Didn’t get around to noting this post on Jake’s blog, but the differences between the two restrooms are just astounding. One of the comments to his post has an interesting history … Continue reading »
Grace has now fully moved in. Our combined furniture fills both apartments, not tightly, but enough so that it becomes difficult thinking about where to put an extra bookcase. … Continue reading »
To update the story of the new computer I got my parents and in response to the various ValueDisk queries that Google sends my way, I’d like to note that … Continue reading »
Trivially annoyed with the 404 “/favicon.ico not found” errors I get in http logs, I went and created a trivial favicon.ico file. This was about two minutes with MS … Continue reading »
Here’s an article I found on Gizmodo. The main thrust of the article (and presumably its followups) is that we’ve been too limited in thinking about digital cameras. … Continue reading »
This Gothamist article provides a helpful pointer to the City’s searchable database of restaurant health code violations. Unfortunately, the database appears down momentarily, or I’d be checking places we’ve … Continue reading »
The closing for the apartment was yesterday. Hallelujah! The whole process has taken about half a year, was at least a month past contract, and survived a last … Continue reading »
We spent Saturday on Fire Island: some friends have a quarter share in Fair Harbor, and did the day trip thing of having some barbeque and spending time on the … Continue reading »
Just notes to self on setting up an Oracle 9i/Solaris server to do native compilation instead of interpreted PL/SQL, since I spent a couple of hours on it last night, … Continue reading »
I finished the new Harry Potter just before the 4th of July weekend. I was one of those people who pre-ordered from Amazon shortly after the book was announced … Continue reading »