Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. — Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Read 52 books. Yeah, I know. In 2011, 2012, and 2013, I read more than this. I like the number because it is a book a…
Read 52 books. Today, at the end of the year, I should be at 52 books read. I reached that point back on October 18th. My total for the year is 67. Post 180 blog entries. Today, at the end of the year, I should be at 180 blog posts published.  This post makes 186. So I made…
My main page on quotes is Quotes to Make You Think. Additional ones can be found under the Quotes tag. I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. — Michael Crichton The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything. — Anne Perry It always seems impossible until it’s done. —…
By author with links to reviews where they were. DONE — Adams, Richard — Watership Down DONE — Aesop — Aesop’s Fables; a new translation DONE — Ariely, Dan — Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions DONE — Ariely, Dan — The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home DONE — Ariely, Dan — The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone–Especially Ourselves…
Yesterday a friend pointed out Netflix is dropping some content on January 1st. This was in relation to the movie of a book we read for a book club earlier this month. So last night, while watching the movie, I noted through the web site all the movies in my list set to expire by…
When I hit the play/pause button the keyboard, a completely different song starts playing while the one I wanted to stop pauses. I kept hitting the button and listening to them alternate back and forth. Very odd behavior until I figured it out. Apparently both my normal MP3 player software and Amazon Cloud Player (ACP)…
Back in June, after a whole seven months in our system, one of our clients hit Microsoft’s limit in the max number of folders within a folder. They are on track to do it again a year later. I lost the first script I wrote to figure out which directories were affected, so I wrote…
Later this week both of our production systems will get upgraded from Desire2Learn 9.4.1 to 10.2. This will be an epic effort. Over several days a few dozen people will work on various aspect of the databases, application servers, and testing. Good ‘ole clean IT fun just in time for Christmas. Finding the magical gap…