From whiskey river:
A Word on Statistics
Out of every hundred people,
those who always know better:
fifty-two.
Unsure of every step:
almost all the rest.
Ready to help,
if it doesn’t take long:
forty-nine.
Always good,
because they cannot be otherwise:
four — well, maybe five.
Able to admire without envy:
eighteen.
Led to error
by youth (which passes):
sixty, plus or minus.
Those not to be messed with:
four-and-forty.
Living in constant fear
of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Computers'
Uncomfortable Numbers
March 5th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Tags: Art & Photography · Computers · Humor · Music · Phones (Cellular and Otherwise) · Poetry · Ruminations · Science & Medicine · The Internet · whiskey river Fridays
Things Programmers Think (and Sometimes Say)
November 15th, 2009 · 5 Comments
In my day job, I have a couple of stock responses to questions from clients or just to my (and their) experiences with computers. One of these stock responses is something which clients almost never like to hear, because it translates, roughly, to This may sound like a “yes,” but if you believe that you’re [...]
Tags: Computers · Linux/Ubuntu · Operating Systems · Programming, Web Design, Databases
Smashing Your Thumb with Your Trusty Hammer
November 10th, 2009 · 7 Comments
[Technology alert: If you're not into PC tech, especially wonky stuff about operating systems and such, you might want to give this post a pass.]
As some of you may know, I almost never use Microsoft Windows anymore — at least, when at home. (At work, there’s no other option.) Until a couple days ago, in [...]
Tags: Computers · Linux/Ubuntu · Operating Systems · The Online World · Windows
Forward Bravely, into the Past!
January 21st, 2009 · 7 Comments
This March — the 12th, and isn’t it interesting I remember the exact date? — marks my 30th year as a computer guy.
When I started out at AT&T, my job title was Member of Programming Staff (with a digression into Managerhood); at my present job, I’ve been a Distributed Systems Specialist, a Business Systems Analyst, [...]
Tags: Computers · Linux/Ubuntu · Looking Backward · Operating Systems · Programming, Web Design, Databases · Tech · The Internet · Windows
Smile After Smile
December 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments
They say old habits die hard, and I guess it’s true.
But traditions are a sort of shared old habit, and traditions don’t die hard at all — although they don’t flat-out die, either. Traditions evolve. People come and go. What’s possible replaces what you could never do, and what you used to do all the [...]
Tags: Family · In the Blood · Linux/Ubuntu · Tech · The Internet · Windows
Cramming Technologies into an Elevator
August 26th, 2008 · 8 Comments
My brother the architect once explained to me the key to building things successfully. By building he meant not just framing, erecting walls and roofs and so on, but everything: flooring, painting, pouring foundations, and so on. All of it, he said, had one critical element: edges. How an architect or builder or home handyman [...]
Tags: Computers · In the News · Merry-Go-Round · Ruminations · Tech · Writing
Bloghopping: Haven Kimmel on “The Sopranos”
August 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
Sometimes using the Web loses all its charm, because you’re too focused on problem-solving.
You need the answer to a question, say, about some damn thing or other that’s locking your computer up, and you don’t know if it’s Linux, or a video driver, or that cheese Danish which inadvertently fell from your mouth (of course [...]
Tags: Computers · Ruminations · The Internet · The Online World · Writing
More Bibliophiliac Detritus
July 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments
In a post a few days ago, I talked about BookRabbit.com — a (fairly new) site which lets readers share the titles of books they own, in hopes of discovering other books they might be interested in. The clever mechanism which BookRabbit have come up with for communicating this information is bookshelf photographs: take a [...]
Tags: Linux/Ubuntu · Reading · The Online World




