I need to do some work to figure out the best way to use two computers in the house effectively. The problem is most applications, and their data stores, are designed with single-computer use in mind. I have server-based storage spage, but it’s not the easiest thing to manage documents/data on the server at all…

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And the drumbeat continues. I just finished The Ionian Mission, the next Aubrey-Maturin novel. O’Brian must have felt the momentum of his series building by this time, since he spends very few pages on (re)introducing his cast of characters before launching them off to the Toulon blockade. Overall, this stanza feels like a quieter part…

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Since I only brought three of the Aubrey-Maturin series on my vacation, I wanted to slow down and wait before jumping into the last of the three. So I found a paperback thriller, A Certain Justice, by John T. Lescroart. About what I expected. 500-odd pages fly by. The author throws in a few twists…

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The Surgeon’s Mate jumps right into the breach where The Fortune of War left off, in Halifax, Canada. I wish these books had maps in them, as geography matters a great deal. I know Halifax is a seaport on the eastern shore of Canada, but I cannot pinpoint it more thoroughly. Nor, when Aubrey, Maturin,…

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Vacation led me to take up Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series once more. I left off with Desolation Island, so next up was The Fortune of War, where Jack and Stephen start in England, lose their ship to fire east of Brazil, and are taken prisoners of war by the Americans (yes, it’s ~1812). Much of…

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I would prefer to be sleeping, but instead I’m typing because I couldn’t fall asleep. Can I bore myself enough to put myself to sleep? An interesting philosophical discussion for another time. Right now, I’ll just try and catch up on 500-odd posts in NNW. Argh.

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Don’t answer that. I missed posting, honestly. I even wrote a few book notes, which I’ll post this weekend, but since the desktop was sleeping, the email-to-blog feature of Radio which I’ve used successfully before was not effective. Good to be home again, even after two great weeks of leave/vacation.

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Going to be quiet for a bit. And I have to return to (shudder) dial-up. Do you still have a modem?

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Nothing like squeezing 50+ hours into four days of work to get you ready for vacation. I left things as tidy as possible at the office, and I found out about one of the coolest things I’ve seen: Remote Desktop Connection. I was recently upgraded to WindowsXP Professional on my office laptop. Now, after some…

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How to recognize blog software by its URL and, separately, deconstructing article URLs. Enjoyable reading for me. Scary, isn’t it?

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