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“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy.” The first nice late spring day of the year yesterday, and I’m thinking about summer. Maybe it was attending a customer event in Long Branch, and having dinner on the beach, barefoot (I was shocked at the number of people who stomped through the sand in expensive shoes), listening [...]
Small Circle Asia Tour: Conclusion
I’ve been home from India and Vietnam for almost 10 days, so it’s time to finish up the small circle tour travel review. Monday May 10, Bangalore to Hyderabad. Every time I’m in Bangalore I find something new and amazing. On our way from the Juniper Networks office to the (new) airport, we passed a [...]
John Scalzi’s “Fuzzy Nation”
John Scalzi is definitely one of my favorite sci-fi authors. While I enjoy books that leaving me thinking, head-scratching, pondering serious questions and sometimes collapsing all of those mental states around a quantum mechanics problem centered in the harder sci-fi, Scalzi’s books are uniquely hopeful. I wouldn’t go so far as to call his writing [...]
Another “Like” For The WordPress Community
Part of this blog’s recovery has been switching to the Hybrid theme, with which I’ve experimented a little before. It’s neat, simple, supports a wide variety of child themes, and there’s a very busy support forum. I’m both amazed and thankful that theme author Justin Tadlock personally answers many of the questions, not with “read [...]
Me and Bobby Tables
Brad Williams and I have shared a few Bobby Tables jokes while working on the manuscript for Professional WordPress. SQL injection attacks are nasty, somewhat common, and often require a complete rebuilding of your site to purge and move on. If you’re wondering why the snowman looks a little bare, without pictures, sidebars, or other [...]
Copying Pictures Off Of Your iPhone
Apple makes it very easy to put things on client devices: playlists and music to your iPod, pictures, calendars, photos and music on your iPhone, applications on just about anything other than an iPod. What’s hard is getting your own content off of those devices with cameras. All of the pictures I took on last [...]
City Gardens and Billy Tucker
1701 Calhoun Street in Trenton was home to a club known as “King Tut’s City Gardens,” or simply “City Gardens” if you weren’t using owner Frank’s nom du something. It was the place to see up and coming punk bands; what you listen to somewhat nostaglically on XM/Sirius “First Wave” was first-run, fist-hard, slam-dancing and [...]
Small Circle Asia Tour: Part 3
Day one on the ground, doing real work. Day two or three of travel, depending upon how you account for the fact that my Sunday only had 15 hours instead of 24. Arrived into Bangalore last night just after midnight, and after a reasonably quick trip through immigration and customs, found my assigned driver holding [...]
Small Circle Asia Tour Part 2
Miles: 3,689, 1 flight, 8 hours in the air. Greetings from Frankfurt, Germany. Lufthansa is remarkably well organized, and unlike Air France, they insist on seeing your baggage claim receipt so they can ensure your luggage is transferred and bag matched on your connecting flight. Confidences are high that I won’t have to dip into [...]
Small Circle Asia Tour Part 1
I’m guilty of not writing enough lately, having the dual bad effects of losing readership and interest for the blog and letting my prose chops decay. So greetings from lovely Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport where I’m waiting for the first flight leg of the small circle trip. Background: I’m meeting with our [...]