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In: Bipolar
18 Apr 2007I went back to my motherI said, "I’m crazy ma, help me."She said, "I know how it feels son,‘Cos it runs in the family."
The Real Me, Quadrophenia
Tags: Quadrophenia, the who, Pete Towshend, bipolar
In: Life
12 Apr 2007The Boston Marathon is this weekend, in case you live in a cave. In honour of this event, the CBC has a great story about the man who won the 1907 running: Tom Longboat. [here]
Tags: Tom Longboat, Boston Marathon
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
4 Apr 2007This morning, after months of increasing performance issues, and connectivity issues, I have retired the Boston Verizon measurement location. This location hosted 2 measurement agents.
The machines, hosted in my basement, are connected using Verizon FiOS, which has become increasingly flaky over the last couple of months. As well, the machines are 7 year old Pentium [...]
This weekend, we went to Maine and spent a wonderful time with the Bodines at the Sweetgrass Farm Winery. Things are rolling into high gear, and there is fruit in the vats, fermenting into fine wine.
I took the time to take some pictures in their old barn, and around the property.
If you like wine and [...]
In: RANTING| Software| Technology
10 Mar 2007March 10, 2007
When I defragment a disk, I like to know how much is left. It doesn’t have to be a graphical cue, but a percentage done can’t be hard to add.
Why doesn’t the right-click work in the message list in Outlook 2003?
Can you detect when a program is activated by an actual mouse event, [...]
I try and avoid the “me-too” factor that has dominated the land of blogs for most of the time I have been involved in it. Simply aping one persons comments with a slight variation, or personal interpretation doesn’t add much to the initial thrill of finding the original germ of an idea.
Kathy Sierra, someone who [...]
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| RANTING| Web Performance
16 Jan 2007It’s always funny when somewhat tech-savvy folks purposely make their bandwidth bills higher than they need to be.
Here’s TechCrunch’s HTTP header response.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:02:23 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2 PHP/5.2.0-8 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.0-8
X-Pingback: http://www.techcrunch.com/xmlrpc.php
Status: 200 OK
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=”UTF-8″
Port80 Software’s Compression Checker gives us some idea how much bandwidth Mr. [...]
In: Life
24 Nov 2006Up here in Maine, wineries are done the old-fashioned way. Back-breaking physical labour. Check out these photos of construction on the winery part of the winery (here).
However, the nicely framed and hospitable winery space has another side: The old barn with the trench down the middle. Well, yesterday it had a trench. After two days [...]
In: Life
23 Nov 2006So, how did you spend your Thanksgiving Day?
Keith is installing the run-off / septic tank for the Winery. Last week, in the heavy rains, the hole it was in filled with water and the tank was bobbing up and down in a pit of muck.
Now that the muck has been drained, he needed to make [...]
One of the lengthy conversations I have had with my wife as I work my way through understanding how my bipolar works and affects my life focused on how I think, and see the world.
I am just now coming to terms with the fact that the filters I process my world through are radically different than [...]