May 12, 2010

Watch this space...

I will soon be launching an entirely new business dedicated to personal and executive coaching. More to come!

August 22, 2007

Unfortunate truncation

My wife and I borrow a lot of books from the library. Up to a dozen a week. So we want to avoid fines. Fortunately, our library account is online and readily hacked through Perl's WWW::Mechanize module, so we both have cron jobs that inform us when any book is imminently due.

It seems that the library catalog truncates its book titles... sometimes in unfortunate places. Grace just received a message that said "Fast & flexible ways to personalize your ho is due on 08-25-07"

Oops.

February 03, 2007

Where have the 24-hour news channels gone?

No reply yet to the letter below I sent on December 27.

Jonathan Klein
President, CNN/US
1 CNN Center
Atlanta, GA 30303

Dear Sir,

I’ve been watching CNN for many years, but not lately. I want you to return to your former function of providing news. I used to be a huge devotee of Headline News, but now what that channel carries is definitely not headlines and arguably not news. Between 5pm and 10pm Pacific on Wednesday December 27, for instance, a typical night, Nancy Grace and Glenn Beck were repeated twice and Showbiz Tonight once. Meanwhile CNN had Larry King repeated twice, two Anderson Cooper shows, and Paula Zahn.

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November 14, 2006

Book Review: "Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook"

I have reviewed "Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook"
by Ian Langworth and chromatic, at
http://www.psdt.com/publications/psdt_articles/Perl%20Testing.html.

October 24, 2006

The Heinlein Centennial

I am on the executive committee of the Heinlein Centennial (http://www.heinleincentennial.com/). We're getting ready for a great event; go read about it.

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October 23, 2006

The blogging continues...

Finally got a decent blog system up here: SixApart's MovableType.

May 11, 2006

Pro Perl

I have (finally!) reviewed "Pro Perl", at http://www.psdt.com/publications/psdt_articles/ProPerl.html .