Reading all these comments on Fox canceling the OC, for some reason I’m always reminded of some office humour Buying a stronger whip. Changing riders. Say things like, “This is the way we have always ridden this horse.” Appointing a committee to study the horse. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride…

I’ve been doing work around a personal aversion to the phrase “have to”. When I hear it, and especially when said to me, I always react “I don’t have to do anything”. I don’t think anyone “has to” do anything. I say let’s use more descriptive “need to”, “should”, “obligated”, “would like to”. All of…

Wrote an interesting little piece in creative class the other day. It was a moment when you hear the characters voice crisply, and it’s more dictation. Especially this, which was an odd mix of slang. Wasn’t sure what I was writing until I looked it over again. The telephone rang. I looked at the call…

Where have I been? I’ve been sitting on my couch and doing sweet FA. Why? Because I felt like it. To be honest, I’ve been in a funk. It’s not about earth shattering events in life. I haven’t gone through heart shattering events. Sometimes, I think, we all just hear a little “snap” inside. Could…

Last week I was on course for Advanced Server Administration for Solaris 10. The whole experience was eye opening and insightful. Some really nifty features that we covered were Zones, AutoFS, RAID and JumpStart. In the process are started to wonder if maybe there could be something here? Lately, I’ve been in a slump. It’s…