Today’s XKCD comic calls out one of the things I dig about the Apple OS X operating system: the development name of each version is a wild cat. Granted, 10.1 and 10.8 are the same cat, but it’s pretty cool. I know when 10.6, Snow Leopard, came out, it called attention to these wonderful creatures. [...]

I have to confess: I don’t read every e-mail I receive. At work, I literally receive scores of messages a day. “Hundreds” is not unprecedented for me, and I know there are folks who get that regularly. Some of the e-mails are ignored because they are clearly ignorable–automated replies to ticket generation (which I retain [...]

I’ve seen the Space Shuttle Enterprise three times in my life. It was at the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans, Louisiana, which I went to twice (once with my family, once with school). As a space junkie, it was a thrill to stand in the presence of the object of my affection. Seven years [...]

I’m actually a fan of daylight savings time (DST). I know people complain about losing an hour of sleep that first weekend. However, the trade-off is large blocks of daylight after work. Yes, i could wake up early in a non-DST world, but I still have to be at work at eight o’clock. Today was [...]

If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time, you know I have a slight fondness for cats of all sorts. I’m particularly interested in small cat species, such as fishing cats, clouded leopards, caracals and sand cats. Small cats are simply not as well known as their larger cousins (tigers, lions, jaguars, [...]

I wanted to get everyone’s opinion of QR Codes. I’ve been tumbling this in my head for the last week or two, and wanted to try to get some more feedback. A QR Code is a “two dimensional” barcode. While they have other uses, the most popular is to easily redirect someone to a web [...]

I keep a journal in a Rhodia Web Notebook (“Webbie”). I’m about halfway through it, with the first entry dated September 29, 2010. I write all sorts of things, including quotes. These are either somewhat inspiring, amusing, or simply make me smile. I thought I would share them. The date represents the day it was [...]

Across the park from the Georgia Aquarium is the World of Coca-Cola. This museum has a variety of artifacts from the Atlanta-based company, as well as a tasting room, where you can taste all the products from around the globe. In order to get in, you have to go through a metal detector and a [...]

It’s early morning. You have to get up for some reason… …to go to the bathroom. …daughter calls out. …the cat is making TOO. MUCH. FREAKIN’. NOISE! You do whatever is required, and lay down. The only color in the room is the LEDs of your alarm clock, showing 5:17. All you can think is [...]

I dare say many of the folks reading my blog are what I have termed in my RSS reader as “Vox Refugees.” We all received notice about a month ago that Six Apart decided to discontinue their Vox service. Yesterday, September 30, was its final day. When it came out in 2006, I think Vox [...]