Content Shuffle
I’m moving all of the non-work related content from my Sun Microsystems blog over to the Snowman, mostly to separate personal stuff and give it a long-term home. So you’ll see about 300 new blog entries show up, but none of them very recent — search, category results, tag results, and some cross-references will play [...]
Channeling Relief to Haiti
Local tragedies have a way of uniting us globally. I was first made aware of this when Roberto Clemente, much beloved Pittsburgh Pirate, was killed in a post-earthquake aid and goodwill ambassador role in his native Nicaragua. All of baseball mourned #21, who was just responding through the goodness of his heart. This week’s disaster [...]
How Not To Do Yoga
About a month ago, I started going to yoga classes with my wonderful wife in an attempt to regain some flexibility, perhaps slowly get back into “skating shape” and just enjoy a little adult time with my spouse. It’s been fun, mostly because our yoga instructor is patient, tolerates my constant chatter, and will let [...]
The 2009 List
It’s that time of year again. And what a long, strange trip of a year it’s been. Some thoughts from 2009: Work moment.Trip to India in April, at the tail end of a tour that took me to Mexico City, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Bangalore. While meeting with the technical managers in the Bangalore office, someone [...]
Science, Faith, Social Networks and One Young Man
The holiday season is now in full tilt, with last minute shopping and shipping, final touches to decorations, parties, and either dread or hopeful expectations of time with our families. My own interpretation of this feeling is that captured in the shehecheyanu, the Hebrew prayer said the first time you do something each year, simply [...]
Dumb Ass Tourist Handbook
It’s marathon weekend in New York. Thanksgiving is on the horizon. Daylight savings time ends tonight. All harbingers of extreme numbers of tourists in the Big Apple. I’ll set the record straight up front: Tourists fuel a good part of the retail economy in New York. Come here, spend your Euros or dollars, enjoy the [...]
WordCamp NYC
I’ll be at WordCamp NYC on November 14-15, helping out, handing out t-shirts, and generally saying “hi” to other WordPress bloggers and developers. I’m hoping to have a sample chapter or three of the upcoming WordPress book I’m co-authoring with Brad Williams of WebDevStudios and Dave Damstra. In the meantime, make sure you vote for [...]
Inaugural Optimism
I am breaking a few self-enforced “work rules” this morning, and I feel no shame or guilt about it. I have the television in my office turned on to watch the inaugural proceedings, sound turned down, but a distraction anyway. I should be preparing for an upcoming conference call, but I’m blogging because I’m captivated [...]
The Snowman Vote
Chalk this up to the wonders of Google PageRank and the ability of the net to help convolve people with similarly evolved interests. Bob Eckstein, author of Today’s Snowman blog as well as the History Of The Snowman book, has included yours truly in the current snowman vote. Eckstein found both of my snowman-oriented blogs [...]