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Archive of posts filed under the misc category.
Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!
This evening my wife and I went to the taping of NPR’s “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” radio show at the Straz Center in Tampa. The show is normally taped in Chicago, but it occasionally travels around the country. A few months ago when we heard it was coming to Tampa, we just had [...]
Remembering 9/11 – 10 years later
I was still a traveling consultant in September of 2001 and my assignment at the time was a PeopleSoft upgrade in the Chicago suburbs. We were in our daily morning meeting when we first heard the news about the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Like everywhere else that morning, the atmosphere was one of [...]
Am I a digital hoarder?
I actually had a post with this title sitting in draft status for months in WordPress and never really got around to starting/finishing it. Then I saw Scott Johnson’s latest Extra Life comic.
SysAdmin Day 2011
Today is the last Friday of July, which means it’s time once again to thank your local system administrator(s) on System Administrator Appreciation Day. What, you don’t know what your sysadmin does, or who he/she is? Read this and I’m sure you’ll figure it out.
Atlantis lifts off, shuttle program comes to an end
The skies were gray but that didn’t detract from the beauty of the last space shuttle launch. It sounded like they might scrub the launch at the last minute due to the weather, but Atlantis lifted on-time, taking a huge load of supplies up to the international space station. I wasn’t lucky enough to be [...]
Happy birthday, Big Blue!
Today IBM is celebrating its 100th birthday. From bar codes, to the floppy disk, to the IBM PC, to Watson, there’s no shortage of contributions IBM has made to the world over the past century. I was an IBMer for just over a year, part of the Global Services division when they purchased PwC Consulting [...]
Small shrine at site of “Macho Man” crash
My daughter and I were out bike riding this morning and on our way home noticed this small shrine on the site where former WWF star Randy “Macho Man” Savage crashed his truck into a tree and was killed last month. I was not really a WWF fan when I was a kid but of [...]
Remembering Challenger
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.” – [...]
Why I don’t use Facebook
John C. Dvorak summed it up pretty well (for me) in his recent article on PCMag.com: If I want a personal webpage with all sorts of information about myself, I’ll go to WordPress.com and make one. By doing this, I don’t turn over any data, control, or information to an onerous third party to sell, [...]
