August 02, 2011
WiFi Day - 8.02.11
Good morning! Michelle is off teaching her 20/20/20 class. I had a quiet drive into Boxborough, offering up the Joyful Mysteries for the first half and catching up with my dad the second half. Claire is out with some of the cross country team doing a five mile run. Michael is at school with his reading club.
<nerd>Happy WiFi Day! 8.02.11 </nerd>
Via jjauthor: Thomas Sowell: The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying a price!
Cute! At our division quarterly meeting the head welcomes our new Atheros staff and mentions that it's also 8.02.11 day. (Atheros makes WiFi)
Left work around 5:30. It was pouring heavy rain between Boxborough and the state line. I listened to a little bit of This Week in Google #105 where the hosts discussed Google's requirement that people use their real birth names when creating Google profiles.
At an Opus Dei Evening of Recollection. Wish I could have gone last month.
Went straight to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church for tonight's Opus Dei Evening of Recollection. Tonight's talks: the ordered use of time, appreciation of the gift of the Eucharist, and the proper role of Marriage.
While I was out today, Snickers got his annual vet exam. Evidently it made him a bit nervous. When he got home he even threw up a bit. Poor guy!
Sex selection in the United States: The ethical dilemmas for doctors - By Sunita Puri - Slate Magazine. What a quandry this must put some liberals in. They want to be pro-choice, but what if the abortion is simply because the baby is a girl? Ironically sex selection abortion is illegal in India and China, but legal here because we dare not touch the sanctity of abortion for any reason whatsoever.
My ideal work-from-home space. Who says tree houses are just for kids?!
Apple has removed MySQL from latest version of Mac OS X server replacing it with PostgreSQL. Handwriting on the wall. Thank you Oracle. I wonder if soon we'll see software like WordPress move away from MySQL.
From my friend Lisa -- Past campaign slogan: "A chicken in every pot!" Present: "A condom in every pocket!" (referring to recent laws requiring birth control coverage in health care insurance)