One of the instructors at the Stick Seminar — and I won’t say who because I feel that the instructor’s words were passed to me in something approaching confidence — told me that there are too many Stick owners and not enough Stick players. I vow to always strive to …
For the rest of this week, I am at Red Hat in Tysons Corner for a RH 401 class in enterprise deployment and system management. I’m back with the same instructor from last month. She just moved here from Surrey (UK) but she’s actually Norwegian, originally. I am going to …
I had a fantastic time at the Stick Seminar this weekend. Our teachers included luminaries like Virginia’s own Greg Howard, Bob Culbertson from San Jose, California, Jim Reilly from Canada, and Virginia Splendore from Rome (yes, Italy). I got to see my good friend Chris for the first time in …
Thanks to memtest86, I was able to pin down some of the flaky behavior I’ve been seeing in both Linux and Windows recently. Turns out one of my DIMMs was bad, so I’ll be replacing it pronto through Newegg, which I highly recommend for parts and accessories. Heck, you could …
A gorgeous day, and good to be off work! I am picking up my Stick today for the first time in… um… a long time. 🙁 I’m hoping that I haven’t lost so many of my already meager skills that I get laughed out of the seminar. Aw, the heck …
Last night I missed the vice-presidential debate, thanks to Bill Gates and his cadre of ace (ass?) programmers at Micro$oft. I was trying to simply reinstall my Windows operating system, with which I still have to share disk space on my Fedora Core system. The Windows installer popped up a …
Last night’s show at the Velvet Lounge in D.C. was great. We had about as good a crowd as one could possibly expect on a Sunday night at 11. A personal highlight was seeing the magnificent performance of one Edie Carey. Engaging personality, lovely voice, talented musician, and a uniquely …
I have been superbusy lately between catching up with work and a bunch of out-of-town gigs. Last night (Saturday) we did a set at the Dewey Beach (DE) MusicFest, which I thought was very cool and tight. We had to go on without Tom because he was previously committed — …
I just got back this morning about 4:00 a.m. with the family, from my dad’s wedding in Boothbay, Maine. We had a fantastic time and as best man, I even managed to pull off a fairly decent toast to the happy couple. We just love my dad’s new wife, and …
We had a great show on Saturday night at Andy’s in Maryland, despite our beloved drummer Rich being stricken with back problems that left him in agony and unable to travel with us. It was very interesting when a couple of patrons, annoyed by the loud conversation at an adjacent …