[FINAL UPDATE: 5:17 pm on 12/21/06]: Last few photos. [UPDATED 12:10 pm on 12/21/06]: Yet more photos. [UPDATED 9:00 am on 12/21/06]: I’ve added more photos. [UPDATED 7:34 am on 12/21/06]: I’ve added photos. Well, we were planning to be in San Diego for Christmas (we being myself, my wife Sandra and our daughter Emily). […]
I’ve known Ruby for a decade or so. She came up to me after I gave a session at a technical conference on the need for leadership in IT organizations and offered both cogent observations and useful criticisms. We’ve been friends ever since and just recently co-authored an article for Cutter IT Journal titled “The […]
Well, the WordPress problem continues, so I can only post from my server system at home. Combined with the travel I’ve been through over the past several weeks, I haven’t gotten on here much. However, I’m not going anywhere until Christmas, so I’ll aim at posting daily here. ..bruce..
I get to have some interesting encounters in my job. For the last 18 months I have been campaigning first in the DoD and then in the commercial space to bring to market a new kind of software. It’s job in life it digest massive amounts of data and event information to come up with […]
It’s called Deviation, and it’s “filmed” within the FPS game Half-Life: Counter-Strike. Since I have three sons who collectively have spent more hours and years playing first-person-shooter games than I can comfortably conceive, I find the film particularly amusing. ..bruce..
There’s been some controversy lately over the plans of a Massachusetts elementary school to ban tag. Elle Dee, over at this is by us, has started a thread named “Games We Played that were Much Worse than Tag“. Here was my own contribution: Back in 1958-60, our family lived in the West Kalayaan US Naval […]
As per request, some additional information on the housing market in the US. Rather than pull someone else’s good work today, we are going to delve into the output of an interesting and unique piece of software that called “Hardtack”. Hardtack is a system that “strip mines” a variety of MLS databases (real estate multiple […]
The Busher Reactor Under Construction in Iran – 2004, Digitial Globe Quickbird 2 As some of you may have guessed, I try to stay current on world events dealing with ongoing and potential military conflicts, especially where they involve ongoing or potential proliferation of WMDs. Cruising by one of the Arms Control Blogs, I see […]
I’ve reached that point in the election season where I largely keep the TV off, except to watch shows that I’ve already recorded on my DVR and thus can hit the ‘CM SKIP’ button to help skip over the endless political attack ads. This ad, however, is an absolute hoot, as if a few of […]
From the ever-worthwhile McSweeney’s, here’s an excerpt of the findings from the Committee on Promotion and Tenure: Demonstrates suitable experience and expertise in chosen field: The committee concurred that Dr. Jones does seem to possess a nearly superhuman breadth of linguistic knowledge and an uncanny familiarity with the history and material culture of the occult. […]
