Have you ever felt like you had something to say, but didn’t know what? Like you needed to write something, but it just would start? As if all you need is a little inspiration and a hot steaming pile of beautiful prose would come pouring out of you? Yeah… all you need to do is [...]
As a high school kid, I traveled significantly more than the vast of majority of high school kid that I know or knew. My senior year, I spent over 10,000 hours on the road, driving all over the place (mostly Illinois). I had the chance to go, for days at a time, to places like [...]
Well… a few days ago, I posted a little riddle about cursed monks on an island. Here’s the solution. If you need to see the riddle again… There is an island of monks where everyone has either brown eyes or red eyes. Monks who have red eyes are cursed, and are supposed to commit suicide at [...]
Today Emily and Faye Hollenbeck turn 21. For those of you a little slow on the uptake, that makes them twins. Happy Birthday to them!The party, however, was last night. Dinner and then a trip to Champaign/Urbana were on the agenda. Now, I’ve known the twins since high school, and most of the folks who [...]
So, a while back, Amy was noticing some search referrals that were legit, but that she had no info on her site for. So, being the good person that she is, she decided to post something to fulfill the search request. Well, being the smartass that I am, I decided to tweak the idea a [...]
Continue reading about Google Genie — Your search is my command
Every so often Slashdot posts something interesting. This is one of those times. Apparently a UC Berkeley student has put together a list of the kind of “Interview Riddles” that microsoft made famous. They’re categorized (Easy, Medium, Hard, Microsoft-used, and Computer Science Related) I made it all the way through the easy riddles, but got [...]
Well, after installing a Gallery for Faith, I was a bit inspired. I wanted one! Of course, with all of the musical-server playing that wasn’t really practical. Now, however, I’m settled in. So it stands to reason that I’d install the gallery and upload some photos. This is exactly what I’ve done. Pete’s gallery. Enjoy!
Ok… if you’re seeing this message, please don’t panic. It means that you’ve finally reached the third and final server that this site will reside on this week. I’m not making any promises about next week yet.
On Friday a manager at work requested a meeting to talk to me as soon as possible. Before I could return to the computer to find that message, he had already scheduled me for a meeting this morning. As you all are aware, this is not typically a good thing. The long story is interesting, [...]
So here’s the story… I’m still not sure WHY my host is telling me that I’m going over my 10GB transfer per month. They can’t tell me why either. “I Just Am” Well… starting as soon as this domain name resolves to the new webhost, that problem should disappear. Ok, you can tell me how much [...]
