Spent a good day up at Alpental. It was my first ski day of the season. It’s so hard to arrange everything else to get away for the day. I’m breaking in a new pair of Solomon XWave boots. So far they are a nice upgrade from the Nordica boots I’ve had for the past [...]
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Five Things People Don’t Know About Me
Brent tagged me so I guess I’ll play along. Who knew tag went virtual? So here are five things people don’t know about me:
1. I really, really, really hate spiders
2. I took Fortran as my first computer language in college. Yeah, I’m that old.
3. The first summer out of high school I worked as a [...]
Powerless
I’m sitting in the dark after a massive storm here in Seattle last night. Being a real geek, I’m blogging via BlackBerry. My commute home was 3 hours last night. The power went out around 8:30 PM. It’s now been over 24 hours. The wind was as strong as anything I’ve ever seen.
I managed [...]
MacBook Pro: Take 2
My new MacBook Pro arrived the day after Thanksgiving. Amazing - I got my laptop all the way from Shanghai to my house in just over 2 days. The good news is that the new one appears to be working perfectly. However, there appears to be a single dead pixel near the top. Either I’m [...]