Just a quick update about what's going on over here. I'm on day three of my five-day radiation treatment. It's been pretty interesting. The machine just rotates around me and delivers radiation levels as high as 45 grays (JoDee did the conversion into Sieverts and the response from her was …

Wanted to drop a quick status update for how things are going over here:

• Since I'm likely to be out of commission after my surgery on the first week of November tings are (understandably) compressed at work. Doing my best to keep focus and not try to do multiple things …

This is a continuation of my series of magical moments in computing. I started in the previous post to reminisce about my magical moments in computing. As I mentioned in that post I was bound to miss a few things here and there. So here's some additional bits from that …

My friend Eric and I had a discussion about our magical moments in computing. He got the idea from Harry Stewart, the author of the Atari 8-bit PILOT language. Part of this is to recognize the joy that we still find in these magical machines we dedicate our lives to …

So it looks like what I'd previously thought was a plan is not a plan at all. Sigh. I'd thought I had about a month before surgery but that's not the case. It looks like my surgery is at the beginning of November, not the middle of December as I …