My birthday is on Monday, which isn't exactly unexpected. It'll be the 29th consecutive year that it happens, so I'm getting used to it. It's definitely better than the streak being interrupted!
A few years ago, I started a new tradition for any birthdays that fell on a weekday. On said days, I would take a [...]

This past weekend was a lot of fun. I went to southern Maryland for a wedding and also had the opportunity to hang out with some friends and family. Assuming you don't live there, have you been to the Washington, DC, area recently to see any friends and family?
I know you must know someone there [...]

Here's something I didn't expect to hear on the SecurityNow computer security podcast:
"Can I be a turd in the punch bowl here?"
I can now say that being a work-at-home programmer has saved my life, because if I was driving to work and heard that, I would have laughed myself right into a flaming ditch. (Little [...]

My latest complaint about winter is the constant shocks that come with touching, well, pretty much everything. Touch a wall: zap! Touch a car: zap! Touch my cat: zap! And scratch!
Ow.
And the worst zaps are "twitchers," the zaps that actually make some muscles twitch and therefore cause me to move involuntarily. I turned off a [...]

One advantage to being a telecommuter (i.e., someone who works in his pajamas) is that your co-workers can be anywhere. They could be next door, or the next state over, or even on Mars -- if the internet could get out that far. (Psst, it does.) In my case, I have a new co-worker in [...]