The creators of The Sims have made a bunch of music tracks from the varions Sims titles available. They’re free and they’re a trip to listen to. They feature such Simlish language tracks as the perennial hip hop favorites “Downarown…
I’ve had a few intense conversations with friends and family over the course of the last week or so regarding the eventual fate of Terry Schiavo. I come solidly down on the side of “leave the tube in, because there’s…
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, US airline passengers have tended to be far more vigilant and willing to step out and restrain potentially dangerous fellow travelers. Unfortunately, this new willingness to act, combined with a very “large”, very…
Yesterday and today have been a bit, well, uneventful. My wife and I spent most of our day yesterday over at my parents’ house, enjoying food, family and a rousing game of “Scattergories”. A good time was had by all.…
As human beings, we tend to have a bit of trouble keeping our eyes and thoughts concentrated on the things that God would have us focus on. We have short attention spans and a variety of physical needs and desires…
Inquiring minds want, nay, demand to know. Found by way of nobrainer.
Ugh. Today’s just dragging along. Service ticket volume is low today (incredibly so, in fact). I do have a long-term project that I should be working on, but I just can’t seem to gin up the requisite willpower to tackle…
I’ve recently upgraded my primary desktop at work to a rather beefy AMD FX-55-based box (running the recently-released RedHat Enterprise Linux version 4) and while I love the speed gained by moving to a 64bit processor and scads of RAM,…
Our pastor has been conducting a sermon series on the book of Job over the last several weeks and he finished up this past Sunday with a runthrough of Job 42. Here’s the verse that struck me (Job 42:10) surrounded…
Over the past 5 years or so, a term has arisen in the web-savvy world: LAMP-powered. In the generic case, LAMP stands for “Linux – Apache – MySQL – PHP (the “P” can also stand for Perl). This combination of…
