Category: miscellaneous

Well one of the consequences of us selling out house is that my Blog will be going down for a few months. Not sure that it’s such a big problem as I doubt I will have time to write about anything. Anyway, since I am serving this from my home service (don’t tell my cable…

OK, so this is totally wierd. I couldn’t get Firefox to start up this morning and since I had just a few quick things to do, I loaded up IE. I went to by WP admin page and voila, it loads in seconds. So now it seems the slowness I was experiencing when trying to…

I had two very different football experiences this weekend, with a surprising similarity.  On Saturday, my Kentucky Wildcats traveled to Bloomington, Indiana to play the Hoosiers, members of the Big 10 conference.  It was a very disappointing game.  We got run over in almost every aspect of the game.  we couldn’t run…they ran all over…

Guess I will have to be doing more of my posts on the road.  For some reason, now that I have switched my home broadband service, my access to my WP admin page has really slowed down.  The blog page itself still loads fine, but the admin page takes for ever.  What’s really odd is…

Some of you may know that we’ve been in the process of finding a new house.  We found the perfect one a few weeks ago and went ahead and made an offer that wasn’t contingent on the sale of our existing home.  That put us in the uneviable position of having to pay two mortgages…

The IT market continues to consolidate. The hourglass shaped market continues to form with the big behomths at the top and open source on the bottom. Not sure what this portends for the future…will tech be as good a place to work when there are only 3 big companies to work for? Oracle to buy…

Just a quick post from the hospital.  My wife is having a few elective procedures and I am hanging out offering my support.  The hospital has come a long way in the past few years.  I can remember visting here when my Grandmother was ill and they wouldn’t even let you use your cell phone…

Those of you who are long time readers of my blog know that I have an addiction to rooting for loosing sports teams, specifically football.  I love the Cincinnati Bengals, to the point that no other team would have me as a fan.  I also love my Kentucky Wildcats, in both their natural sport of…

I know it’s a bit late, but I wanted to express my sympathies to all those affected by the destruction caused by Hurrican Katrina.  I have only been to New Orleans once, but I had a great time and I know how much the people there made up the experience.  I can’t beleive how much…