Mephistos

Specifically it is the dungeon of 1387 tortures, a line that comes from Second Hand Lions, a movie of most excellent qualities.  As I watch it on television for the upteenth time that I have seen it I am reminded once again of just how much I love this movie.  I am not sure the why I like it so much, other then as I get closer to where the two older men in the movie are in age I begin to understand the washed up feelings that are so represent in that movie.  It is also worth noting that just about every person that I have ever watched that movie with at some point or another has indicated that I am likely to end up like the two main character and already have a lot of the characteristics that they have. Read more…

A few days back I went with a few friends out to a gallery hop in Lexington.  The idea of the gallery hop is that several different galleries in the and near the downtown area are open late, all have exhibits of some nature.  And to encourage some social interaction most have the artist present along with some finger foods and beverages, including much cheese and wine.  Read more…

Yesterday I was hard on some technologies. Today, despite having found even more technology things to be down about, I thought I would make note of a couple of positives. I need to be more positive in my life right now anyway. First though, I thought I would make a note of why so much technology, especially that with computers and especially software gets so messed up sometimes. First, we are writing code for a several million different possible combinations of hardware platforms, and while it all should met some standards, it is still different. Second is the way we end up using softare is not the way it was intended often, not to mention trying to design stuff that makes a feature guy like me happy and yet still works with the lowest end by knows how to get the computer on user too. Lastly is the just the development cycle and cost of testing all of the differences above. At some point a vice-president says it has got to go out and of course in my favorite word, the GPL/GPU licensing, we release it to get feedback and testing to make the next one better.

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Just what is it with the technology gods these days.  Yes, I said lower case technology gods, as they do not deserve a capital letter these days.  It seems like everything that I have tried that has been new or especially an update in the last week or two has turned into an ordeal or at the very least really made me have a sour look on my face during the process.  I have listed a few of them below just to give some idea of how things have been of late.  Guess this is God (note the capital G) telling me that I should be blogging more and installing and playing with new/updated toys a LOT less – which I admit that I have not done much the last couple of weeks. Read more…

WEbook sounded so good on the first glance at things.  A way to put your unpublished work out there in front of other (potential) writers and get some comments, review information, and usually much needed feedback.  When I first read of the information I was so incredibly excited.  Heck, they have even have process by which you could get voted up as being a popular book on the site and even offered a publishing deal.  The details are sure worth checking out though before you actually put your hard written work up on the site, especially details in the Terms of Use Agreement. Read more…

I have been a little bit irked about somethings pointing to the Christmas Holiday already.  It makes me kind of sad that I am getting irked as Christmas is up there in regards to my favorite holidays and certainly I appreciate the thought of giving is wonderful.  What is getting me though is the commercialism of it all.  It used to be when I was kid you did not see Christmas stuff until at least the day after Thanksgiving, at least I remember it that way.  Now a days though, the day after All Hallows Eve the Christmas stuff starts going up in the big (and little) ‘box’ stores.  Christmas advertising, especially why you should by this or that or shop here and there for you loved ones is going into overdrive.  It is enough to make one forget about what it is all about and just be sick. Read more…

Some quick updates since I have been away from the blog for a few days.  Lots of stuff going on in my life right now and I have purposefully put the blog aside for the past few days.  So a few quick things just to get them out there and get a post.  Speaking of posts, that is something to note.  If I don’t post the traffic flow to the website crawls to a sluggish almost stop.  I thought you dear readers hung on every word I had to say and checked in regularly just to make sure I had not said anything.  Guess I am wrong on that one. Read more…

I read a friends blog the other night, sometime after the election.  I was left wondering the same question that he raised in his blog.  His blog was “How Would Jesus Vote?” I will begin by saying that in general I don’t really think that God takes sides in things like this, no more then does when people on the opposite sides of battlefield invoke his name prior to commencing the fight.  On the other hand, I think that perhaps it would, just as the friend suggested, be a good thing if all had prayed for his guidance and hand in the matter without invoking hime to be on one side or the other. Read more…

Very quick and short blog here.  Well, that is the intent as I start this thing out.  It was pointed out to me by a friend this eve that the blogs had not been coming through on facebook as a post and that is where she got the information.  This really kind of disturbed as I use that quick little button link to do that automatically as a post to my profile, which pushes it out based on some random theory that is only understood by those out there who understand advanced statistical methodologies.  As some folks post things that I see right away, others take on average of two to three days to show up, and yet others I see nothing of their posts at all but will yet see them on someone else’s page from comment post. Read more…

I fully realize that the vast majority of folks that read this blog are not so interested in the technological aspects of things, but there are a few that read here that are.  Besides, as I have noted before in here, given the nature of my job the technological information is easy for me to spout off when I am busy with other things, especially as I am usually looking at some of it from some perspective or another in relation to something I am doing for work.  Further, sometimes when the thoughts in my head are in dark grim emotional place it is just better to write about something that is generally going to relate to emotions on a very nominal level at best.  So for those that do not appreciate or care for the technology turn back in either later this eve or on the morrow, I promise to amuse you soon and for this early eve some technology that will help you with your website promotion and traffic generation as well as a couple of just cool tools. Read more…