This is a follow-up to my posts on Where have all the children gone and More on the “Missing Children”. Bruce Schneier writes about how overprotective we’ve become of children. He quotes a story of a mother who lets her son take the New York City subway home on his own, trusting him to follow… Continue reading More on “Where have all the children gone”
WordPress 2.5
Well, I took the plunge and upgraded to WordPress 2.5. I’m actually quite surprised – I didn’t look at any of the release candidates, so the new style (for the admin interface) is totally new to me. I have to say I’m quite taken with it (although I did switch back to the “classic” color… Continue reading WordPress 2.5
Clothing
I was re-reading Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon again last night (for about the 5 millionth time) and I thought I’d share this lovely passage, which really, um, speaks to me. 😉 “It is trite to observe that hackers don’t like fancy clothes. Avi has learned that good clothes can actually be comfortable – the slacks that… Continue reading Clothing
Silliness from the Past
Way back when burning CDs was still a novel thing, I used to derive great pleasure from compiling custom CDs and creating full artwork and whatnot for them. (Click on any of these images for the full-size image.) This is one of the very first ones I did. The idea was, suppose my life was… Continue reading Silliness from the Past
Outlanding in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
I found a new place to go Outlanding! It’s a bit of a drive from where I am (about an hour and 45 minutes), but it’s BIG and has all sorts of trails of all different types and best of all… it’s legal to go there! Of course, I’m talking about the Pine Barrens here… Continue reading Outlanding in the New Jersey Pine Barrens