Category: General

Computer gaming is one of those areas of technology that’s never really held my attention.  From time to time I’ll play a card game over on All inPlay or try some of the games described on AudioGames but I find myself quickly losing interest.   Then too when I read about people doing things like selling their virtual characters for thousands of dollars or paying folks to play the entry rounds for them in games I…

It is a land of ice and snow today in Seattle. I took a quick walk outside and thought I was back in Wisconsin.

The Seattle Times has been running a series they call Your Courts, Their Secrets. The series looks at different legal settlements that have been improperly kept secret and is an example to me of what quality journalism should be about. Today’s installment examines the case of a school teacher with a lengthy demonstrated history of sexual assault and how the system kept things hidden. This is a series worth reading and it is good to…

One of the memories that sticks with me about travel in India is the wildness of the traffic. The LA Times ran an article talking about Delhi traffic today. Bus drivers cut off motorcyclists, truckers dodge cows, entire families squeeze onto a single scooter, three-wheel “auto rickshaws” zip in between everyone else, and those on foot utter prayers and curses in equal measure.

Seems that podcasting is all the rage so I’ll give it a try. I finally found a Movable Type plugin that can handle audio. Configuration looks pretty straight forward so hopefully I can get it up and working before the trip. I’d like to post some audio highlights as we travel.

It has been a long time since I’ve upgraded much of my personal audio gear. For years I’ve been content with a basic cassette walkman because most of what I do is listen to the radio while I walk to the bus and travel to and from work. Alas my radio has pretty much given out as I can no longer turn it off without removing the batteries. Switching from AM to FM has become…

Kitchen remodel 2005 is just about finished. More on the entire process in a different post but after so many have asked how things are looking I’ve put some pics online. You can see everything done to date in these photos. The project should be done sometime this week and final pics will get posted then. These photos have no alternative text and are really just a file copy of a directory of pictures. Once…

Earlier today I read this article from the New York Times Magazine talking about society’s efforts to arrive at the “good death”. As I sat down to write about the article I happened to turn on the radio and heard the news that Peter Jennings had died. There’s a strong temptation to write my memories of Jennings and all the news brought to me through his coverage. Although journalism isn’t my profession today, Jennings and…

And yet again I read another reminder of that frightful day almost four years ago. Tears, fear, shame, blame, anger, danger, pain, and all so impossible to explain. Thankfully the result for my being hit by a car as the result of a driver’s inattention and failure to yield” was much less serious than death–the outcome for 103 pedestrians during the period this article describes. “Inattention and failure to yield is what you are pleading…

Growing up I had the occasional newspaper written about this or that school function I was in. Back then the parents would buy a few extra copies of the paper to clip and send the article to relatives. Funny to see how times have changed when today it is an e-mail with a link telling me that my niece made the newspaper.