the flying squirrel

I’d planned posting more from Otakon, but technical issues conspired against me. That, and the con really wore me out. And posting seemed a little too much like work. I am, however, back, and if I have time to collect my thoughts, I’ll probably post bits and pieces about the con. It was a good [...]

Introductory note: we just sorted out Internet connections in the hotel. Day 1 is now pretty much finished, but I’m going to go ahead and chronicle Day 0 first. It’s that good. And so it begins. I’m still sitting in the passenger seat of Bill’s VW Golf in Ottawa. In a few minutes we will [...]

I’m still thinking about starting a little shareware company some day. A microISV, as it were. It’s pretty much a back-of-mind thing, but it’s there. The seed of an idea sittting around waiting for the right soil conditions or water or temperature or whatever else seeds in extended metaphors wait for. Tangentially, we went to [...]

I’m slacking off on the blog again. There’s a bunch of stuff I want to write about. Programming, project management, copyright reform, podcasts, books, raspberries, cedar hedges, yard maintenance, video games, music, Doctor Who, anime, food, urban planning, alternative energy, politics (ugh!), home decorating… Lots! My brain’s just not finding one digestably-sized chunk of a [...]