Back to the Gym

Woot – Back to the Gym for the first time since the MD said I could not go back on July 8th (Yes, I have medical clearance)

Short/light workout, as you might expect after what, 5 months of not working out, but I feel good

Casi - A study in Black and White

 

Casi

Sometimes, I hate weekends

Particularly LONG weekends.

A lot of the work at my job runs 24x7, and when I come in after a long weekend, there are usally all sorts of issues to deal with. Sigh

Wire Management - again

How come, in this day and age of way too many wires, we don't see desks, either for the home, or for the office, with good cable/wire management features? Wire troughs, outlets trips build in, etc?

Yes, I know wireless stuff is becomeing more common now, but that just means you'll have a USB or charger cable up to the desk, along with at least one monitor data cable and power cable, probably a keyboard and mouse cable (or else a cable up for the wireless head)

Cable Management

Did a bit of cable cleanup today - No, the lan cable and the power strip you see on the floor were NOT included

Happy Holloween

Good checkup

Saw my endo yesterday, and a basically good checkup. BP was good, A1C at 5.9%, foot tests good, got my normal flu shot (they did not have the H1N1 available - call in a week or so)

The only bad was I put on 4 lbs

Nice weekend

I did 2 things this weekend I haven't done in over a year

1)Played in a ham radio contest - actually, the first NY State QSO party that has been held in 17 years,

2)Had a wee dram of scotch - as I'm no longer on pain killers, I was able to sit by the fire, and enjoy a single malt while listening to a Windam Hill Record yesterday during the rain

Gahhhh

Forgot my Medic ID necklace AND my USB thumb drive at home today (they stay together).

I swear that some days I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached

Blogrolls

An interesting post on the roll of well blogrolls (no pun intended) over at Ripples in the Ether

Time to rename the Nobel Peace Prize

Time to rename the Peace Prize - the "Seinfeld Prize" It's an award about nothing

Just before impact this morning, LCROSS's last transmission:

Not Kidding

"That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me?"

Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize?

WTF?

This is a joke

Drop me a line...

I know I have 1 or 2 readers out there, but not many

A short bleg - IF you read this blog, post a comment or drop me a line at

kg2vny @ nospam @ gmail.com

Remove the obvious part

Let me know what you like, what you don't - what you'd like to see me write on (hey, the reason I don't write more is I don't know what to say

Charlie

Think I'm coming down with a cold

Oh Joy, think I'm comong down with a cold

Never Forget

Enough said

Squirrel Season

It's the opening day of Squirrel Season in most of New York (well, except for LI, the City and what, Westchester?), and the weather is stunning. Wish I had the day of to nominally go hunting.

Why do I say nominally? I can't tell you the number of times Dad and I would go upstate to go "Squirrel Hunting", grab our lunch, stuff some ammo in out pockets, I'd grab my .22, he'd grab the shotgun, and we'd look at each other and say "Going to load the gun today?" "Nope" and we'd go for a walk in the woods, sit under a tree, and nominally "hunt Squirrels". Of course what we were really doing was enjoying each other's company, and continuing the tradition.




I miss Dad, particularly on days like this.

So Ted (The Swimmer) Kennedy is Dead

I see that Ted Kennedy is dead. May justice for Mary Jo Kopechne be served in the afterlife. It sure wasn't served here

Soccer Starts Tonight

Sigh, another soccer season starts with 90 minutes of practice for my Son tonight. Yea!

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

What can be said about Michael Feathers' Working Effectively with Legacy Code that has not already been said?

This book, along with a few others (for example, Code Complete
and Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
) belong on every programmer's bookshelf.

Michael defines "Legacy Code" as "Code without tests". In this book, he shows you examples of HOW to find the "seams" in your code, so that you can add tests, in order to refactor your code and/or extend your application without breaking your code.

Code refactoring is the process of changing a computer program's internal structure without modifying its external functional behavior or existing functionality.

If you work at ALL with legacy (brownfield) applications, you need to read this book.