My coding deathmarch continues - today I was sequestered away in my office, coding, emerging only for short periods to eat and drink and, um, act human.  More of the same tomorrow, but first a little blogging... I'm still on East Coast time, feels late.  Well it is late, but it feels later...

Greetings from Boston - 3/9/9, cooler in a way than 3/3/9, if less obviously so...  it was snowing today, so it was cool in more ways than one.  Fortunately I am safely ensconced in the Prudential center, and experienced the weather as a pretty vista through windows :) You are getting tire...

Ah, the life we lead...  had a wonderful dinner tonight with good friends at Bricco , in the North End of Boston...  beef carpaccio w parmesan cheese, zucchini blossoms stuffed with ricotta and infused with truffle oil, tortelli w pumpkin amaretti, accompanied by a bottle of the reliably a...

The Ole filter makes a pass...  from Bahstan...  had a fantastic dinner tonight, in the North End (Hanover Street), at a restaurant called Taranta, a combination Peruvian / Italian, beet salad w goat cheese, killer homemade ravioli stuffed with Porchini and artichokes, lamb shank marinated...

Today was a day of deep work, immersed in coding, on negative time trying to fix some bugs and ship something.  I tried to practice the Tyranny Antidote, eliminate all distractions, focus.  I was somewhat successful at this, but somewhat unsuccessful at the debugging.  A tough slog re...

I have a good friend whose sister delivered a baby girl today (congratulations!).  She emailed pictures, and as I'm looking at this teeny little being I was overcome by emotion.  There is something amazingly powerful about babies.  Of course we are all hardwired for reacting to babies...

A roller coaster day...  it began early, as I was up late, and then headed down immediately as I discovered a unplanned IT fire.  I also experienced a cold shower of reality reading the Monday morning news...  but later I had a couple of nice conversations with friends, which pulled m...

Getting caught up after a few days...  after my week-long funk I did have a nice weekend...  Friday we had dinner in Marina Del Rey with our friends from Ottawa, and that was fun, and Saturday I got my good old bike back , yay it’s all repaired and everything, and that made me pretty hap...

I have some fantastic news to report: I have officially recovered from my weird disaster !    check out this repair - new dropout was machined and bonded back into the stays looks really good    the axle alignment is perfect and we have a spiffy new derailleur    a happ...

Check this out, perhaps the ultimate multi-monitor setup of all time, intended for programming: Here we have four 24â€� full-page monitors in portrait mode, flanking two 30â€� monitors in landscape mode.   The hard part would be the video cards and drivers to make this work… As useful as scre...