The costs of giving our children everything they want
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006This link came up on Digg this morning, and is a perfect example of why I don’t support parents paying for their children’s expenses all the way through college. I’m not against keeping a reserve fund in case your child gets into trouble, but there’s no reason your child can’t work two jobs to pay […]
Minnesota Voter Turnout
Sunday, November 5th, 2006Another reason to be proud to be a Minnesotan: We’re #1 in voter turnout in the country at 79.1% (2002). It gives a bit of hope when the national turnout of 48% makes us 130th in the world.
Where did you go?
Sunday, November 5th, 2006Loyal readers,
Rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated. I’m pleased to announce that we have not been around because we are in the process of buying a house and moving back to the city. Buying a house is a long process… most of which was completed in the last 6 weeks. If all goes well, […]
pysvn - Turning source control into programming
Friday, September 1st, 2006OK. So I spent the day today working with the coolest python module: pysvn. The SVN command line is already great for doing every day tasks like checking out and committing from the console (cygwin for us windows geeks), but sometimes you need more. Well that more is pysvn.
Python itself is a glorious language. I’m […]
Touring Gettysburg
Saturday, August 12th, 2006Poor Bethany…little did she know she married an early bird. I’m not always an early bird, just when I’m on vacation. She’s the opposite. She gets up before me on normal days and sleeps in on vacation. So here I am, awake and writing….
Gettysburg was very humbling. It was very eerie being on the battlefield […]