Classic Holiday Snaps ... we're moving on from San Francisco; an interesting place to visit but I can't say I've left my heart here. It's cosmopolitan, it's fun, there's plenty to see and do but being asked for a dollar on every street corner soon tires. Not saying homesick, but it sure makes me ....
I noticed it first at San Francisco airport, while waiting for the last member of our party to join us. A very VERY posh young lady walking around, also on the "meet and greet" run. And in her arms, this little dog carried as, it seemed, a fashion accessory.
Looking around here, this business of "t ....
We're into the forefront of technology ... and also into niche training. So how does that relate to this picture of the hairy woodpecker?
It's an inhabitant of a niche environment in the Big Basin park (near where we're holidaying), and it's specialised and does well in that niche. I felt there wa ....
I just wrote in an email enquiry about a course about "The first Apcahe http and Tomcat course of next season. Is our training really seasonal?
For us - involved in training primarily in the UK in Open Source languages and other technologies - it is, slightly seasonal but we're fortunate that the ....
Some things happen every day - or twice a day, or weekly ... in the background behind our web site - things like the rotation of log files, generation of reports and copying the Opentalk Forum into archives. We don't trigger these things manually!
On Unix and Linux systems, your crontab lets you se ....
Walking along streets yesterday it was quieter than usual - save for the people asking for money who seemed to be around in even greater numbers than usual. Perhaps that's because people are more generous to them at Christmas so they're all out - or perhaps it's simply because they've got fewer peop ....
"I want to show one picture on my website in the morning and a different one in the afternoon".
Doesn't that sound like it's a simple request ... yet - as ever with computing - it raises a whole lot more questions, with a raft of possible answers.
* Do you want the time from the server? Where's ....
Our amongst the holiday-season crowds yesterday ... we took in the Charles Dicken's Chistmas Carol at Midday at the local theatre, and in the afternoon took the streetcar to Pier 39. Tyler's first time in San Francisco, and he sucked in the place - the sealions, the shops, the arcades, the view out ....
Yesterday, I came across this group, well-worn from a heavy schedule in 2005, and looking as if they were slightly the worse for wear after their office party. Ah - the effects of the new drinking laws look like they've spread rather wider than the centres of our cities, and rather beyond the groups ....
will never be rich, yet I am rich already.
I will never be famous, but already I have fame.
Written on 22nd December, 35000 feet over Greenland. No internet connectivity so I'm left to my own wisdom and a couple of those bound bits of paper things called books.
One can always think of things to ....