LAN chores: shopping for a new OS, upgrading NAS
We’re probably going to un-retire our 64-bit AMD machine this weekend. I’m digging around trying to figure out how to tuck it unobtrusively into gulker.com world HQ which is starting to sprout gear again as we’re ramping up a couple of projects. We had previously pruned much cruft from World HQ, and don’t want to […]
Coffee in the garden
We had our coffee in the garden this morning, after watering and cleaning up the paths. Dotcom garden has ripening green beans. yellow wax beans, 4 kinds of tomatoes, lemon cucumbers, lettuce, and peppers plus basil, thyme, oregano and mint tucked into the herb beds. It was very pleasant sitting in the cool air, drinking […]
Thinking about Baby Grace
So, one of the services on the gulker.com LAN is a fun family screen saver where just about any amusing incoming image gets dropped: everything from greeting card scans to the latest from our digital cameras et al.
Two long-lasting pix in the rotation have been shots of Linda (L.) and Julie when both were quite […]
Zonbu pricing
When I checked Zonbu pricing, the deal is they want $99 for the machine plus 2 years prepaid at $12.95 a month, for a total of $370.95, well over that “I have to ask the spouse” magic $300 limit. If you choose monthly building, you have to pony up $249 for the machine.
So, I understand […]
Zonbu… very interesting idea
This is Zonbu, a $99 Via-based Mini-PC that runs Linux and that offers a $12.95-a-month subscription that gives the user 25 GB of encrypted, backed-up file storage and an ongoing OS and application patch-and-update service. (See John Markoff’s article about same in the NYT and on CNET).
It’s a nifty idea: but I’d really love […]
The new ‘Gilded Age’
From a NYT front-page story about the ‘New Gilded Age’:
“Only twice before over the last century has 5 percent of the national income gone to families in the upper one-one-hundredth of a percent of the income distribution — currently, the almost 15,000 families with incomes of $9.5 million or more a year”
We live in an […]
18 years ago…
I was going through my old personal photos in their new home in Lightroom and tripped over this scan of my old press passes and other credentials. Oh dear: we may not be aging particularly gracefully. I’ve always thought I looked particularly foreign correspondent-ish in the long-gone San Francisco Newspaper Agency ID at the […]
Bye, bye Audi…
The Audi went away yesterday: family friends Bill and Carla flew up from L.A. to pick the car up. A little sad… but going to a good home. It is after all, just a car… not sure why i get choked up over it…
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu as he appeared during a speech at UCLA in the 1970s. Archbishop Tutut used to spend a few weeks each summer at our church in Pasadena, All Saints where he - of all things - taught Sunday school (his request). Son John was one of his students. Herald Examiner editor Mary Ann […]
Blogging, memory codes, Phoenix, this and that….
We’ve been really busy lately, lots of things on the plate, and it’s been hard to get down the list to blogging. Work has been particularly busy, we’re about to re-do our back yard and patio (we just don’t seem to want to end the pain of re-modeling), I sold a car, etc. etc.
But, things […]