August 8, 2009: The Living Room is Wired

I accidentally slept in way too late this morning.  There is a ton of work to be done and I had only meant to sleep for a little while.  When I woke up even Oreo had decided that it was time to have gotten up and have left the bedroom to go down to the …

Bones Season 3 Episode 7 Massive Amiga Blunder

So today Dominica was watching Bones, season 3 episode 7.  She came down to tell me that they had put an Amiga from 1987 into the show and that I had to take a look.  Of course, no one in Hollywood bothers to check anything at all or to even state the obvious correctly. They …

January 10, 2009: Oreo Is Much Improved

I went to bed around seven last night and was asleep before seven thirty.  Oreo came in and slept with me for a little while at the foot of the bed. Dominica woke me up at ten because Oreo was laying in the middle of the upstairs hallway and was not willing to move.  He …

April 6, 2008: Finishing That 70s Show

Dominica was up long before me today and hard at work on her backlog of GPS and the New Geography homework. It isn’t very often that she is up significantly before I am and especially not on the weekends. I have a bit of a migraine today so I am spending the morning relaxing and …

Utilities Are Localized Monopolies

As a technology worker I suppose that I am exposed to the issues of utilities and localized monopolies much more often than the average person is. I am always surprised when I come across someone who is not aware that their utilities and infrastructure services are, by their very definition, monopolies within their local area. …