New car has been acquired. I'm simultaneously elated at Teh Shiny, and worried by extra financial responsibility that comes with it. #

Tonight for the first time there was a man at the Atheist Women's meetup. But we know him and like him, so it wasn't a problem. #

He asked about our experiences with bugs, and a few people came forth with stories of ( Read more... )

Going to the Seaworld tweetup with the child at Waterloo Icehouse. There are supposed to be animals there, right? There better be! #

At the Seaworld tweetup at Waterloo IceHouse, Erika has so far petted a wallaby and a giant lizard. We're waiting for an owl to show up. #

I can hardly believe that tomorrow I'll take my 12-year-old Eclipse to a Honda ( Read more... )

Collected 3 misrouted packages;2 of them by sneaking up to my old apartment and snatching them from the doorstep.As spylike as my life gets. #

No luck with the 4th package: apartment management has a record of it coming in, but can't find it. I'll probably let it go - it was cheap. #

Did some writing, blogging, and laundry. Now recycling, library, ( Read more... )

Crappity crap! I accidentally had my Amazon orders sent to my OLD address, which is for some reason set as my default address. Oh the mess. #

Those orders are from 4 different sellers, and they all have already been shipped. So now I'm trying to contact all those sellers. #

Tried to email UPS to reroute packages to current address; they require a ( Read more... )

I can finally summon some energy and time to blog, not just tweet, about South by Southwest. First of all, I didn't even go to SXSW, only to public events. That alone was enough to keep me very busy ( Read more... )

Evernote is a neat web-based service. It lets you upload all sorts of "notes" into it (text, web pages, PDFs, images, sound files), organize them, tag them and search them. Its most impressive feature is recognizing and indexing text in images, including handwriting. It does so with mixed results. If the text in an image is blurry or written in a ( Read more... )

I remember the first time I saw correlated subqueries in SQL, it seemed kind of magic, until I found out how they worked. When I saw this example in "Teach Yourself SQL in 21 days ( Read more... )

Organizational progress: the most necessary things were put away into temporary places, out of which they will be removed and rearranged, after enough space-doubling and -tripling storage gear is purchased to accomodate things that are still in boxes in bags. The storage gear has not been purchased yet because I am determined not to pay full price ( Read more... )

I heard that the way you spend the first day of a new year will be the way you spend the whole year. So I intended to hit all the right notes on January 1st, doing things I should do more, or at least not less, of: exercising, socializing, programming and writing. The first 3 goals were met, the fourth was sacrificed in order to scratch an acute ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon there came a point where I was feeling too crappy to work. So I came home and just lied on the couch for an hour or so, unable to do anything useful and intimidated by the prospect of still having to go to the old apartment and clean. After about an hour I felt better. My stomach still hurt, but the intense fatigue -- the kind ( Read more... )