So, what's been going on the past month? Lots of the same uninteresting stuff, like trying to organize stuff around the house and get things unpacked. The PHP/MySQL project for work for which I've been up to my eyeballs finally seems to be clearing, so I may actually have time to start doing things like updating and Support again. It's been really ( Read more... )

Shakespeare may have written, "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them", but he didn't say anything about having greatness occurring only to people they know. I refer to two incidents in the past week where things happened to other people in my life ( Read more... )

I know, that's the worst, most clichéd headline I could come up with, but that's why I'm not in the newspaper business.

Baltimore Opera Company to close
Three months after seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and canceling the remainder of the 2008-2009 season, the board of trustees of the Baltimore Opera Company voted yesterday to pursue ( Read more... )

Obama to speak Saturday at Baltimore's War Memorial PlazaSo, President-Elect Obama is going to be speaking about half a mile from where I live. I knew in advance because the city police have put up "no parking" signs for Saturday all up and down my street (which is the main route from the train station to the speech venue). Am I an idiot for not ( Read more... )

Mayor wants to drop 'Ravens' from his name
Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, at least for this week, wants to be known as Luke Steelerstahl ( Read more... )

Baltimore Opera seeks Chapter 11 Protection

After 58 years and more than 200 productions, the Baltimore Opera Company will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy-law protection today amid dwindling ticket sales and contributions ( Read more... )

..in case you didn't see news or lj_maintenance:
No LiveJournal from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM EST (8-12 PST) because of the server move. No posts, no friends lists, no messages, nothing. Get back to work!

Yes, my friends, it is truly a(n) historic day; One which I wasn't sure I would see in my lifetime. Now that it's here, I have to keep pinching myself to make sure I'm not dreaming.

Google Maps' Street View has finally come to Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

EDIT: Although, judging from the appearance of the building next to mine, the pictures are ( Read more... )

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Mozilla has finally announced the launch date for Firefox version 3: Tuesday, June 17. Help them set a world record for most number of downloads in a 24-hour period. Or, plan a download party.


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