Its is quite amazing how you can start your day in the usual way and then have it change dramatically.  I started today “blog surfing” - which is not uncommon for me. I saw a post titled; “Lessons for a Successful Life“. The blogger made a compelling case for spending the next 90 minutes watching a professor […]

Given any number of circumstances, this blog entry has no physical substance. Anything more for less esoteric would be inconsistent with the subject and the inspirations.
So, what does it mean to be the “last” ? If you take things literally - and by that, I mean all that we have been told of ourselves […]

Where I now live, there are two kinds of people. Odds are good, where you live the same can be said. However, here, it is not what I expected. I expected “local” and “outsiders”. This implies there are those who “uphold the local beliefs and values” and those who “wish to impose an alternate […]

This year the fig tree was very productive. I harvested as fast as I could but often was in a race - let them stay on the tree long enough to ripen and get sweet but not so long as to give the ants, birds, insects, etc. too much of a head start. I estimated […]

I really want to use WLW for my blogging client. Unfortunately, the open source VM solution (QEMU) is not cut out for the task. It either ran really slow or it crashed (or both). All of which left me less than happy. However, the solution was sound and only the implementation was flaky.
Fortunately, I […]