Chris

Super Ouch!

My very good friend Dave Edwards lives in Salt Lake City, Utah and continually makes us all jealous that he’s got season passes to Snowbird and I think a couple of other places in the immediate area. He can basically finish up classes for the day (at U of Utah) and run up the hillContinue reading “Super Ouch!”

Moved to WordPress

So, after pulling for the little guy, I have finally switched to WordPress. I’m sorry to the Java folks out there. I really did want to use a Java-based blogging engine. However, Roller simply did not meet my needs: Run on a Cobalt Qube 2 Run for more than a week without crapping out IContinue reading “Moved to WordPress”

Doughnuts! I like Doughnuts!

I’ve been a software developer for quite some time, and at my last job, I was indoctrinated into the practice of buying doughnuts for the development team if one of the developers “broke the build”. For those who don’t know what that means, let me tell you. Any decent software project has a central repositoryContinue reading “Doughnuts! I like Doughnuts!”

Your Javascript Sucks

First of all, you can’t win using Javascript in a browser. There’s always some stupid bug, either in the browser or in the Javascript itself, or in the site which uses it, or whatever, which prevents your Javascript from working properly. There, I said it: Your Javascript will break. Given that cosmic truth, why doContinue reading “Your Javascript Sucks”

It’s Good to be Smart

I recently purchased a wireless ethernet USB adapter from D-Link – the DWL-122 to be exact. It turns out that the item was defective, and I called customer support to get an RMA number to return the adapter. I went through all the hoops that I despise, even though I know that the customer supportContinue reading “It’s Good to be Smart”

Backbreaking Futility as Relaxation

For years, my family has taken a vacation to Cape Cod, Massachusettes. My only requests for activities have been: Eat Seafood (especially Lobster) Build sand castles The second activity is pretty much more of a requirement than the first, and I need to spend every possible day on the beach busting my butt building aContinue reading “Backbreaking Futility as Relaxation”

United States Congress: Don’t legistate religious doctrine

I recently received an email from, honestly, one of the most annoying political action groups that I know of. MoveOn.org. I say that they are annoying mostly because I get an urgent email from them just about once a day telling me about the latest injustice inflicted upon US citizens by the Bush Administration. IContinue reading “United States Congress: Don’t legistate religious doctrine”

Customer “Support”

This morning, I was having trouble sending email. I have Comcast Cable Internet services, and there didn’t seem to be anything on their web site about any outtages or anything, so I thought I’d get onto their LiveSupport chat thing and quickly talk to a person. Now, let me tell you: this LiveSupport chat thingContinue reading “Customer “Support””

Uncle Chris

When we were young, I used to threaten my older sister with the thought of me being the uncle to her children. Well, things have changed since then, and I’m proud to say that this morning, I became an uncle for the first time. Joshua Hinton Suggs, born 09:18 2004-06-17, 7lbs 8oz. Uncle Chris, indeed.

Vindication

Several weeks ago, one of the servers that I manage suffered a hard drive failure :(. The machine itself was, ahem, on the low-end of the server-capable scale for Java applications (P3 500MHz with 256MB RAM), and honestly, we were getting a great deal on it. Since the disk failed, and we needed to doContinue reading “Vindication”