Now that the scare is over:

Amanda woke up Tuesday morning around 4 with chest pains, left arm hurting, etc. Around 5 we decided to see try the emergency room. I left around 7:30 assuming she’d be released and home by mid-day.

I got home to find out that she was being transfered to Adventist in Tacoma Park after an overnight for a catheter procedure whereby a video camera looks at her heart from the inside to make sure everything is OK. Blood tests were showing elevated levels of cardio-enzymes; I’m told this indicates that the heart is under stress… or something.

Lots of stress and unknowns later, she emerged from the procedure A-OK and is at my place, bed-ridden for the next 4 or 5 days. Do stop by if you have the time.

Those of you left in the dark – no hard feelings, we didn’t want to scare anyone but in hindsight probably would have spread the word a bit more.

Most impressive.

I would have liked to see more on the Father Callahan given his roll the series. The novel was the story of an addict priest with a faith problem, the movie is a vampire thriller. Both are good.

The cinematic treatment I recall was heavily focused on the boy and the priest – this longer format allows for an equal look at all of the major players. I’m two and a half hours into it right now and it’s not half over. If you have the time, check it out.

UPDATE: Just finnished it. 4 hours of my Sunday and it was ruined in the last 10 minutes. Weak ending, Very weak. – While I’m complaining, can we have a thriller movie that doesn’t end with Paint it Black or Sympathy for the Devil?

Winner of the Industrial Design awards and something we could have used when camping recently:

the UnBathroom.

Why would anyone want a translucent bag?

I’m moving to DC. Assuming the credit check goes through…

I timed a morning commute yesterday from the new digs and made it in 30 minutes – down from the current 70 and my clients are even closer than that.

“Here, let me turn the light on for you!” isn’t helpful. I’m fully aware of the invention and mastered operation of the switches years ago. I’m getting much better guessing where the wallplate is and knew where that one was.

Now I have to thank you for being annoying.

Thanks.

This has been making the rounds and usually I’d not post what is available elsewhere but this is my only chance to emphasize that Cory Doctorow’s talk at Microsoft regarding DRM is a really good read. Check it out.

Seriously.

I’m pretty impressed that Aaron held out on showing this for nearly a year. Hilarity.

Shit.

June 8 is today.

Get thee to a bookstore!

This jogs my memory to relate somewhat stale SK news - he was the recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the U.S. National Book Foundation last fall:

During the ceremony, attended by 900 guests, King spoke warmly of his wife Tabitha. “When I gave up on Carrie, it was Tabby who rescued the first few pages of single-spaced manuscript from the wastebasket,” he said.

King said he has no patience “for those who make a point of pride in saying they have never read anything by John Grisham, Tom Clancy, Mary Higgins Clark or any other popular writer.”

“What do you think?” King asked. "You get social academic brownie points for deliberately staying out of touch with your own culture?

Check it out.

Ah to be able to rant so well…

mjr argues security concepts on the firewall-wizards mailing list.

Join me in challenging the preconceptions of an industry that has grown up around “if you can’t do something RIGHT do something STUPID, HARDER!”

That’s what we’re talking about, here, with all the focus on patch management:

• Rather than run a good O/S: run a bad one and MANAGE it BETTER
• Rather than understand your connectivity: leave it OPEN and FIDDLE WITH your endpoints CONSTANTLY
• Rather than run good code: run bad code and UPGRADE IT DAILY

Yes, the vendors (antivirus / security / firewall / software / hardware) seem to have no problem with it eh?

This is the shit.

Seriously.