Archive for 'Personal'
Birth of a Counselor
(Think of this as the afterword to Death of a Programmer) On Friday, I turned in my ID badge and left my tech writing job at Equifax. On Monday, I’ll begin an internship that will allow me to become licensed to practice as a professional counselor (a psychotherapist) in Georgia. To an outsider, this seems [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2009 under News, Personal, Uncategorized.
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I Almost Fried my CPU
In 2003, I took advantage of an employee matching program to buy myself a new PC. In it’s day my Dell XPS was a pretty formidable gaming system. But five years on it’s barely holding its own. Worse, it’s loud. And by “loud”, I mean “loud like a passenger jet idling before takeoff.” I’ve tried [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2008 under Personal, Tech.
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Cellphone Cameras
I used to scoff at cellphone cameras. I didn’t see the point. Now I get it. That’s Ben and Thavy at Outback Steakhouse.
Posted: August 20th, 2008 under Ben, Personal, Thavy.
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Hey, Spammers: Hack This! (WordPress 2.6.1 Upgrade)
A couple of weeks ago, my bud Anthony pointed out to me that somehow, somebody had managed to sneak a ton of spam links into my site footer without me even knowing about it. I cleaned out the links and made a to-do to upgrade my WordPress from it’s pitifully out-of-date 2.0.4 version. Then this [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2008 under Meta, Personal.
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That Really Important Thing I’ve been Meaning to Tell You
I keep saying that this is a “personal weblog”, but I rarely say much that’s very personal. Okay, that’s all changing as of right now. While I’ve been blogging about the trivialities of movies, video games, and such, I’ve been quite busy with my new son Ben. Thavy found out we were pregnant in late [...]
Posted: November 15th, 2004 under Ben, Personal, Uncategorized.
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