Friday, September 03, 2004

Although I have enjoyed using Userland Radio for the past several years, I am moving on to Moveable Type, and hosting my new blog on my hosting service. If you are a regular reader (all three of you??), please point your browsers to http://www.groupenable.com/weblog. I want to thank the folks at pycs.net for allowing me to hang out here for the past couple of years. You've been more than gracious. See you on the other side! 4:26:32 PM

	Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Today I feel like I'm in a time warp - I have to do some maintenance on a Visual Basic application, and have installed VB 6.0 and the MSDN library from 1999 on my new Windows XP laptop. There's a little fear that all of those old OLE/ActiveX components will mess up something in this newer OS, but so far things are still operating well. Now I have to remember how to program in VB, something that I used to do a LONG time ago........ 5:49:35 PM

	Monday, August 09, 2004

Hanging out at the Hampton Inn in Montgomery, Alabama. Woo Hoo. The new job has me traveling more, and seeing such metropolitan splendors as Montgomery, which seems to be stuck somewhere in the early 1970's.  We had lunch at a very small BBQ place named Sam's - it was pretty decent food. Can't say much for the ambiance of the place, tho. 7:01:10 PM

	Thursday, August 05, 2004

I'm back after a prolonged absence. No, not since October of 2003. I've re-installed Radio Userland from an old backup, and this is what I get.....   3:23:29 PM

	Sunday, June 15, 2003

Ah, Sunday afternoon and Father's Day. When you're the dad to six kids, Father's Day means lots of hugs, cards, and kisses. We've been painting the first daughter's room a bright green color (Carolina Parakeet!). It's bright green! Spring forever will reign in her room! I think summer has finally arrived in Georgia. The temps are in the upper 80's, the humidity is in the upper 90's, etc. etc.... We've had 4 inches of rain in the last 3 days, so we have beaten the drought, finally. 6:32:17 PM

	Thursday, June 12, 2003

NASA planning December shuttle launch with new rules. NASA is tentatively planning to return the shuttle to flight in mid-December under a... [spacetoday.net] We need to get the Shuttle flying again - get the bugs worked out, fix the problems, and get us back in space! 10:00:05 PM

cutting libraries while killing the commons. Commons-blog has a nice link to a story about Milwaukee libraries being defunded. Yet at the same time, extensions of copyright terms simply increase the cost of getting access to content. If every librarian signed our Reclaim the Public Domain Petition, then perhaps we could rebuild a public domain that could make the costs of libraries fall. [Lessig Blog] The death of libraries is the death of civilization. Ben Franklin's marvelous experiment was to bring books and the wealth that they bring to everyone - at least to the subscribers! If we kill the libraries, then we'd at least need to give everyone free internet access. I'm an old fashioned person - there's nothing like the feeling of a book in your hands. 9:55:55 PM

My first post on the new bloghost - many thanks to Phillip at pycs.net! 9:16:11 PM

	Saturday, May 10, 2003

NASA Gets a New Shuttle Chief. NASA appoints William Parsons to head up the shuttle program to replace Ron Dittemore, who announced his resignation in April. Parsons will have a tough road ahead, with the shuttle fleet grounded as the investigation into the fatal Columbia tragedy proceeds. [Wired News] 10:01:35 PM

We spent the day planting a pink dogwood tree bought for my wife for Mother's Day, and helping my mother clean out some stuff from their house. It always amazes me how mothers are such keepers of memories and things that remind them of their kids and the things they've done with them. We had a good time, but some of that old furniture was very heavy. 9:56:18 PM