Admittingly, I suppose that Star Trek Voyager is not usually referred to when talking about Christian leadership. USS Voyager, commanded by the strong-willed Captain Kathryn Janeway, becomes trapped on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy, and with no other options left to them, embarks on a 70-year journey home. Their journey becomes filled [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
August 30, 2007
11:49
11:49
August 27, 2007
09:10
09:10
Coffee
It’s 09:10 and we’re already out of coffee. This is absurd.
August 25, 2007
20:46
20:46
From an Introvert’s Perspective
I am an introvert. I say this with some kind of trepidation, because I know the world looks at us introverts with strange and sometimes unforgiving eyes. We do not always rise to the social standards held in common. We do not flash our big smiles, show off our success, our fancy cars and pretty [...]
August 20, 2007
10:15
10:15
Chamomile
Chamomile tea is very good. I started drinking chamomile during a slight Chinese period of mine (it wasn’t anything as extensive as my military period). It’s a pity I don’t drink it more. Tea holds the same properties over coffee, as cats do over dogs. It’s more subtle, quiet, distinguished. It doesn’t make a fuss, [...]
August 16, 2007
07:39
07:39
When Jeff Met Heather
Probably one of the more romantic ways to propose. At least if you like cats. Check out the thread on Stuff On My Cat when Jeff proposed to Heather… through a cat. The posting generated an unbelievable amount of comments, with people staying glued to their screens all day to see if Heather said yes [...]
August 13, 2007
15:54
15:54
Visualizing Software Design
I’m starting to use a new method to understand how to write software. It’s something I’ve starting doing just by myself, so I don’t know if it’s an established practice. I think it isn’t. I close my eyes and imagine that I’m looking at the running software. I see the main form as it is [...]
August 11, 2007
16:01
16:01
More Pictures from Skärhamn
Following on the success of the last picture essay from Skärhamn, here are more pictures. When I leave my house and walk down to the harbor – which really just starts a few hundred feet from my house, and stretches for a long, long way all into downtown, this is what I see. This is [...]
August 10, 2007
22:45
22:45
Living Systems
Why aren’t computer systems alive? Why can’t I add fields at will to a database without also changing mapping xml, classes and other stupid definitions… and then having to recompile? Why can’t I add methods to classes while the program is running? Why is data so locked up in proprietary formats? Why is XML the [...]
August 8, 2007
11:11
11:11
What is the Best Time to Have Coffee?
It’s 11:43am and I haven’t had my coffee yet. I’ve just barely made it out of bed – yes, I’m on vacation – and I haven’t quite yet had that crazed urge for coffee. I’m waiting for it before I make coffee, because I sort want to hit that sweet-spot, that moment when you want [...]
August 4, 2007
19:23
19:23
Pipelines and Seagulls
Pipelines are cool. So are seagulls. Except that seagulls wake me up in the morning, pipelines don’t. On the other hand, seagulls can fly, whereas pipelines are anchored in the ground. Maybe they’re anchored in the ground, because otherwise they’d fly away, like seagulls. “Oh, that I had the wings of a seagull”, the mighty [...]
August 2, 2007
10:35
10:35
Disaster Follows Me
Funny how coincidences can stack up in your life. If they really are coincidences. For instance, every trip I have taken to the United States since 2001 has been followed by some kind of disaster. My first trip on this side of the century, in May 2001, was to Florida. It included a journey of [...]