Daily Archives: May 11th, 2006

Things are looking up for apache (no, not the web server)

Apache, who had suffered tissue damage (muscles), and had several inflamed internal organs, and had (possibly) a fracture in her pelvic bone, is recovering. The vet put her on steroids to help with the pain and inflamation. We’re now weening her off of the steroids (she’s now down to one every other day.) And after [...]

Information overload and search vs relevance

Increasingly people are having less of a problem finding the information, and are now having more of a problem managing that information. Often times I find myself frustrated at people who cant find what they want via a search engine, and then a matter of seconds later (with the same search engine) I’ve pulled up [...]

Paying it forward… To yourself

I’m a pretty lucky guy. Today, when I told my boss “I need to spend a sizeable chunk of time doing this right (that is re-doing it since we’ve solidified on concepts and semantics since the proof of concept version of this code)” he understood that it was important. He gave me the rest of [...]

The 8th Thing Never To Do At The Dog Park

8. Never go to the dog park with an upset stomache! It’s near impossible to get out in a pinch!! Lucky for me I was there with my wife, and I could just take the truck and run to the nearest Panera for a restroom break! Phew! Sheesh… Kids…