October 25, 2006: Oracle’s Unfixable Linux

Another month almost over. It is amazing how long months take to pass when you are a child and how quickly they fly past when you are an adult. I wonder if this is a product of our age or if it is simply an indication as to how boring childhood is and how much …

October 13, 2006: The Friday the 13th Snowstorm

Today is one of those days when it is a joyous thing to have moved away from Upstate New York: Dad called me on my way into the office this morning to let me know that he, like almost a quarter of a million other western New Yorkers, was without power and might not get …