The power is back on at the house. Got a call from my neighbor, who says he also grabbed our trash cans, and took some packages in off the porch, which was extremely nice of them. (Apparently there have been some thefts, especially of generators, so they were concerned about our UPS deliveries.) Interestingly enough,… Continue reading

Before coming up to Vancouver to escape the power outage, I was thinking about ways that I might be able to figure out when the power was back on at the house. I thought maybe I could hit my home web server, which should turn back on automatically, but the DSL line that goes to… Continue reading

We decided not to stick around for days and days more with no power, and hightailed it to Vancouver tonight. On the way we drove by the downed power lines near our house, on Woodinville-Duvall Road, and saw a couple of news trucks there. I guess it’s some of the worst, or at least most… Continue reading

As promised, here are a bunch of pictures taken with my camera-phone on Friday morning, after the wind storm Thursday. I’m at work, so I have a bit of bandwidth, and a chance to try out the photo gallery tools on Fastmail.fm — simple but they work well for my purposes. Fastmail seems to be… Continue reading

We had a major wind and rain storm here on Thursday night, that knocked out power all over Wetern Washington and Oregon. Here at home in Woodinville, about 7 miles NE of the Microsoft campus, power went out at about 11PM, after threatening to for at least an hour. Now unfortunately for me, I had… Continue reading

Thanks, Paolo. Dinner was great — Cindy and I really enjoyed ourselves, and it was great to finally meet you! Continue reading

It’s official — Cindy and I just got word yesterday that we’ve closed on a new house in Woodinville, just about 7 miles from work. We’re psyched! It’s a 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath tri-level, with a terriffic back yard, two car garage, open floor-plan, and a big rec-room downstairs that will serve as my home-office.… Continue reading

I managed to get out of there without buying anything except for some parts for my ’66 Jazz Bass, which I happily discovered is probably worth about twice as much as I thought it was, which is in turn about 10 times what I paid for it in 1994. My ’66 Jazz Bass is the… Continue reading

Having recently re-subscribed to Netflix, and rented a couple of documentaries about some favorite bands, while also working on some new music, a quote from Monty Python has repeatedly popped to mind: “No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!” You figure it out. Continue reading

… isn’t the only thing to say, but certainly it’s the first thing I have to say about my new machine. It’s not quite the quad-core 2.5GHz model, but it’s the next best thing at 2 x 2.7GHz. And let me tell you, this puppy is fast. As a comparison with my PowerBook G4 2.66MHz, compile time… Continue reading