In one week I will turn f’ing 58! There is no reversing time. But you can get stuck on a rock as the river flows around you.
A friend asked me a couple weeks ago on his birthday if I ever felt like letting go of trying to keep up with new developments in technology. I [...]
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Getting Older, Not Giving Up
I’m Thankful for These Podcasts
I know I should be pronouncing my gratitude for health, family, friends, good fortune and all that. And I am truly thankful for those things. But who couldn’t say that? Instead, I thought I’d take today to make a categorized list of my favorite podcasts. I go to the gym 2-3 times per week, and [...]
I Have Been Untwittered
Update 2: This morning my account was restored. Yay! It appears it was human error. Go figger.
Update: Apparently I am not alone. It seems there has been a sudden influx of suspended accounts. So something is awry with Twitter. It’s not me.
Suddenly, this afternoon, I stopped receiving tweets in my desktop application (Tweetdeck). So I [...]
Lay Fiber Everywhere Dammit!
Ars Technica points to a new bill introduced by Rep. Anna Eschoo. Here’s the essence of the bill/article:
The bill would require new federal road projects to include plastic conduits buried along the side of the roadway, and enough of them to “accommodate multiple broadband providers.” Conduits must meet industry best practices for size and depth, [...]
Surf Zone Class
Last weekend I summoned up the energy to haul my boat up to Crescent City for a surf zone class led by Mike Zeppegno and John Day. Wearing a collection of owned and borrowed equipment to keep the bay at bay, I plunged into the waves and tried to keep my kayak from turning upside [...]
The Apocalypse Approacheth?
So the interwebs are all a-flutter with the Swine Flu possible pandemic. You haven’t heard? Then you are not connected!!! Are you not using Twitter? Don’t you have your Google Alerts set to swine flu as it happens?
Seriously, the news cycle is now measured in nanoseconds and is unverified but replicated endlessly. Perhaps, this thing [...]
Humboldt Electric Vehicles
I went to the Bayside Grange breakfast this morning. If you haven’t been this is a fun community event with good eats! But today they had an exhibit of electric vehicles from the Humboldt Electric Vehicle Association. There was quite a line-up of vehicles from what looked like a completey fabricated hot rod (built for [...]
Sunday Kayak
Finally got out in my boat, today. A beutiful, sunny, calm day on Trinidad Bay. I was hoping for whales, but even though I paddled out to Pilot Rock and beyond, I didn’t see any. Others I talked to did. That’s OK. It was a great morning. Refreshing.
These photos were taken with my crummy IPhone [...]
Abe’s Humor, My Humiliation
Back when I was a kid we didn’t have President’s week, we had Lincoln’s birthday and Washington’s birthday and those were one day holidays. I guess we didn’t care about the rest of the presidents. No FDR day, no Jefferson day. And of course, no Calvin Coolidge day. Back then our teachers used the focus [...]
What I Should Be Doing Instead of Watching the Super Bowl
Movement on Still Water
The equipment thing is a huge hassle. First, of course, are the boats themselves. I understand there is a new contraption that lifts your boats to the top of your vehicle, but I still hoist mine on the rack with my arms and back, tip them on their sides then have to [...]
Hosting Woes
The other day we had a couple servers made inaccessible for over 9 hours. It was a disaster. The servers themselves were fine, but the data center where they live had a power outage. From what little information I have gathered, the power outage caused networking and router failures, so that even when power was [...]
Long Dark Days
I get up very early each day, and unless it’s raining hard go for a jog after a cup of coffee and a quick check of server logs to make sure the machines are running smoothly.
By daybreak I am nearly ready to head to the office. But on days like this the wet sky is [...]
Belated Resolutions
OK, since my birthday is one week after New Year’s I tend to conflate the two in terms of resolutions and starting anew. As each year passes I also get older, nearer the end (that is unless you subscribe to Ray Kurzweil’s theories). This makes resolutions more meaningful and pointless at the same time. So, [...]
Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!
Man, it’s been a busy time at Morse Media and I haven’t had a moment to finish a full blog post. Lots of tweets, though. I hope to change that soon. Lots of backlogged draft posts and ideas. In the meantime I want to wish everyone how happens across this old blog the Merriest of [...]
Get Congress on Twitter!
I have started using Twitter a bit more earnestly in the last couple weeks. I had put it off for along time, not really seeing the value. But now I am hooked and learning from it. I am working on a longer post about Twitter. But in the meantime here is a cool service that [...]