mindlace

So. Today was good as a client signed off on some really fun work that means I can relax about January being my Doom. It is bad in that I have finally sliced my wrists off with the bleeding edge; there’s some interaction between my ldap server, dns resolution, smtp server, and virtual machine environment.

Remind me never to stick essential services in a virtual environment without extensive testing for load-based failure modes.

At any rate, mail will be back up in a few hours, I hope. 

Cognitive daily suggests that parenting behaviours rather than “philosophies” have the most correlation with teen attitudes towards helping:

In short, if you want your kids to value helping others in a variety of ways, this research suggests that you’re likely to be effective when you actively encourage those behaviors through conversation, experiential learning, and other actions

Note: I have not actually received my Kindle yet. Another post will follow around Dec. 7 when I’ve had it for a day.

Seems like everyone wants to piss on the Kindle for not reading pdf. While that is something I would Really Like™ I looked at this thing and thought “I can get another book after I’m finished reading one any time, any where.”

For a serious text junkie like myself, that’s nirvana. Everything else that sucks - prophylactic encryption for scaredy-cat publishers and hyper-minimalist document formats - just pales by comparison.

The other factor is that I commute on the subway these days. When I was younger I was a serial monogamist with books; nowadays I am a dedicated polyamorist with at least three books going at once, one for code, one ‘fluff’ and one spiritual and/or sciency; and dear gods but weighty tomes are, well, weighty.

And the NYTimes and Crooked Little Vein is out on it. Basically, I looked at the page for CLV, and saw that Soon I Will Be Invincible, Halting State, and Spook Country are available for it as well. That’s at least four of the books I’d like to be reading, and without the hassle of remembering which one is in the bag at any given time.

Plus, has no-one heard of converting pdf to html?

The pay for RSS feed thing is one thing I might be cranky about; I sub to hundreds of feeds. I suppose I suddenly have a use for a meta-feed.

you might as well mummify them.

I am in the midst of a radical change in my interpersonal affairs while trying to move from being an individual consultant to working with Charles River Web.

I’ve revamped the look of my site; now you too can push buttons. A special thanks to druidart.com for the great drawing of kali.

Since you probably haven’t had the chance to get there yet, I encourage you to virtually visit the Creation Museum.