Norm’s leaving Sun. I’ve never worked with Norm on a Sun-internal project, as his projects didn’t overlap with mine, but I’ve worked with him on others, most particularly the OASIS Entity Resolution TC. He was also one of the reviewers and session chairs I could most rely on when I was chairing the XML conference.
Norm [...]
I hate getting my eyes examined, which is why I only submit to it every two years or so. Since part of the reason I go is to make sure that any symptoms of glaucoma or macular degeneration are found, I get the full check-up, involving horrible chemicals to dilate the pupils. These, of course, [...]
It’s always nice to have a good customer service experience; not that I expected otherwise in this case. And when it shows a good way to use a customer’s personal information, so much the better.
What happened was, we had a display case built into our dining room wall. I stained it and varnished it, and [...]
I don’t usually get a lot of phone scams on my office phone, probably because it’s unlisted. But I did get one today. Being April Fools’ Day, I wasn’t sure whether it was a prank or a scam; after hunting around a bit on the web I think the latter.
It was a brief call, an [...]
Even if you don’t have kids, you might find the sight of some outfits people dress their kids up in to be amusing - 8 Good Examples Of What Happens When Geeks Have Children (found in the Ravelry geekcraft forum).
In a city like Vancouver in the depths of winter, when we’re so used to rain, rain, and more rain, to the extent that even the local paper prints “this is getting boring” as the weather forecast, any sun is appreciated. So today’s glorious sunshine, even though accompanied by cold frosts in the morning, was [...]
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