I'm a reasonable guy.

I start with this because I like to think that I'm not an unreasonable person. Do right by me and I'll be satisfied. But make me jump through hoops and I'll be very disappointed.

This is the tale of two completely different customer service experiences.

Experience …

Apparently Packt is hell-bent on having me tell you about Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python. So here you go: http://web.archive.org/web/http://bit.ly/1bD56tX

I'm already full up on my review queue but apparently they still want me to review it even though I have little …

The last chapter of David Allen's "Ready for Anything" is about making each year the "year of better choices". I think that's an admirable goal as it's not only measurable but also one that isn't adversarial like some goals are (IE: I'll lose 100 pounds by the end of January …

Few things are more nerve-wracking than upgrading a perfectly working machine.

And yet here we are. I think I did an upgrade on this machine from 10.04 to 12.04.

Thank you Ubuntu for making the experience mostly painless. :)

I'm starting a new food movement called "voweltarianism". This is the movement that won't eat things that have more consonants than vowels.

So for instance beets are not OK, but a single beet is fine.

Avocado is fine but avocados aren't.

And potatoes are OK but potato chips aren't. Carrots …