Gina and I went Saturday night with some friends to a place in West Fork, AR called the “Little O’ Opry” where the old-timers lay down some mean country music for several hours for six bucks. Guest musicians come up and play along with the house band (who were quite amazing). Highlights of the night [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately out at my dad’s farm, cleaning up his house so that we might eventually rent it. He’s in a retirement community now, and his former home is piled high with junk accumulated over the years (especially, it seems, caned food that has been there since time out [...]

Are blogs a means of self-expression or the final commodification of private experience? I go both ways on this one. Writing demands an audience, even if it is an imagined one. People with literary aspirations always have an image of their reader (however idealized) in mind as they write. Blogs, of course, are a much [...]

Finally, the U.S. Supreme Court has voted to strengthen fourth ammendment rights rather than weaken them. (For those of you who slept through your 9th grade civics class, the fourth ammendment to the constitution protects you, in theory at least, from unreasonable searches). Justice Scalia, with whom I rarely agree, hit the mail on the [...]

Today I grabbed the latest Win32 version of Apache and set it up on my laptop along with the free version of ColdFusion. I’m going to work on my CFML skills by translating some of my PHP apps to CFML.