As we were leaving Calgary, C asked if we could watch Mulan when we got home. I said, “sure” and everyone promptly forgot about it. After we got home, we had dinner and did the usual evening things and then I sent the kids to bed. At around 9:30 PM C came downstairs and [...]
I don’t know when I first heard the phrase “Brilliant Flash of the Obvious”. I know I was using it already in the 1990s, in California and I’m sure I didn’t invent it. It has some currency today — David Allen uses it in one of his talks — but only two google hits before [...]
Woke up to the sound of howling kid. Finn was having some sort of morning nightmare around 7:15. I lay down with him and cuddled him back to sleep, then got up, made coffee and had breakfast and wrote out today’s agenda. (I resist calling it a to-do list because I don’t feel committed to [...]
Turning and turning on its aging platter, The disk cannot answer the controller; Things fall apart; the server cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the blog… Sambal.org used to be served out of my house; that server suffered a disk crash about a month ago, on its root disk, which was not RAIDed (not [...]
David Henderson recapitulates a good point (talking about a hypothetical Social Security privatization plan): So what just happened here? The government imposed a new forced saving scheme. It, in effect, said to workers, “We were already taking X from you. Now we’re going to let you use X the way you want, within limits-…. Oh, [...]
I’ve been reading Iris Chang’s book The Rape of Nanking — which, for all its flaws, appears to be the best English-language general history available. I’m only about halfway through, reading about the International Committee’s Safety Zone and the descriptions of the atrocities; critics usually target the last third of the book, where Chang apparently [...]
We all know that Hamlet said, “There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark”. But did you know that was a reference to an earlier quote?
Still recovering from the server crash, but here’s a useful thing. When I brought up dhcpd on my new server, I set its name server option to my ISP’s name server. I hadn’t had time to set up a local DNS cache, and that was good enough to get web browsing working. Last night I [...]
Tagged Windows… to have no posts in it. The server that I was hosting my blog on just died, and I will (possibly) eventually pull some of the old posts out here. But I have been wanting to move to hosting for a while anyway, so here we are. Bonus technical tip: if your dhcp server [...]
Here’s something I’m unclear about: Suppose you’re unemployed and the government gives you a make-work job — e.g., digging ditches and filling them in again, or breaking windows and replacing them. This is supposed to stimulate aggregate demand. Then when the government ditch-filling program ends, do you get unemployment benefits? It looks like you can [...]