Techie Manager

…or, “My Mac Conversion”
Background
As I had posted previously, my good friend Bob gave me his old Apple Powerbook G4 12″ back in January. I had wanted a Mac for years, but was a dedicated Windows user (I also ran both Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux, but they were secondary machines). Windows had [...]

Updated! - see Boston Globe article link below
I commute in to Boston from the South Shore by boat. Its much more relaxing than driving, and the each boat has a bar. How can you go wrong. Out of all of the commuter boats in the fleet, I prefer to take the Massachusetts. [...]

Some shameless self-promotion in Computerworld magazine:
A coalition of 360 users and vendors led by the SANS Institute last week launched a new information security skills assessment and certification program for corporate and government software programmers.
The National Secure Programming Skills Assessment (NSPSA) examinations will provide IT managers with a process for assessing the secure coding skills [...]

I was just talking to my wife about a computer network problem and my youngest son chimed in:
I pee a dress? Daddy, who is peeing in a dress?
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I haven’t had a new gadget in quite some time, mostly due to the fact that I’ve sworn them off as evil minions of Satan (and being on hold with gadget company tech support is much like Purgatory). Still - I’ve been secretly pining for a Mac for years, ever since I had a [...]

My 2007 resolutions:

Lose last of the fat - drop down to 170 lbs by March 1st (8 pounds to go!).
More patience - don’t snap to judgment, let others finish a sentence before cutting in, don’t get angry if others are going slower. 
Stop yelling as much - goes hand-in-hand with “more patience”.  Control the temper.
Focus [...]

Just for the hell of it I’ve decided to switch from Movable Type to WordPress. So far I am very very impressed. Incredibly easy to install, very easy to migrate, and easy to manage.

Let the Buffalo jokes begin…
Record snowstorm barrels into Buffalo - CNN.com
BUFFALO, New York (AP) — A rare early October snowstorm left parts of the Great Lakes and Midwest blanketed with 2 feet of snow Friday morning, prompting widespread blackouts, closing schools and halting traffic.
By early Friday, 14 inches of snow had been recorded at the [...]

Thank you, YouTube, for providing me a way to upload my l33t keyboard skills to the Internets.
Set the wayback machine to 1986…

I’m still not sure how I feel about turning 40. Hell, it’s better than turning 50, right?
Stuff that happened on April 12th (from Wikipedia):
* 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
* 1606 - The Union Jack is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.
* 1633 - The formal [...]