I was happy to be able to get a review of the new 2008 Spring Flash into The Register, one of the biggest U.K. tech news sites - sometimes writing lots of nitpicking letters to journalists pays off, who knew :). Of course, it was good that their reviewer liked it - that always helps…
Spent […]
Baseball’s a strange world sometimes. Recent goings on with the Mets:
First, we make a low-risk trade for a veteran pitcher (Jose Lima). He has past success (1998-1999 in Houston, pitched over 230 innings each year, 37 wins combined, ERA under 4) and a poor recent record (2005 in Kansas City, only 5 wins with an […]
So I lost the first round of the Coquitlam Open 3.5 yesterday 7-5 6-2, mostly due to some extremely dodgy calls on the part of my opponent. First up, I’m serving 30-40 down at 1-1, second serve, a ball from the next court rolls onto our court, he stops play to send it back, then […]
Hmm, time for a general-y update.
The best thing to happen lately is that the weather suddenly got much better - it stopped raining last weekend and hasn’t started again yet. Thus I managed to play tennis six days out of seven last week, which was nice (if rather tiring and, by Sunday, inducing nasty cramps […]
So, time to cover everything in one post…
Kat: I had a nice email exchange with Kat’s author, who was understandably miffed at me for ripping his baby and made it clear that he doesn’t think of Kat as a simple desktop search application but as a framework which will eventually pervade KDE. I’m happy to […]
Eyechart just nearly hit a home run. I nearly fell out of my chair in shock…
Well, Cooker had the Apache default package swapped from 1.3 to 2.0 and PHP from 4 to 5, something changed in the Apache config file and stopped the server running. Ah well. Back up now. Might be down overnight occasionally in the next few weeks, the cable network is being upgraded.
Saw the Mets win a […]
Know my biggest bugbear with baseball umpiring? The phantom out at second base. David Wright got called out for interference on a wide slide at second base in the game against the Braves today; on the merits it was a fair call, he was a couple of feet wide of the base making his takeout […]
So, Damien orders me to write about baseball in my blog, so write I must! Just saw my first Mets game of the season, having carefully avoided the first five losses, and I have this to say - Pedro Martinez is God. A two-hit, one-run complete game against the Braves is great pitching under any […]