Archive for March, 2008



maurice ravel, thou art a scoundrel

10Mar08

This is what I have to look forward to in 9 hours or so:

Tomorrow morning, it will undoubtedly look even blurrier.

score one for the internet misfits

10Mar08

Dropping 22TB of patches on 6,500 PCs in 4 hours: BitTorrent

If you follow the feeds over in the Technology section of Digg (and if you are into geekery you surely do), you must have noticed the recent uptick in stories touting the legitimate uses of BitTorrent technology. This one caught my eye tonight because [...]

Up close and personal

10Mar08

Yesterday I spent about 45 minutes digging my car out of a snow fortress that had miraculously appeared thanks to the recent blizzard and the aftermath of gung-ho snow plow drivers. It was nice to do some physical work, however, and the appetite I worked up was promptly demolished with a direct action mission [...]

The pen is mightier than the sword…

10Mar08

… and my new Canon Rebel XTi digital SLR is mightier than … well … I’ll get back to you on that.

15 minutes of sun, 2 hours of post-processing, 1 great image.

09Mar08

The sun came out just long for me to enough to grab this shot.  I jogged down the street to a big parking lot where I would have a clear view of the show.  Turns out this would be the last sunshine before the massive blizzard which subsided today.  The Cleveland Orchestra canceled Saturday evening’s [...]