Category: General

Recently, Linda Ronstadt had a bad experience at the Aladdin in Las Vegas. Her comments supporting filmmaker Michael Moore apparently had many guests very upset. While personally I don’t see what’s to be so upset (or surprised) about in her comments, Moore’s letter to Aladdin CEO Michael Timmins is more …

I once went to the National Archives with a coworker, who had to look up a document for her boss. When you arrive at the Archives you have to surrender any containers, and usually unnecessary outerwear like a jacket or coat. When you get in the room to retrieve a …

This morning I sat down to get my e-mail, which includes server logs mailed to me daily from most of my machines around the ‘net. I found that some fugnut had been trying to SSH into one of my servers from the University of Geneva (yes, Switzerland). At least that …

Annoying telemarketer call of the week: My wife and I give to a number of state and federal charitable organizations. Typically the process begins several times a year with a call from a fundraising telemarketer with a request. If the organization is one whose cause we support, has good standing …

Had a great gig with Leah on Saturday at Andy’s in Chestertown, MD. Our audience was fantastic and this is a wonderful venue for quality original music from around the region. I’m still a little exhausted since I started on a sleep deficit Saturday morning and never really caught up …

Woo-hoo! Tonight I set up a Subversion server. It is available for read-only access at svn://svn.frields.org. Eventually I will be migrating this to using Apache and mod_dav_svn, but that will come later. Too much recompiling and installing to do on my trusty RHL 9 server for this late at night. …

On a whim I bought Anthony Minghella’s film of Charles Frazier’s Civil War romantic epic Cold Mountain. After the first viewing I have to admit I was a bit nonplussed. As I thought back over the film, though, I realized my disappointment was due in large part to its steadfast …

It’s interesting to me that for you folks using Microsoft Windows, being able to “talk” to your office computer from home or on the road is a big deal. You buy all sorts of geegaws like “GoToMyPC” or “PCanywhere,” which gives you the ability to use your applications and documents …

Memo to Mr. Moore: Intellectual laziness, even when disguised as art, is just as shallow.

I don’t care how much of a jerk Warren Lieberfarb may be. I’d still like to shake his hand. Because of him, I have a large library of my favorite films in an easily-totable format, which can accompany me on business trips (by plain, train or automobile) or play on …