Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Month: February 2008

  • False Spring

    As is typical, the temperature has warmed up to spring-like. Between now and Easter it will freeze at least once. The plants are already starting to bloom grow new leaves. Read and post comments | Send to a friend

  • Artemis

    If I were to turn to another deity, then Artemis would be my first choice. (Apollo my second.) The Moon Read and post comments | Send to a friend

  • Japanese Magnolia

    Japanese Magnolia, originally uploaded by Ezra F. My flowering bête noire. Was the groundhog wrong? This tree doesn’t think Spring is over a month away.

  • The Moon

    The Moon, originally uploaded by Ezra F. I am looking forward to the lunar eclipse on Feb 20th. It won’t require me getting up at 3am. 🙂

  • Tweets for Today

    13:09 Cyberstalker GH: Over lunch, I think I figured out what is #3… # 14:11 Poor Capella… # 15:46 Is this good or bad?: Compromise your own systems to get at the info you need. # 15:52 Mozilla Prism reaches no place to go when a site uses a self-signed SSL cert. That's no good.…

  • Product Confusion

    Someone hit my web site looking for “blackboard administrator certification”. So I was curious out what was out there on the Internet for this. I ran across a Blackboard training web site. In looking though the offerings, I was struck by the use of two different names for the same product. (I don’t mean like…

  • Artificial !Always= Better

    I fit the criteria of obese. My weight is not an obsession. I lost a good 20 pounds in a few months by making sure to walk 1.5-2 miles 4-5 times a week and not eating many calories. Thing is…. I am lazy. So I put that weight right back on after not maintaining the…

  • A Soliloquy Remake

    True? To update or not to update, that is the question; Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The freezes and crashes of sloppy code, Or to take arms against a sea of developers, And by opposing, end them. I know… It’s bad…

  • Tweets for Today

    09:49 … and I'm off to the big scary city. # 18:21 @galindafied Atlanta… Though its only scary for whether or not you'll have anything in your car when you get back to it. # 18:27 Talked to familiarish Laura after devotions. Turns out we were at the same Chi-town event (I was with @lgerard…