Remember this posting from September of last year comparing pictures of Kelsi from then to now? Spending some time going through pictures this morning I was amazed by how the boys have grown over the past few years. Here’s another comparison.
This picture was taken about 2 or 3 years ago. Every once in a while, Jonna will take a picture of the three of us together.
This was taken this month in Orlando. Boy, does time fly. Once again, I’m dressed almost exactly the same.
The Diary of an Axeman site, a tribute site to Randy Rhoads, has been redesigned. I have to say, it looks great! The downloads section has been updated with a performance of Crazy Train from Chicago’s Rosemont Horizon from January of 1982.
I found this article on ZDNET talking about how Oracle will be releasing a free version of Oracle 10g to try and head off Open Source databases like MySQL.
With the departure of Howard Stern, WCKG identifies his replacement. Unlike New York, Chicago did not pick David Lee Roth, but some guy named Rover. In other news, Jonathon Brandmeier returns to The Loop (WLUP-FM) starting on October 31 – assuming his studio is installed in time.
Brandmeier first joined the Loop in 1983 and served as morning man there until 1997. Joining Brandmeier in his new role will be Bruce Wolf, broadcasting remotely from Channel 32 studios, where he is still morning news sports anchor.
Welcome back Johnny.
Ford Motor Company reports a third quarter loss and decides that employees are spending too much time in the bathroom. If this were my company, I’d check the lunchroom.
Photo by rbieber
Jonna and Andy carved pumpkins this evening. This is Jonna’s. Yep, the only house on the block with a Linux Tux-O-Lantern!
Kevin Maney posts a review of the Web 2.0 conference held in San Franciso earlier this month.
A guy named Samy documents his experience after hacking MySpace to become more popular. Pretty amusing read. It seems he learned his lesson and will be more honest moving forward.
Nalla sent me a link to TechCrunch » First Screen Shots of Riya, an article about a new photo service with built in photo recognition. This looks pretty cool, aside from the stated 4 hour upload time per gigabyte of data.
Charles Petzold, author of Programming Windows (the Bible of Windows programming when I was coming up) has written an article called Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?. In this very well written (and very LONG) article, Charles goes through the history of Windows programming as he sees it and explains how he feels Visual Studio removes a lot of the “real programming” out of Windows development these days.
I too have fond memories of the “old days”. I remember being the only one in my department that could recite all eleven CreateWindow parameters and being the “Windows API” manual for the department. Nowadays, as Charles points out, Intellisense and code generation have given programmers the ability to “opt out” of actually learning the environment that they work in, as the full API is only a keystroke away. The IDE does way too much for people these days.
Damn all this technology. Give me my BRIEF editor or EMACS any day.
