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I finished watching the first season (volume?) of Jupiter’s Legacy. I was concerned about the quality of the writing by episode 2 and by the end of the season, I decided that this is a fairly bad show. It’s not terrible but in some episodes, I desperately wanted…

I use Open Live Writer to create images for my blog. More specifically, I have some old posts that use the decorative borders on images ad I want to add new images that match that style; using Open Live Writer lets me have that style. I’m starting to…

You can tell a lot about the writers of a TV show from what they write. For instance, if every character sees an event from the same point of view, even though they are a diverse set of people who would, in real life, have different viewpoints, the…

My blog site has been compromised. I have no idea how someone can access the site and replace WordPress blog files with their own malicious crap. But they do it. it’s not even clear what they get from it because my host disabled malicious files as soon as…

I write software for a living (in case it wasn’t obvious). You can read about my job history in other posts and see that I spent 18 years using C++ in the biotech industry before my current app developer job. In those 18 years, I did sometimes write…

This is a continuation of my story started in this earlier post here. At the end of my last post, I wrote about getting a job working for TimeLogic on a broadcast delay system. I Actually interviewed for that job and had to write some software as a…

I think I should write down some of this stuff before I forget it all. Others might find it interesting. If anything, the amount of good luck that has befallen me is impressive. I worked in a toy store when I was 19. When the store was unable…

I sometimes read Wil Wheaton’s blog. For anyone who reads my blog and somehow doesn’t know of Wil Wheaton, he’s an actor who was in the movie Stand By Me and later played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He’s done other acting since then but…