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New Year. New Gig.

So, I took Mike up on his offer. Starting this coming Monday, January 7th, 2008, I will be a full time employee of Collaborative Software Initiative. This was not a terribly easy decision to make because at virtually the same time that I was talking to Mike, Burton Group, my current employer, asked [...]

Go get yerself some cheap eyeglasses

Update: From the comments: Patrick Mueller suggests reviewing potential retailers here: http://www.eyeglassretailerreviews.com/index.htm. He also notes that he picked up some prescription shades at EyeBuyDirect.com. For those of you in the U.K., David A. recommends Glasses Direct.
About three months ago, my then one-year old snapped my $300 glasses in two. One month [...]

We interrupt this blog …

… to bring you this important science fiction update.
Please read everything that John Scalzi has written. And in the event that you have not already read Vernor Vinge’s latest, Rainbows End, then read that too.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging already in progress.
… and now SCA and SDO have been sent [...]

That was quick

Not ten minutes after noticing the tag meme going around, I was tagged by my colleague Richard Monson-Haefel.
Five facts you don’t know about me (unless you know me)

I have two sons, ages 3 and 11 months, adopted from South Korea.
I have 90% of an LDAP-oriented Active Record clone completed, but haven’t touched the code in [...]

Data Points

Wow! There is so much going on right now. Here’s a rundown of some of the things you might have missed:

Leveraging existing content types: Read the comments to Duncan’s “Setting Data” post, where he takes the time to educate me about the finer points of why not to invent new data formats [...]

Back again

I’ve got to me more consientious about blogging.

A Studied Rejoinder

My wife has invited me to post a reply to her unprovoked attack. Herewith:
(postiions thumb on nose, wiggles fingers) “Nyahh, nyahh, nyahh!”
I am not subtle.

A Family Wiki

It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been distracted by work and by a simple social-networking experiment.
I’ve owned the laceys.org domain since 1998, but I haven’t done much with it. This weekend I pointed the domain at my web host, Rimu Hosting, updated the VirtualHosts table in Apache, and installed a Wiki. [...]