A Sunday Thought
Kinda’ says it all doesn’t it? Digg this!

Open Source Software. I just don’t get it.
I just don’t get it. When it comes to home computers and the software that runs on them I’m not a developer I’m a user. A technically advanced user, yes but a user nonetheless. Same goes for software that runs in the so-called “Cloud”. It takes a certain mindset, a certain way of thinking to sit in front of a monitor and write line after line after line of code that I simply don’t have. Never could wrap my head around the concept of programming and I’m hardly alone in this respect. Now this doesn’t mean I can’t track down a buggy piece of open source software to a certain line or lines of troublesome code–

The Big The Fat The Ugly
I’ll bet you were expecting to see a photo of large, sunburned, overweight people in skimpy bathing suits lazing sound the beach on too small towels stuffing their faces with oversize sandwiches and guzzling cheap beer and soda. Sorry to disappoint you. I just suddenly had the sudden urge, for no particular reason, to title a post; The Big The Fat The Ugly. I really can’t explain it other than the urge was not one I could ignore. But that’s what personal blogs are all about, right? Being able to post miscellaneous nonsense for no reason at all? Or is that Twitter?

Worst Case Scenario for 2012?
  This?     Or this?  

Four Year Reflection…Really
Funny how time flies isn’t it? One day it’s yesterday and all of a sudden it’s four years later, this past year being the quickest of all. It really hit me when I finished renewing this site for the fourth time. Okay, so the archives only go back as far as February of 2006 but that doesn’t count the posts I lost during my transitions between the old Blogger blog and doing-it-myself with a few month stop at Wordpress.com to catch my breath—moving the blog was tough in those days. Then, four years ago apparently, I ended up here and have been posting ever since. Never did straight