Geek Drivel

Yesterday evening, through a bizarre set of circumstances, our front door was left open for about three hours without us realizing it. Our three pampered and indoor cats reacted to this in various ways… Oliver Bert-tholomew Purrington (the youngest and smartest) came upstairs to let us know about it, and when he was unable to [...]

Test post, seems to be some trouble on the server. Update: Apparently this version of WordPress has a problem with the letters CC followed immediately by a colon. Every time I tried to publish the next post (with the letters “FCC” followed by a colon), it told me that the post was “not acceptable.” I [...]

Those of you keeping track may have noticed that I’ve tried, since starting this blog, to post at least one entry a day. You may also have noticed a few gaps recently. Those don’t indicate a lack of enthusiasm on my part, just a lack of time: I’ve gotten very busy with Project X recently, [...]

…I hate it. The clouds crapped about two feet onto us today, ruining the 60th birthday party that my wife had been organizing for her mother for the past several weeks. I wonder what the Sahara is like this time of year…?

This morning I realized that my to-do list for Project X was getting out of hand. I’ve used various bug-tracking systems before, and I thought one of those would be ideal for this (both now and in the future), so I decided it was time to set up a local copy of Bugzilla.

Tomorrow night, 10:01pm US Eastern time, a total lunar eclipse begins. Don’t miss it, it’s the last one for nearly three years.

What is it about the holidays that makes them so virus-prone?*

And a happy New Year to everyone!

I never really took to coffee — I love the smell of it, but I don’t really care for the taste all that much. But for many years, I drank several cans and/or bottles of caffeinated pop a day. Very caffeinated. It didn’t take long before caffeine didn’t have much effect on me anymore — [...]

Well, at least the fastest one I’ve ever had. GoddessJ and I had a Christmas party for a small group of friends and family, including one of her cousins and his wife and one-year-old daughter, on Christmas day itself. The cousin didn’t mention that the daughter had the stomach flu until that evening, after she’d [...]