http://www.mullicious.com The unfocused ramblings of a guy in Santa Fe, NM. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:42:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In no specific order. If you're going to have 8 dogs in your house, the more of them that are housebroken the better. Batting .500 really isn't good enough, and in this case, two out of three IS bad. Don't ask.  Software virtualization is only as good as the host application AND the ... http://www.mullicious.com/2008/12/26/highly-specific-andor-personal-generalizations-for-a-new-year/ One of my wife's friends sent us a Christmas card that said something like "May the coming year bring lots of changes." It sounded disturbingly close to a Chinese curse that goes something like, "May your future be filled with change." (I've read that this is actually a mistranslation or ... http://www.mullicious.com/2008/12/22/merry-christmas-enjoy-your-chinese-curse/ It's been a year with a lot of small but important changes. Sometimes the most impressive changes are the ones that are easiest to see - new house, loss of job, new pet, kid - but those sort of take care of themselves. They don't happen all the time. For ... http://www.mullicious.com/2008/12/22/i-feel-like-im-cooking-all-the-time/ I'm excited to be applying for a little writing job at a major content website, it's the kind of change I've been looking for. I've got almost no chance of landing the gig, a monthly retainer project reviewing and writing about digital photography, but just taking the leap of faith ... http://www.mullicious.com/2008/12/22/blogging/ Since I work at home, I wouldn't easily get snow days anyway, but I feel cheated sometimes when people around me are off and I'm in my lair hunched over a keyboard and pushing pixels around. My clients are still in New York City, and it's 60 degrees there right ... http://www.mullicious.com/2008/12/16/snow-day/ To paraphrase George Carlin, it's pretty easy to consider anyone who'd driving much faster than you as crazy, and anyone who's driving slower than you to be a jackass. I've noticed some more granular versions of the rules here in Eldorado, and it's deepend the awareness I already have that ... http://www.mullicious.com/2008/12/08/my-version-of-relative-morality-as-it-applies-to-driving-in-my-neighborhood/ I offer now my own Dave Barry style contribution to Murphy's Law; nothing scatological need be implied by the title. I don't know what cosmic law of attraction is involved, but as a mostly private person, I've found that the best way to abort a lonely fugue right at the onset ... http://www.mullicious.com/2008/12/08/feeling-lonely-visit-the-bathroom/ This isn't about computers, but a computer issue I had today got me thinking. I spent about 6 hours working on a dumb but crippling computer problem; seemed like it should have been minor, but minor or not, it would have stopped me from working come Monday so I needed ... http://www.mullicious.com/2008/12/07/maintaining-a-status-quo/ I'm halfway through quitting music, or playing music live to be more precise. Phase one is saying no to anything new; my current relationship with music - not good - is largely a byproduct of taking chances with strangers that haven't worked out, so I'm taking a step back from ... http://www.mullicious.com/2008/12/02/done-with-music-quit-for-better-not-worseim-halfway-through-quitting-music-or-playing-music-live-to-be-more-precise-phase-one-is-saying-no-to-anything-new-my-current-relationship-with-music/ A friend pointed out a recent article in our local paper on a really interesting new alternative energy for homes and small offices. It's a sculpural-looking turbine covered with solar material - if it's windy, it spins, if it's sunny, it sols. Or whatever Solar things do. If we've got ... http://www.mullicious.com/2008/11/17/bluenergy-solar-turbine/