Stop now if you don't want to read something overtly political ( Read more... )

Admittedly I've pretty much abandoned my Livejournal in favor of Facebook, but I still seem to prefer to put longer entries on here ( Read more... )

It seems that I am physically unable to fly by myself without some great misfortune involving flights being delayed beyond the point of missing connections (or passports being misplaced ( Read more... )

New photos of progress at the store available at http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/263780319syfbqk .

Not a lot new to report besides that.  Leaving for Kazakhstan in 3 days though... if you don't hear from me after that, check the former soviet gulags...

Peace out!

Work has been ongoing in some parts of the world:


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For those of you who don't watch or didn't catch 207 on WCSH6 Portland (or aren't going to get up at 4:30 AM to watch it on WLBZ2 Bangor), you can see me get interviewed (it's really not that exciting) here:

http://www.wcsh6.com/life/programming/local/207/story.aspx?storyid=107569&catid=50

For roughly $5.00/month, I'm seriously considering getting web hosting and a domain for my business.  It is a tempting proposition, to say the least.

One of the shortest Roy entries evar.

Okay, now this may be a silly topic, but it recently (within the last few months) I was having a discussion with a client of mine how children understand status symbols just as well as adults do ( Read more... )

I decided to give the new (pre-release version of) Windows a go.  I am pleasantly surprised.  There was a range of effort involved to get all the components of the computer working, but ultimately, it all works, and works fairly well.  A couple simple devices actually installed and worked well with my Windows 2000/XP driver discs.  The worst ( Read more... )

I am suddenly regretting the fact that I didn't take DB in college, but I don't think that's my problem.  I understand the concept behind databases very well.  It's the implementation crap that's bugging the bejeezes out of my right now.  So, if any of you have any left over Access knowledge you wouldn't mind imparting, that would be really freakin ( Read more... )