Author: Philip

  • Great Short Story – “The Last Question”

    This is one of the best short stories I’ve read – it’s called “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov.

  • Philip With One L

    Why do people take it upon themselves to add an extra L to my name when it only has one? Even when I fill out forms with one L, I often end up seeing resulting documentation with my name mispelled. 95% of the time when I see my name elsewhere it’s only one L so…

  • Crow Invasion

    My front AND back yards are packed with crows right now and a lot of them are flying around randomly. Two other yards across the street are also filled with them. It’s kind of creepy! What the heck is up with these crows gathering like this?

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Have a great Thanksgiving weekend everybody!

  • Busy Week

    What happens when you come back after a week of being sick? Backlog of work you need to catch up on. It’s been a busy week – glad it’s over.

  • Valuable Host Sucks

    I’ve been blogging for a while now but the reason there’s nothing before November 2003 is because my previous web host, Valuable Host, deleted all of my data before I could retrieve it. I probably mentioned them in the past several years ago, but I don’t think I have on this blog so I think…

  • Happy Halloween

    Have a Happy Halloween everyone. You know, this holiday has become an excuse for women to dress in exotic and skimpy outfits. But who am I to complain? Rock on and stay safe!

  • Heroes Getting Boring?

    Is is just me or is Heroes getting a little dull? Maybe it’s the commercials that are bugging me because I hate waiting through commercials. With all the new characters, each episode jumps all over the place and it feels really disjointed. I understand they’re trying to advance the story of each character in parallel…

  • This is an Aside

    I’ve created a new category called Asides which is for random thoughts or other things that I feel like mentioning that’ll usually be very short and not worth an entire blog post about. This is the first aside and an example.

  • ViaTalk is Okay, Not That Good

    So a couple months ago, I switched my phone service to ViaTalk from SunRocket. ViaTalk so far has worked okay but their customer support is exceedingly poor. It’s my understanding that they received a huge influx of customers fleeing SunRocket which overloaded their support staff. But even now, support response times take weeks and months.…