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I was pleasantly surprised tonight to discover that the Harmony folks have a pretty decent pre-set profile for Apple TV, so instead of an evening full of tedious Googling and button-learning, I had everything working in a few brief minutes, and I’m back to one-remote bliss–it even manages to put the Apple TV to sleep […]

I’m really excited by the amount of progress I’ve made over the last couple of weekends, hacking away at what for now is known as Shindig, a group management blog/calendar app written against TurboGears. Its primary purpose is to be something easier and faster for me to maintain than ClePy’s current Plone site. […]

I’ve had 3 swimming classes now. And I feel like I am better able to do the basic forward crawl including keeping my head in the water and breathing. Since the breast stroke helps my back the most they have been spending a few minutes each lesson with me helping to improve and […]

I’m sort of stuck on AT&T; for internet access (after they clobbered my nice Speakeasy hookup), which means I get the wonderful benefit of “AT&T; Yahoo” services. Mainly this means that I get extra “AT&T; Yahoo” banners slapped on any of Yahoo’s services that I happen to be a member of. I […]

Dang, it’s suddenly turning out to be a great week! In brief:

After a couple miserable days of near-100-degree temperatures, the weather has cooled off and is now downright awesome.
Got my monitor back from Apple (no thanks to DHL, who apparently don’t even believe in leaving slips at the door when they ignore the “no […]

Got my scores on the last round of papers I turned in.
Got Distinction on the social drinking paper and Merit on the creating a vineyard paper. I had a feeling I needed a bit higher word count on the vineyard paper to get distinction.
That’s 3 papers done, and really need to get my […]

This Little Piggy Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
After a long day of fighting with Safari issues and worrying about shipping my monitor off for repair, I was rewarded with a lovely dinner with my wife, a surprise early result from the frame shop, a little bit of work in […]

It’s funny when you look back at your recent posts. Once I finished my exam, I was pushing out a number of posts a day, but once I got started on my side project I barely post, and here’s the reason why.
One of my major goals for this year was to beef up my […]

I went swimming for the first time today. It felt great getting in the pool, but it TOTALLY SUCKS getting out of the pool. Gravity is a bitch.
Amusing additional note, it’s very hard to swim under the water pregnant. You keep wanting to float up.

Mood:wet

Tonight something new happened. Tonight, I had to define a word for Mike. And, it was a non-wine related word!
The word was jamcracker. I learned the meaning of this word about 6 years ago back when I was in the venture capital world. And not because of my extensive logging knowledge.
A […]