‘Cause You Can Never Have Too Few Linux Boxes

Because I was so darn excited about my computer at home and feeling cocky about having fixed up my Linux box so well, I started feeling cocky. "You know what would be cool," I told myself, "is to have a shared partition on my computer at work that both Windows and Linux could see. That [...]

Munchkin’ Away

Over the past five years or so, my parents have built up a fairly respectable little theater company at their church, the Shoestring Theater Company. They’ve put on a number of productions, including Oliver Twist, Annie, and Godspell, in addition to smaller productions that are usually part of a church service or some such [...]

Shooting Zombies at Dusk: Or, Five Reasons Why My Wife Is Cooler than Yours

So the other evening, I went out into our back yard to hang my laundry out to dry. I came back inside to hear the sounds of gunfire, screaming, and high-speed industrial music emanating from our living room. This would probably have been alarming to some people, I suppose, but I wasn’t at all dismayed; [...]

At Square One. Still.

Back on March 7, I referred to a project I’d taken on at work: re-engineering a large piece of open-source software, Phorum, which is written in a hypertext processing language called PHP (a scripting language similar to ASP or Cold Fusion), to operate against our in-house database schema. Phorum typically comes with its own database [...]

No More Yielding than a Dream

And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream…
–"A Midsummer Night’s Dream", Act V Scene 1

I know that I really ought to be concentrating on one thing at a time, but there are far too many things that I want to do. A partial list:

Learn Linux (so [...]

Wherein Our Hero Discovers He’s Been On Earth All Along

All in all, I think that Jennifer has probably made the transition from engaged to married more smoothly than I have. While I still find myself stopping dead in my tracks from time to time (inconvenient when I’m driving at eighty miles an hour down highway 80) and thinking to myself, "Wow! I’m really married [...]