Monthly Archives: January 2009
Taphouse Grill
A friend of mine, formerly of Seattle, was back in town last night to visit. To celebrate, a number of us had dinner at Taphouse Grill in downtown Seattle. Unfortunately, the experience wasn’t particularly thrilling. The first issue is one … Continue reading
Log Cloud 1.0 beta
In a somewhat previous life, I used to write software. At this point it’s been years since I’ve written a line of production code. But I still poke around every once in a while. I’ve even coded up some plugins … Continue reading
cforms II now uses GPL 3.0
A short update to the kerfuffle that my opinion entry about cforms II caused. As a result of the mess, Oliver Seidel released cforms 10.2 under the GPL version 3. It’s not yet back in the WordPress plugin repository, but … Continue reading
Seeing Blood Clots Using Ultrasound
Today’s adventure in chauffeuring my grandfather around took us to Seattle Cardiology (at Swedish Cherry Hill campus) for a follow-up visit after his recent hospitalizations. Gramps wanted me to accompany him into the rooms for the actual checkup. Usually Gram … Continue reading
Blagojevich Impeachment Trial Rules
Without taking any opinion on whether or not Rod Blagojevich should be impeached or not, I do have an opinion on the impeachment trial. I’ve seen lots of criticism of Blagojevich for not attending his trial or mounting a defense. … Continue reading
Truly Great Insults
With all the vitriol being spewed my way in the comments on my cforms II post, I’d have thought that someone would have come up with a truly great insult. The best insult of the bunch only compared me unfavorably … Continue reading
Tentative Next Pie Night: March 14
Mark your calendars. The tentative date for the next pie night will be Saturday, 14 March 2009. Image by Flickr user Alpha licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 license.
Ashes and Diamonds
I forgot to write this up the other day, but Michelle brought over a three DVD collection of Andrej Wajda. I know very little of him, other than he’s an obscure Polish filmmaker. Perhaps not so obscure to the film … Continue reading
Spice Market Pastitsio
Trying a new recipe from the Better Homes & Gardens Biggest Book of Casseroles. There’s another Pastitsio recipe in the book as well, but I didn’t notice it until I’d bought everything for this one. The other recipe appears to … Continue reading
cforms II does not use a GPL compatible license
I helped a friend of mine set up a web site for her small business. She asked me if I could install some sort of contact form for it, so she wouldn’t have to rely in people getting her email … Continue reading