Archive for July, 2009

Palins resignation speech

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

I haven’t paid much attention to Sarah Palin in the year since I first heard of her.  Okay, periodically I’ve laughed at her.  And Palin As President was pretty funny.  But last night I was commenting to K that this line from her resignation speech was pure Zen:
“In the winter time it’s the frozen road [...]

the importance of verifying backups

Monday, July 20th, 2009

I was using my personal laptop at a meeting yesterday and grabbed about a gig of files from someone’s usb key.  While I was taking minutes, I noticed a lovely new icon that popped up… your hard disk drive is failing.  Eeek!  Not cool.  So, last night I got home and started backing up my [...]

Back from Galts Gulch

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Yes, because I’m a mighty industrialist (aka Ubermensch) and the world will fall down if I stop writing.   Okay, enough picking on the Randians.  Sorry for the radio silence.  A quick update:
I got back from Des Moines last month and the next day had a board meeting for the non-profit I work with.  [...]