My contract at BJC ended on Friday so I’m back in the job market. If you’re looking for a Linux/Unix developer with a wide-range of skills who can work from the St. Louis area, check out my resume.
Daniel Negreanu has written about what he thinks are the top ten mistakes that rookies make:
Bluffing too much.
Lack of patience.
Playing unaffordable limits.
Drinking alcohol while playing.
Quitting while you’re ahead.
Playing in tough games.
Elevated ego.
Playing too many hands.
Playing on tilt.
Playing too many hours.
Daniel expounds on these points in Rookie mistakes lead to disappointing games. I think I’ve [...]
Bank of America has a really clever promotion called Keep the Change:
Every time you buy something with a Bank of America Visa® debit card, we’ll round up your purchase to the nearest dollar amount and transfer the difference from your checking to your savings account free of charge. Because every bag of groceries, every coffee [...]
I received word today that it’s official: my long-time friend Adam asked Carrie to marry him and she said yes. I wish the both of you happiness!
Adam and Carrie, January 2005
I downloaded the free VMware Player and installed it on my work laptop this weekend. It lets you run a pre-made virtual machine. I took the browser appliance VM which is based on Ubuntu Hoary and upgraded it with apt-get to Breezy, installing some new packages to the image:
VMWare Player running Breezy Badger
Some tips [...]
I’ve been using Bloglines to read my news for a while now. Given that I use several different machines, a web-based feed reader is perfect. No matter what machine I’m at Bloglines knows what RSS feeds I’m subscribed to and what news I’ve already read. It allows me to organize by category, [...]
Continue reading about Interfaces: Bloglines vs. Google Reader
Woohoo! I won Free Book Friday at About Contemporary Literature.
Watch out, bloglines. Here comes Google!
What is poetry?
There are as many definitions of poetry as there are poets. Wordsworth defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings;” Emily Dickenson said, “If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry;” and Dylan Thomas defined [...]
bitter the mist
that hangs on my soul–
that fog I taste on my lips.
stale is the air
that seeps from my lungs
filling the hollow of night.
the flesh is torn
the spirit set free
Where Death, [...]
