May 2012
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5/21/12 03:09 pm
I've been keeping my racing and writing websites separate so that people could subscribe to the topics which interested them.
http://www.fastlizardracing.com/
http://www.jorhett.com/
I've been toying around with the idea of combining the sites -- of putting motorcycle information on jorhett.com and getting rid of the motorcycle-specific site. What do you think about this idea?
Obviously it's less work to maintain one site, but I'm wondering if either one of these becomes moderately successful if it would annoy people to see updates about race finishes on a site by a writer they are following, or updates about selling stories on a site by a racer they are following...
5/16/12 10:20 am
Net Consonance was originally a full time consulting business. We did a lot of network and internet design work for companies. We put a lot of effort into improving open source software, and sending the improvements back upstream.
Over time each of the Net Consonance engineers has ended up with full time employment at various companies. There is no longer a dedicated office for Net Consonance, and we have no fulltime employees. Was it time for us to retire the brand? Read the rest of this entry » This has been cut for brevity to my livejournal friends. You can read the entire article is posted at http://www.netconsonance.com/2012/05/rethinking-netconsonance/.
5/6/12 06:24 pm
I'm struggling to decide whether or not to keep the Boxee device. It is downright awesome for playing media I've downloaded off the Internet, but it sucks at most other things. Notably that it crashes fairly often in most of those apps, and I find myself rebooting it a lot.
Obviously I could purchase a Mac Mini and use that instead, but I like the idea of an appliance -- something that Just Works and doesn't need me to administer it.
I'm curious if there are any better choices I am overlooking.
Note: anything which forces me to pay for each thing I watch is out of the question. I like the idea of movies on demand, but most of the things I watch are not available in the pay-to-play portfolios and/or are completely free to download and watch on your own. So Apple TV and Roku are definitely not options for me. I need something which will play DivX downloads for example.
5/3/12 10:48 pm
I am about to dump a large amount of hanging file folders with some amount of tables folders inside, and a box full of empty CD cases -- both thick/standard and slim style.
If anyone wants any of these, speak up and we'll arrange to get them to you.
These are all left over from a business I used to run that has passed 7 years and I finally get to trash all the paperwork associated with it. Dunno why I kept the CD cases so long.
4/25/12 01:42 pm
A week or so ago I announced I was back. Well, kindof. Minimum functionality had been restored, but I've obviously been deeply busy trying to bring the house and my life within the new house back into play. So yeah, not really available to any of you. And totally not meeting my commitments to anyone either.
This needs to change. I miss ya'all.
I'm trying. My goal is to be a real person, available for hanging out again by the 5th of May. It's a goal. Looking forward to relaxing a bit into my life by then.
4/17/12 11:14 pm
I really like Naked and Famous. So much so that after Nova grabbed up tickets to see them at the Warfield this Saturday, I went and bought another pair of tickets. 'cause I like them so much. Yeah, that's the story and I'm sticking to it. *grin*
ANYWAY, first dibs on these tickets to my friends here before I toss them up on craigslist. Anyone else really like Naked and Famous? Want to see them on Saturday?
And if you don't know who Naked and Famous is, you really need to watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCcUXEC5_eU
4/10/12 09:49 am
Do any of you know a good primary care doctor with a sports medicine background in Valley Medical or any other group in the San Jose area? I need to switch away from my current doctor, and I'd like to find one closer to home.
I am deeply frustrated by Palo Alto Medical Group. They have hundreds of computer systems, but they seem to be lost by them. They gather lots of information, but can't put it together. I just commuted through a bunch of morning suicide drivers on a motorcycle in the rain to an appointment at PAMF which was unnecessary, and needed to be scheduled AFTER a different thing. They had computers to call me and remind me to show up, but they couldn't look in their computers after determine that they needed drug tests before the appointment, and schedule those too.
This is a situation where a human with paperwork would be better than a human who trusts a computer to do their job for them. This isn't the only time that I've had to take control and force them to follow a useful process. Their computers have taken over, their training and personal judgement is gone, and PAMF is completely lost within their computer systems. I feel that they are completely unsafe for me to rely upon them for medical judgement.
Now that I am living in San Jose, I'd like to find a medical group who knows how to use their computers to assist their knowledge and training, and isn't completely lost within them.
4/9/12 10:35 am
You know, I managed to totally forget that LiveJournal was well known for drama drama drama. I wandered into a particular conversation on someone else's LJ, and posted a not-well written comment far too early in the morning, and voila! Here some the deliberate misinterpretations, and statements that absolutely defy reality. Ooops.
Thank god for Delete. No, it's not gone -- thar Interwebz have it forever somewhere, but hopefully the nastiness will fall out of my e-mail sometime soon. And I will never again post outside of my small group of friends here.
It is amazing how many people think that being utterly nasty to someone is a great way to encourage better thinking. It's not a gender thing, both sides are equally guilty of this. If you want to raise the standard of conversation, be part of that change.
4/6/12 06:12 pm
Okay, okay it's time for me to emerge from my hole where I've been hiding.
We seem to have finished moving from one place to another, but we are still getting sorted at the new place. It's a good thing, I'm very happy with the new house. Just crazy busy getting everything done. But I can see the end of the tunnel now, we're getting there.
Very soon to be having a house-warming party, likely in early May.
Those of you who are waiting on me for anything, you'll likely be getting it very soon. But do me a favor and drop me a note and remind me, especially if you'd like to have it sometime soon. Those that remind me will get preferential treatment.
And thank you for putting up with me dropping off the face of the planet.
3/5/12 07:32 pm
It would appear from the Doubletree reservations website that Westercon 65's hotel room block is sold out. If anyone else knows a way to get a reasonable rate, I'm interested. But if I'm forced to buy at the currently quoted rates ($229/night) I won't be going.
What the hell is wrong with Westercon that they wouldn't get options on a larger room block? It's one thing to sell out a hotel. It's completely bad planning to run out of rooms without having sold out the hotel.
EtA: this problem appears to be solved, and I've gotten my reservation now.
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