Good morning! It. Is. Snowing! And no, I'm not kidding. I don't think it'll do much, but to see snow on April 16th?!
It was a bit surreal driving the girls into school and then into work this morning. Many of the flowering trees are in bloom, but the ground was laced with the early morning snow. Just yesterday Michelle and I were driving in the sun with the sunroof open. Spring in NH I guess...
On yet another roadmap conference call for the next couple of hours. Meanwhile still living in MS Word.
Wrote my weekly status and am logging out! So ready to enjoy a long drive home with my audio book (Tolstoy FTW!) and stop thinking about verification.
"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand, you have failed." -- St. Augustine [Hat tip: NH'ite Marika Donders].
Bookmarks I made today:
Iceland's disruptive volcano - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Comment: Some great photos of the Iceland volcano from the Boston Globe. Hope no one is traveling the Europe today. Tip: when on the page, use 'j' and 'k' to jump between the photos. It's a nice homage to the Vi editor. ;-p
Excerpt: Today, British civil aviation authorities ordered the country's airspace closed as of noon, due to a cloud of ash drifting from the erupting Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. The volcano has erupted ...
Bill Gates Bans iTunes From Windows
Comment: A cute thought experiment if Microsoft did to Apple what Apple recently did to developers -- demanding that developers only use Apple's tools and Apple's interface libraries.
Excerpt: Apple MUST write a specialised version of iTunes on Windows and use Windows compilers and Windows languages ONLY. Apple MUST lose this RIDICULOUS attitude of writing code once and deploying to multiple operating systems. Just don’t go there. Apple MUST use native windows controllers such as our in ...
Well-capitalized Seattle start-up seeks Unix developers - mi.jobs
Comment: What you see here is an original Usenet job posting from then unknown Jeff Bezos recruiting employees for what would later become... Amazon.com. Dialup the wayback machine to summer 1994.
Excerpt: Well-capitalized start-up seeks extremely talented C/C++/Unix developers to help pioneer commerce on the Internet. You must have experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable) systems, and you should be able to do so in about one-third the time that most competent people thi...
Barney and Barack’s Anti-religion Agenda|Catholic Exchange
Comment: Mentioned this morning on EWTN...
Excerpt: In truth, however, this legislation effectively would codify the very thing it purports to combat: workplace discrimination. ENDA would force – under penalty of law – Christian, Jewish or Muslim business owners to adopt a secular-humanist viewpoint
Congress outlaws all Caller ID spoofing (VoIP too)
Comment: Hm. I wonder if this will affect my SkypeOut account. Currently when I call a number via Skype, I have it configured to show up as my cell phone number. It beats having it show "No Caller ID" like it used to for a while. Now my folks know it's me. Since I'm not trying to "defraud or deceive" perhaps it's still legitimate?
Excerpt: Real numbers only, please. The House and Senate have now passed legislation prohibiting anyone from altering their Caller ID information in order to "defraud or deceive."
Good luck and good weather to all of New Hampshire's Boston Marathoners - NH.com
Comment: My friend Ernesto Burden has published a list of NH marathon runners participating in next week's Boston Marathon.
Excerpt: We here at NH.com wish all the Granite State runners luck and good weather Monday. And since some of us here (!) at NH.com are running the race, we know first-hand how much weather and luck have been on our minds lately!
Zaxxon
Comment: Now available on the Wii: "Travel back to a time when a lovable alien phoned home, gas cost a mere 90 cents a gallon, and everyone was wearing high-tops, leg warmers and had big hair. This was the early 80s, and this was when video gamers nationwide were wowed by the cutting edge graphics and sound effects of the first three-dimensional-like intergalactic arcade shooter: Zaxxon"