Working from Home Today

That’s ice not snow. I hate freezing rain.

Well Said

Andrew Sullivan
It seems to me that dignity and training and expertise and humaneness are the values of our society at its best. All of them are self-evidently superior to the values of vainglory, amateurism, impulsiveness and cruelty that bedevil our enemies. If these are the grounds on which we fight this war – and they [...]

Welcome to the Federal Government

The Washington Post reported today that new White House staff was quite disappointed by the quality of the IT equipment and the restrictive rules on the use of IT. As a federal employee all I can say is welcome to the federal government. The poor quality of the tools provided to me is my number [...]

Now Running Wireless N

I installed a new wireless N router. It is dual band, and this is being transmitted from my MacBook Pro over the 5.0 GHz band using WPA2-PSK.  Now I have to see if I can get the older computers in the house running on G over the 2.4 Ghz band.
UPDATE: I had to update the [...]

The Christmas Beard

I last shaved on Christmas Eve, so I would look respectable at church. I tend to let me beard grow over the holidays, and I usually keep for a few days after I go back to work. I thought I would get a photo this year before I shaved.

Blogging the "Origin of the Species"

I read on Pharyngula about an evolutionary biologist who was planning to read the Origin of the Species for the first time. He had managed to get a Ph.D. without doing so.  This did not surprise me.
I am a physicist, but I have never read Newton’s Principia. Of course the fact that it is written [...]