Station in the Metro

  • The Iconfactory

    I am contacting the fine folks at The Iconfactory about using some of their icons for the blog, to denote segments of the site, such as the forthcoming “What I’m reading/listening to/watching Now” sections. The “Smoothicon” series designed by Corey Marion is gorgeous, even at small sizes, like how it would be used on the site. I’m crossing my fingers that I’ll get a positive response.

  • Yo

    This is the first post on my new self-hosted blog. Many happy returns!

  • False Sense of Security

    This morning, when I came in to work at NIH (the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, MD), everyone was on alert. Well, really, we’ve been on alert since a year ago. Right after the terrorist attacks, NIH went on super-high-ultra-alert, and was performing car and bag searches on everyone, every day. I had to […]

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  • Later that same day…

    In addition to the den cleaning thing, I’m working on moving my sites to my own server at home. SITM is in the pipeline to move soon, so if it goes offline for a few days, I thought you, my two remaining viewers, might like to know that it’s not cause for panic.

    I also […]

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  • Update

    Haven’t done much in a while, because— well— I’ve been trying to clean out my den. It’s a bigger chore than you might think. Just ask my friend AAl— he’ll tell you I’ve moved the same crap around with me through six moves in the last ten years, and it’s still not organized.

  • replayTV

    Earlier this evening, I went out to get a ReplayTV and bring it home. Silly me.

    If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a lot like a TiVo. Records TV onto a hard drive for later viewing, lets you pause live TV, things like that. In short, very cool stuff. The electronics chain Tweeter is […]

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  • Scary Coworkers

    Today the office know-it-all/nag/dolt/snitch (yes, this is all one person) was asking me about a monitor which ended up in her work area. It happened to “belong” to me, and I had put it down in that room as temporary storage long before it had become her space. Once she found out it was mine, […]

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