September 1, 2011: More People Moving to Dallas

Medifast Status: Day 122, Down ~51.5lbs I am completely exhausted today.  Really dragging.  Even though I am so tired I woke up twenty minutes before my alarm this morning.  I couldn’t make myself get up extra early, though, so I went back to sleep until the alarm went off.  Not normal for me.  Normally if …

August 31, 2011: Liesl’s Song and Dance

Medifast Status: Day 121, Down ~51.5lbs Today was Dominica’s second time out running in her C25K program.  Today went better with no dogs chasing her and she did not accidentally double the distance that she was supposed to have gone.  I need to get out and do some exercise to keep my diet on track.  …

August 30, 2011: Luciana Moves to Solid Food

Medifast Status: Day 120, Down ~51.5lbs I am a little behind on the news but just found out that GameStop, the bigger US video game retailer, has been opening products that they sell as “new” and taking stuff out of the packaging – and doing so officially.  Talk about completely illegal and unethical.  And they …

The Need for Human Redundancy

After having worked in IT for decades you tend to accumulate anecdotes.  This is one of my favourites. I once consulted for a major “new Ivy League” university on a project involving their database server cluster used to backend their core line of business application.  The university’s library completely relied on this system and it …