You know, there’s nothing like a summer night in New England. We don’t get too many scorching ones, and at night it’s even more rare to feel the heat. Tonight I’m just sitting on the deck of the Sapphire, writing the EXL camp book by the light of a citronella torch. There aren’t many bugs, [...]
So I spilled over a little in frustration the other day. I stand by that; I for one don’t believe that the Internet is Different and a little spilled-over truth and honestly is a bad thing. Some flinch from it instinctively but I don’t see demons behind every byte online. Well, demons any different than [...]
So I’m no longer the MFL president, hallelujah hallelujah. After NCFLs, I was totally wiped; the week prior work — largely, me — had organized a two day workshop and symposium that required my full attention, and then immediately afterward (during, in fact) I ran off to Albany, for another five days requiring my full [...]
…for the past two weeks, I’m sorry. I was taking something of a sabbatical from everything except the most pressing things in my email inbox. I used a very very conservative definition of “most pressing.” I’m catching up to the backlog now. What’s amazing is how much just having to do my day job every [...]
So I intended grand things in home improvement this weekend. Saturday I had to go to work, because when you have to shut down major computer clusters, you do it on the weekend in order to not disturb folks. So I went in, and started to copy a terabyte of data from a storage array [...]