At home with kids today. Hoping for early, long naps 😉 thinking about ordering a brooks saddle for cannondale.

Onsite with client til 3PM. Then taking kids to Great Adventure. Wondering if I can stream the DNC tonight.

Posted a How To on MySQL GUI Tools over an SSH Tunnel at www.jimwillis.org. Had to walk two people through this in as many days.

The joy of $8 gas – Los Angeles Times Sure, $8 gas is unfair to poor people, but so is all of capitalism. Rich people get more of the globe’s resources. No one has a right to cheap gas any more than he has a right to other things needed…

Tomatoes and Peppers, Via George Lang – Bitten – Dining & Wine – New York Times Blog lecsó could hardly be simpler: It’s an onion, pepper and tomato stew, seasoned with paprika and salt.

The virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another’s. We see only as much as we possess (from Thoreau’s journal on 6/22/1839).

The American Scholar – The Disadvantages of an Elite Education – By William Deresiewicz What happens when busyness and sociability leave no room for solitude? The ability to engage in introspection …is the essential precondition for living an intellectual life, and the essential…

This Old (Healthy) House – Well Researchers found that people who live in older, more walkable neighborhoods are at lower risk for overweight and obesity … because they had been designed for pedestrians. Newer neighborhoods…

taking the lock off the door to www.redbankorbit.com Have a peek around. Let me know if anything looks broken.

trying to selectively export posts from typepad to wordpress based on category criteria. not as easy as I’d hoped.