It’s that time of year again

Yes, kids, tomorrow is System Administrator’s Day, the best time to apologize to your local geeks for all the pain you’ve caused them over the past year. (Go on, admit it; you know you’ve caused them pain.) Right now, I’ll accept myriad apologies from anybody who can give me the deed to the house at [...]

Where else can you renew your plates and get hitched, all within an hour?

Since I’m now getting phone calls asking me what the “big news” is, I’m posting a very brief account. Monday, I renewed my license plates. Gee, fun. Fortunately, I could do this at City Hall, just across the rotunda from the office where they register domestic partnerships, so I took care of both of those [...]

Sorry for the delay

I know, I promised a post from Saturday’s server maintenance, but it was busier than I expected. A bit of news just happened but I can’t post anything beyond a teaser at the moment. (Yes, I know I can be cruel sometimes.) But here’s a video from last week’s storm to tide you over in [...]

Storms from the north?

Today at work I signed onto my Gmail box and was met with a chorus of “Are you guys OK?” messages. I’ll head off a few questions now. Yes, we’re OK. Yes, we lost power. Yes, we have it back now. All told, we were only electricity-challenged from about 19:15 to 11:15, roughly sixteen hours [...]

A confession.

Yes, I am watching this season of “Project Runway”. It’s always full of high drama from fashion queens, and on occasion it can contain high fashion from drama queens. Plus, every episode has at least six “WHAT WAS S/HE THINKING?!?!” moments. The bestest recaps, though, are on fourfour. See this one of the Season 3 [...]