Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category

Commuting to work in Ann Arbor on a bike - DAY 3

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

Day 3 has come and pass and I've made it through. In retrospect it was a very smart choice to begin on a Wednesday.  This let me have 3 days to get into the groove followed by two days to heal. I'm getting into a groove now and had few problems on ...

Commuting to work in Ann Arbor on a bike - DAY 2

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Another day, another commute to work and back on the new bike. Today the excitement and anticipation had worn off and the fact that I'm actually commuting on a bike to work set in.  It wasn't an overwhelming thought, but more of a happy one. It took me about a mile to ...

ParentHacks

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

I rather like my suggestion over on parenthacks.com. I reccommend you check out the site if you've got a little one running around causing all sorts of trouble. They've got clever tips, obvious tips, and everything in between. Even if you only pick up a few things a week, throw the ...

The evils of American “multiculti”

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

Not much logic to history. Big names in civilizations come and go, at the whim of unpredictable trends and processes. One of the ugly realities of modernity is that the world has become a junkyard of failed ideologies. To live in the present is like trying to relax on the ...

Welcome to PHP5… [php4 vs php5]

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

It's time to start using PHP5 in a production environment. It has made it's way to 5.1.2. What exactly does PHP 5 give you that PHP 4 doesn't though? It has real objects. What does this mean though -- it means that real Constructors and Destructors. Autoloading Objects, Visibility, a Scope ...