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Admin: Clearing Up Some RAMH Clutter, Part 3
Sometime in the next couple of days, I’ll switch Running After My Hat over to its new look. For anyone interested in such matters, I’ve prepared some screen captures to give you an idea of what to expect. Below, I’ll include an annotated version of some of those screen captures in this post, highlighting various features. If [...]
Admin: Clearing Up Some RAMH Clutter, Part 2
Briefly: for anyone who’s interested, I’m going to be experimenting with various new “looks” at a special subsite of this one. (I’ll make a bigger announcement when I’m ready to take this live.) Currently, I’ve imported to the test site only posts and comments and so on from January 1 2011 through the “Admin: Cleaning [...]
Do We Ever Really Get It?
[Image: looking up into the Ring Around a Tree playspace/bus shelter in Fuji, Japan. Click to enlarge; see the note at the foot of this post for more information.] From whiskey river: I always gained something from making myself better, better than I am, better than I was, that most subtle citation: to recover some [...]
Updates: Watson on Jeopardy!
If you were interested in the subject at all, you’ve probably read all about it already. But for what it’s worth, I updated my “What Is Hubris, Alex?” post of a couple days ago with three longish comments recapping the three nights’ programs. The first one is here; scroll down on that page for the [...]
“What Is Hubris, Alex?” *
I’d heard of this little demonstration of computing power some time ago; last week I caught a documentary about it on PBS’s NOVA program. On the way into work today, I also heard a more up-to-date report of it on NPR’s Morning Edition. The event itself takes place tonight through Wednesday, during the regular Jeopardy! [...]
Things Programmers Think (and Sometimes Say)
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 [...]
The Look of a Writer’s Blog: Putting Readers at Ease
[This borders on "for geeks only" territory. But I think it's worth at least some attention if you aspire to get -- and keep -- a reading audience for your words on the Web.] A highly respected site for Web-site designers, typographers, and so on, is called A List Apart. It’s been around for years, [...]
Forward Bravely, into the Past!
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 [...]
Placeholder Post: Pre-Playlist
At least one thing has surprised me about Running After My Hat so far: the extent to which I’m blogging about and incorporating music in my posts. I mean, it’s not as though I actually know anything about the subject. I’m not a musician or musicologist or, well, much of anything regarding music — except [...]
Story Starters: The Writer’s Idea Bank
When I first started programming, both I and a brother-in-law worked for AT&T. This was back in the days before all the local phone networks got spun off into their own companies — when the entire US phone network was called, collectively, “the Bell System.” My brother-in-law, whom I will here call The BiL, was [...]
