Category Archives: Tech
Humility and Database Connectivity
Ben Watson, on his blog, Philosophical Geek, recently published an excellent post titled Top 5 Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers. He is not referring here to knowledge of particular technical topics, frameworks or interview minutiae. Instead, these are 5 personality … Continue reading
Stoney
Spent some time yesterday in the cemetery. While facty was off looking for stuff, I took some photos. This is the headstone of George Johnstone Stoney, best known for inventing the term “electron” in 1894. According to Wikipedia, he was … Continue reading
Flickr, RSS and WPBT
Just a quick tip for those who like the RSS. It seems that lots of folks are using flickr to upload pics from the recent WPBT excursion. Most (all?) of those photos appear to be tagged with ‘wpbt’. This is … Continue reading
A Gentle Suggestion
I’ve been catching up on a backlog of poker blog reading… If I had a nickel for every time blogger ate someone’s post, I’d be able to move up in limits. Sheesh. Now, I’m no expert in blogger’s software (I’d … Continue reading
Moblogging
I like taking photos. I’m not trained and i know very little about cameras, but I like capturing moments and motion. I like unusual perspectives and angles. I like moving the camera as I take a picture. Some people like … Continue reading
RSS Feeds
A big time-sucker lately has been Bloglines. I’ve been trying to find a reasonable RSS reader for the last few weeks. I had been using Syndirella ever since downloading the opml file containing poker blogs from Up for Poker. I … Continue reading
The Procrastinator Gets Comments
Hey, I finally finished a comment system for fhwrdh.net. A couple people had mentioned it to me, so I wrote one. It probably needs a little fine tuning, but if you get a chance to try it out, please do. … Continue reading





