Category: miscellaneous

We went out walking last night to find something to eat and stretch our legs after being on planes and buses for 20 hours. Outside the back of our hotel near Shinjuku a new eatery has opened up that seems to be quite popular with the locals. This picture was taken at around 8:30 PM…

I’m blogging this from seat 1D on DL flight 55 (yes, the boarding door is still open).  This will be the longest flight I have ever been on.  Fortunately I am in business class, so it shouldn’t be so unbearable.  Still 14 and a half hours is a long time to spend in any one…

.!. While I (and I imagine a lot of people) thought that PDF was already managed by ISO or some other standards body, evidently I was wrong.  According to a press release issued today they are routing a version of the PDF spec through a process that will result oversight by ISO.  Of course the…

I’m not out of the woods yet, but things are looking up for me getting some use out of the extended battery I bought from Battery Geek. As I posted previously, I had a terrible time at first with them getting a battery that worked.  I sent an RMA in that was gone of more…

Didn’t know Eddie was blogging, but it seems he noticed our little news yesterday.  I agree Eddie, we have come along way.

This is one of the funniest parody web sites I have seen in a long time. Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life Inkheart movies

As an engineer (by degree anyway) this was all I needed: a formula to project what I will procrastinate on! Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Why Do Today What You Can Put Off Until Tomorrow — A 10-year study of procrastination provides insights into–and a formula for–human motivation

Many of you may know that I moved last year a bit farther away from my office last year so we could get the farm we had been looking for.  I have about a 100 mile round trip commute each day.  The nice thing about it is that I am traveling against traffic each way…

UPDATE: Not sure if this is a demonstration of the power of a blog or not, but I just got an email from the BatteryGeek guys that my new battery is on its way.  I’ll provide another update when it comes.  Hopefully this one will work better than the last. I posted in the fall…