Tom’s occasional rambling thoughts

Went in to the Department of Licensing (DOL) to renew the tabs on the car today which went fairly smoothly.  One very interesting thing is that Washington citizens are now required to show a valid drivers license in order to renew their car tabs. Not sure what problem they are trying to solve here, if…

I had to pick up a new dvd writer since the Sony I had picked up a couple years ago stopped ejecting the disks and would scratch them. Disappointing. So I went up to Frys and found a Pioneer drive that came with Nero and got it.  My first attempt to install the Nero software…

The first page is a couple quotes about death and how even if friends die they are still with us. An ominous beginning, on to the first chapter, I promise not put up any spoilers here since I really don’t like to read them myself. Took a few days, I was doing other things around…

So the top story today in the Seattle Times was state employee pay. This article actually deserves a much longer reply than I will put up here tonight but I needed to get something started at least. I found it interesting that this was a lead story for the first section, it reads very much…

Found this fun little game today when reading this entry at coding horror. This really a fun addictive little game. Desktop Tower Defense

Kathleen saw this on Paul’s site, thought I would give it a shot too and the result is: Which Princess Bride Character are You? this quiz was made by mysti

So, a friend of mine posed the question recently, now that Blair is retiring who will Bush appoint to replace him?  Which caused me to wonder if whoever it is would get Congress’ approval and then it hit me, Condi!  What the perfect stepping stone for her.  Now if only Parliament does not mind.

I really need to make more time to put things in here, I have not been ignoring this for any good reason, either get too busy or just involved in something (civilization III has been my recent distraction). This was productive evening, along with finally getting something written up here I managed to fix the…

Big thanks to Ryan Carter who wrote up a nice method for moving ones wordpress weblog. My first was to upload the tables and copy all the data into the wp_ tables but that did not work.  My problem was that on my previous host I had the tables prefixed as tom_ and the default…

Heard this quote on the Writers Almanac today: There have never in history been so many opportunities to so many things that aren’t worth doing. William Gaddis And you know I don’t think he was talking about the world wide web either, I suppose he would have given up and gone off to live as…

Damn, I have been gone from here for a long time, perhaps I will be more  timely in putting things up here in the future.  Not like I don’t have ideas, it is mostly a matter of remembering them long enough to put them up.  Here is one interesting in thing I found on a…

Joel writes some very articles, here is recent post of Joel’s that a friend of mine from college put on his website. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/08.html Of the three people above on the org chart two were ex-military and are firm believers in the command and control method.

I saw this article on a friends website earlier this evening. Seeing as how I just changed positions last Tuesday (Aug 1) this seemed like an interesting question, how many (if any) of these reasons applied for my changing jobs.  Turns at least half of these apply, that would be: 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 with maybe a…

I was just watching the debate on C-Span while getting ready to head out this morning and heard some interesting points.  The first is that if gay marriage is so bad and threat marriage between a man and a woman then there should be some additional items added to this amendment. Along with banning same…

This is probably old news to some, I had heard rumors before but never saw so many of the allegations in one place. So, I watched this video called 911 Cover Up recently and found it quite interesting. It is difficult to definitively prove what he says one or the other but there are some…