Archive for March, 2008
Downgrade Me!
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008I was sitting here thinking I had nothing to blog about, and then I got on the phone with Symantec to try to get a downgrade license for a client so that they could not install Symantec Endpoint 11, which they had been basically forced to buy, and keep going with Symantec AntiVirus 10.2 which [...]
So Yeah
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Maybe I’m back to blogging. We’ll see how it goes. The kids are healthy again, and we’ve settled once more into a routine of sorts, but we’ll see how long it lasts. Speaking of blogging, one of the cooliest writer peeps out there, Mer Haskell, has elected to collapse her blog and LiveJournal into one, [...]
Kidular Development
Monday, March 10th, 2008Watching my kids grow up is an exercise in confounded expectations. Not that, for example, I expected child-rearing to be some kind of smooth and straight road–I was the oldest of five, after all. I know how crazy stuff can get. I was some of that crazy stuff. But my oldest started out right away [...]
Something Old, Something New
Thursday, March 6th, 2008I kinda dig new stuff. Not necessarily in that, “it must be shiny and gadgety” sort of way that most folks think of when they think of the new, but… I like to mix things up. Stay out of ruts. I think a big chunk of what is motivating me to finish the basement (on [...]
A Song, and A Death
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Death first, then song. Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died this week, and though I wasn’t as steeped in the D&D culture as my friends who grew up playing it, I’m terribly sad to see him go. Tributes abound, but my favorite are Rich Burlew’s Order of the Stick and Penny Arcade’s. There’s [...]