January 19, 2009

There were 4 posts published on January 19, 2009 (this is page 1 of 1).

Snow kidding

The current weather forecast calls for about 3″ of snow tomorrow, though depending on where things converge it could be less or much more. Fortunately, by coincidence we stocked up on our white goods yesterday, when we were still oblivious to the coming storm. Should things get messy tomorrow I’m staying put. With the vpn into work I can still be productive.

It was exactly four years ago when we got an inch of snow and all hell broke loose in Raleigh. That inch of snow wreaked more havoc than the 20″ we got in January 2000. Let’s hope this won’t be a repeat.

Community involvement

I conducted another meeting of the East CAC this evening. It was one of those meetings that sent me home feeling great. I get a rush out of being with a group of people passionate about their neighborhood.

It’s no small amount of work supporting my neighbors through the CAC, but it sure is a blast to see how much it’s appreciated.

Yet another update on jazz musician Mark Turner

I had a dream last night that I cut my fingers off. In my dream, reattaching them was as easy as sticking them back on my hand. Not so for jazz musician Mark Turner, who cut his fingers for real back in November.

Here’s an update from Aaron Parks on Mark’s fingers:

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Good News (update on Mark Turner)

Some very encouraging news regarding Mark Turner and his injury. It’s looking like his recuperation is going much faster than anticipated, and he may be back to playing gigs again sometime in the next couple of months. Much better than the six months of recovery time that was initially expected. Let’s all wish him continued healing through the rest of 2008 and into 2009…

Get well, Mark!

New line of books

I’m thinking of starting my own publishing company, specializing in books designed to give people the bare-bones information to keep computer systems running. The books would be a bit more complete than a HOWTO but favoring the day-to-day tasks over installation and configuration.

The target market is the poor schmuck who got stuck running Exchange (for instance) because the mail administrator got downsized. Poor Schmuck needs to know only the things that will keep Exchange up and running until someone with a clue can take over.

I think such a line of books might be successful in this kind of economy. If you’d like to write on a topic that might fit this mold, drop me an email and we’ll talk.