Category Archives: Happenings

I attended my cousin's wedding which was great! It was a wonderful ceremony, a couple great partys, lots of good food and it was really great to see family that I don't see nearly enough of. I wouldn't trade my … Continue reading →

I had Verizon FIOS a few years ago when we lived on Roosevelt Island and I loved it. It is considerably faster than DSL or Cablemodem. When I learned our new apartment could get FIOS (for Internet / TV / … Continue reading →

Yesterday was the first I heard about the new movie Moon. It was described as sci-fi, a bit like 2001, which sounded interesting. It was directed and the story written by Duncan Jones, the son of David Bowie. I looked … Continue reading →

The week before the move I went to the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. It was a fun week, I learned new stuff and reinforced other stuff I already knew. The missus did some packing while I was gone. After … Continue reading →

I am a Star Trek fan since, well, forever I guess. My formative years were the seventies and eighties and I remember watching Star Trek the original series (ST:TOS, as re-runs) all through elementary school and junior high. I have … Continue reading →

We spent part of our weekend packing. We aren't moving for over a month, but we are hoping to have most of it done early so the move is less stressful. We are going to hire movers to do the … Continue reading →

The missus and I have iPhones and we love them. Our "family" plan has the minimum number of shared minutes possible which we never reach - our "rollover minutes"  pile grows every month. With our plan we get "unlimited" calls … Continue reading →

We knew we had to decide about our lease renewal at our current apartment by the middle of this week, so we've been calling and visiting apartments in the area that are convenient to appropriate transportation. We had a goal … Continue reading →

Lately we've been having duck on special occasions. We had it this last Thanksgiving and Christmas. We get it from the Grand Central Market. It is a very tasty "marinated duck breast". The missus picked up a couple for our … Continue reading →

I run several websites. About a year ago I setup a backup scheme to make sure my websites were backed up to my local computer once a day. This backup includes the databases and files on the hosting provider's server. … Continue reading →