but just a few minutes ago I...
Read more →So, the markets are a complete disaster area today — even gold is down, and marginal safe haven commodity silver (SLV) has bombed atrociously just after climbing out of the crater of a crash from two months back. But I had to laugh when I looked at CNN and found them reusing an image...
Read more →Weather.com assures me that tonight is going to be a beautiful night. And so, now the sun is setting a little earlier, it is finally time to set up the projector and the big screen out on the back deck and have a movie night. Anyone who would care to come is welcome; bring...
Read more →I started working for PRWeb in December of 2005. Now, approximately 1,200 work days later, I am preparing to lock my workstation and walk out of this building for the last time. Is 1,200 days a long time, or a short one? I don’t even feel like the same person I was when I...
Read more →This morning, I noticed something subtly difference about the appearance of the woods behind my house in our view from the second story skylight. Turns out they weren’t woods in more — they had become a lake. The water appears to still be rising. I walked down Lynn to West North street and then...
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