Month October 2007

Men don’t listen

My wife was complaining that I wasn’t listening to her. Not completely true. I heard her speaking but the meaning of her conversation didn’t really sink in. I was writing a blog entry and my focus was placed there. I’ve…

Bigots

I was reading an article in CIO Magazine, Eight Financial Reasons Why You Should Use Mac OS, which in summary stated: The fourth point was particularly interesting. In a study conducted by Gistics: Among many other findings, the authors concluded…

Turban Squash

There are many types of squash. What’s Cooking America cites 15 types of squash (and the Cook’s Thesaurus offers the variant names), including: Acorn, Ambercup, Autumn Cup, Banana, Butternut, Buttercup, Carnival, Delicata or Sweet Potato or Bohemian, Fairytail Pumpkin, Gold…

China, 2008

It’s time to start planning our vacation schedule for 2008. This year we are considering China. The first step is to settle on the broad objectives and then translate that into a proposed list of locations. The step following is…

Up on Leopard

Leopard was delivered today around noon, and it’s now installed. In preparation I: The installation process began after I returned home from work: Everything seems to be running; Time Machine is now backing up my system.