Smalltalk with James Robertson

Yesterday, I was exchanging New Year's Greetings with Arden, and walking in my kitchen when I saw a big piece of siding in the back yard. Thinking "that can't be good", I went and got it, saw it was my house's color, and started looking up at the house. Sure enough:

So, that's a bad thing. I'll have to hire somone to repair that, and see about the state of the siding in general. We seem to get a lot of high winds here; I guess this is what happens.

I spotted this on Rich's Comix Blog, and boy, does it capture my feelings:

In the meantime, 2010! Can you believe it? Still sounds like the distant future to me.

So where's my flying car :)

Watch the hack attempts. The logs show attempts at hacking php (sorry, not in use), and MySQL (sorry, not installed). It's not that I believe Smalltalk is unhackable, but it should be a lot harder just based on how many of the black hats are out there have any Smalltalk knowledge (I'm guessing that's a small number)

With that said, it's the end of 2009, and 2010 is 5 hours away - So Happy New Year to all!

And still no one has a name for the decade. "The Zeros" doesn't quite cut it - and it seems that my favorite, "The Aughts", never caught on. So during the teens, what the heck are we going to call the last decade?

My wife likes (or rather, liked) the show Eastwick, which not only met a cancellation, but did so in a very odd fashion:

So, in a turn of complete idiocy, ABC skipped an episode of Eastwick. A really important one where we were supposed to find out what happened to Jamie and Darryl. They skipped it, apparently, to cut down on the remaining episodes they had to air before winter hiatus is over. I, for one, am extremely upset about this and I hope that someone at ABC reads this and can feel my ire through the computer screen. Imagine me right now, I am glowering at you, execs.

You know, the most fanatical fans have DVRs. Would it hurt ABC (et. al.) to air shows like this at, say, 2 AM, when they aren't showing anything useful anyway, and at least let those fans with DVRs have closure?

I've decided to set up a new blog, outside of Cincom - it makes sense to me to start posting most of the non-Cincom related stuff here, with the Cincom blog concentrating mostly on Smalltalk. My plan for the short term is to link from the established blog over to this one, giving short summaries of what I'm writing about - thus letting my readers know what I'm up to.

Getting a Smalltalk server running here (slicehost) was pretty easy (other than the trouble I had with Apache, but that's my own limited expertise at play there). I got the basics working fast though - domain registration with GoDaddy, discount code from one of the many podcasts I listen to, slicehost account set up, stuff uploaded, and now it all seems to work. We'll see how it goes :)