To all our troops,
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing what it takes to protect our way of life.
Thank you for the risks you take on my behalf.
You have my appreciation and the thanks of others like me.
Take care
Happy Birthday United States Marine Corps
Happy Birthday USMC
A big hug to my friends, and profound thanks to all of the Corps for your service and dedication.
Technology Wars
I’ve been working with computers since the beginning of time.
I’ve seen too many corporations, “killer apps” or “futures of computing” come and go to count. Hell, my resume is chronicle of the computer industry.
The devices get smaller, lighter, and to some extent smarter but the hype remains the same.
I survived the Mainframe vs Mini computer wars, Uhh the cheapest solution won…
Mini computers reign was fairly short lived because they fell to Micro-computers( aka personal computers), again in general the cheapest solution won.
Before you PC fan boys get all smug there was a time when the term PC was… well very P.C. and inclusively meant IBM, Tandy, Sinclair, a wide variety of hobbyist, and Apple machines.
I’ve listened to and occasionally participated in the PC vs Mac wars.
I’ve likened the latter to folks debating, “Which is better, a Bic or Monte Blanc?” both will write your name on a check to me just fine.
Both computer platforms are perfectly serviceable I’ve long held the thought that you should choose your computer just like you choose your pall point pen. Find something that you like and get on with your life.
The same is true of smart phones. I’ve had an iPhone, and a Blackberry, and now I’m on my second Android. I like the Android platform and the variety of phone and application choices available.
I’m platform /manufacturer agnostic, I’ll use my Mac most of the time, My Netbook (Win 7) when I’m out and about, and my Android without looking at an iPhone longingly.
All I ask of a device is that it freaking works and doesn’t annoy me or require that I perform troubleshooting exercises on a daily or weekly basis.
I think there will probably be no winner in the iPhone vs Android war. Just as there hasn’t been a clear winner in the PC vs Mac war.
I suspect that most of the pundits and wags feel the same way too. I guess they have to sell magazines and stir the pot to keep their jobs. So here’s a request. Hey guys, could you dial it down a notch?
Wake me up when the iPhone 6 is released.
This may not bode well…
The first Snow of the season…
It’s probably going to be great for the ski resort operators but for me it means cold, snow shoveling and more cold.
Yes I know it’s pretty. It’s always pretty after the storm has passed and the sun is out.
The Land of the Mouse is pretty but it’s an unbelievable amount of work to keep Mouseland clean, safe , & ready to receive guests.
I use that analogy because there will no doubt be a ton of “Guests” up here over the weekend to play in the white stuff. More often than you’d imagine, these people think we clear our driveways just so they’ll have a place to park.
A buddy and I have often said that we should wait till Summer, then just park randomly at a someones house in Orange County and go jump in their pool. We know we’d be arrested before our swimsuits were completely wet, so we don’t do it. However, a lot of these people are about as rude when they come to the mountains.
The reason I say this doesn’t bode well is not so much because of the snow players, but because it’s unusual for us to have snow this early in the year. More often we see snow after Thanksgiving usually in Mid December.
The early arrival of this cold storm and the more frequent rain in general make me think that we’re in for a longer Winter than we’ve had in a while.
Guess I better get out the mukluks & sweaters….
Stay warm & dry.
It’s a good day!
Aside from the pain in the ass nature of losing data on my server. One of my major worries was that I was also going to lose a ton of original photos.
In general I don’t ever erase or overwrite an SD card from my camera. Instead I treat the card like film negatives and just store them away.
But… And this is a BIG but, I didn’t always do that. It wasn’t until almost a year after the house fire (Where I lost everything) that I realized SD cards where actually pretty cheap and that I should just store them like negatives. During that period, I took a lot of photos and some of those were published, others made up part of my portfolio.
With the data crash I was pretty sure that I’d lost a ton of the pictures in that category.
This morning, I plugged in a portable hard drive and started browsing the data it contained. There was a folder labeled “Pictures”. Innocuous, unassuming…. AND it was a full backup of the my photo library!
There was singing and dancing over my morning coffee.
Another folder was called “Creative Writing” it contained all the writing I’d done through March 2011. So I’m a happy camper today. Yes there was some information that was lost but it appears that two of the areas I was really bummed out about… I had backed up.
I even found scans of receipts, and paystub information covering the last 4 years.
I guess sometimes being a compulsive asshole is a good thing!
