“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future”
- Paul Boese
If I see one more holiday/seasonal commercial talking about love and gifts and giving… I’m going to punch something…
And they’re usually diamonds… so I wonder how many one armed african kids are behind them also.
*sigh*
One of them is having perspective on the universe I live in.
This blog post at : http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/11/incredible-vista-of-the-cosmos/ has done that to me today.
Here’s another phenomenal picture. It’s an amazing 2 x 1.5 degree field toward the center of the Milky Way, revealing about a million stars! It’s taken completely in the near infrared, just outside [...]
http://reddit.com is one of those nerd/geek websites doing social news aggregation. Its much more geeky then digg or others, so the content seems to be of higher quality, if not focused more in to my spectrum of interest. A lot of it can be tripe, but every so often, a diamond comes out of [...]
Seriously, this weather? Awesome.
Things achieved this morning.
1. got up
2. had coffee
3. took a shower
4. launched a website
http://www.uarts.edu just launched with a new home page, and a refresh to the interior style sheets. its *MUCH* cleaner now.
bigger changes are down the road, but we’re on to a great start.
Its 1230pm on [...]
Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks
Written by Jeff Ello
September 8, 2009
Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks
September 8, 2009 (Computerworld) I can sum up every article, book and column written by notable management experts about managing IT in two sentences: “Geeks are smart and creative, but they are also egocentric, antisocial, managerially and [...]
Something to watch while we celebrate the birth of this nation, and to make us think about what it has become.
The more of us who are aware, the less they can lie to us.
http://www.tweenbots.com/
Technology as a feature in our lives.
What are the lines between us, and them, and what do we do when a object asks for help?
Some of us spend a lot of time working with computers, and when something goes wrong, we fix it. Not because we should, but because we need it to work.
But [...]