People often wonder why I am so adamantly opposed to the established journalistic media outlets. Often people will claim that some papers, such as the “illustrious” New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, are exceptions to the continuing trend of soft journalism. But I contend that these two papers may actually be some of …
Monthly Archives: March 2008
March 8, 2008: Die Siedler von Catan Tag
I slept until nine thirty this morning and boy did I ever need it. I was so exhausted yesterday. Today Dominica and I are going to attempt to just relax as much as possible. We did breakfast over at Airlie Cafe and Dominica got introduced to their awesome salads. She didn’t want one when she …
March 7, 2008: Really Long Day
My morning started at four thirty when I was paged out from bed. I had gone to bed early last night after taking several evening pages and was paged out from bed as soon as I went. I had gone to bed early because I am covering the early shift today at six thirty. But …
CPUs, Cores and Threads: How Many Processors Do I Have?
In my job role I am very often called upon to determine how many “processors” a machine has or how many we will need for a specific task. Ten years ago this was a simple process but today even the very concept of the “processor” is fuzzy at best and only a very few people …
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Simple Website Management with PHP Includes
We all know the importance of the careful separation of websites into their three discrete elements – content in the form of XHTML, style in the form of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and behavior in the form of JavaScript. This is the basic foundation of correct, clean and functional web design. Once one has accomplished …
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