A few weeks ago, my laptop went on the blink. It stopped booting to Windows 98. Sometimes you could boot it to ‘safe mode,’ sometimes you could boot it to DOS. I was too busy with the rest of my life to mess with it, so I let it sit. Last night I finally got [...]

I finally saw Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone this past week. So now I can fully thumb my nose at the philistines who’ve branded it a ‘dangerous’ movie (or here) that we should keep our kids away from. It’s a nice, imaginative fantasy movie. The special effects are pretty good. The kids are charming. [...]

jimformation redesigns again (looking great). Everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about the abacus Years ago, I discovered Danny Yee’s book reviews and I recently stumbled across them again. SmartWebby, despite the stupid name, has some great development resources and SearchEngineWatch has everything you need to know about, well, search engines.

Since is was Steve who turned me on to this whole blogging thing (and, for that matter, turned me on to this whole web design thing), it’s not without some sadness that I say so long his blog, sjarvis.com. On the other hand, I’m happy that Steve has now launched kudzudesign.com to maintain his design [...]

Caught Insomnia, Christopher Nolan’s followup to Memento. Good stuff. Also recently saw (for the first time) Cool Hand Luke. Looks like the Boy Scouts, in addition to not tolerating gay people in their ranks, are putting their foot down on atheists as well. It’s been pointed out that the BSA are a private club, so [...]