Category: Miscellanea

  • Readers!

    Well, apparently I’m not just spitting into the wind. Several people have mentioned EdBlog posts to me, just this week. Yeah! I have actual readers! If any of you readers want to offer input as to what I should do with this (i.e., post topics, general site comments, whatever), please leave a comment (below, or…

  • FOSS OTD: 10/19-10/23

    Okay, so I got behind on the FOSS OTD postings. Catching up: 10/19: PHP is a wonderful, fast, and flexible OSS scripting language for web programming and stand-alone applications. 10/20: FileZilla is a free FTP client. There is also a great FileZilla Server application. 10/21: PuTTY is a free telnet/SSH client. Very dependable and flexible.…

  • Whatever happened to…

    Whatever happened to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame?” Why are the World Series games featuring “God Bless America?” That’s a fine sentiment – though not a very good piece of music, in my opinion – but a seventh-inning stretch without “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” is an outrage. In fact, it’s unpatriotic, even…

  • Rough Day

    Okay, it could have been much worse, but this was a rough day. I smacked into the curb, pulling out of the garage, this morning. No damage to the car, so far as I can tell. I bollixed up my understanding of a set of cases in Contracts. I made a fool of myself in…

  • Forget breaking .500…

    I’ll settle for breaking .200, this year… Details here.