Blog Archives

With a sigh and a tear…

The most awesome person in the world disappeared from my life this week, in all probability for good. It may be claiming a bit much to say that she was ever really in my life; while she was certainly in … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on 2016-08-12 by | Tagged ,

Protest-vote idiocy

I stumbled across some whiners on Twitter today who hate their country so muchhate Hillary Clinton so much that they would rather have their vote not count at all, or worse, throw the election to Donald Trump, rather than vote … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on 2016-08-01 by | Tagged

An update on the HTTPS client certificate issue

Attention conservation notice: If you’re here for the food, you can skip this post — maybe another recipe post coming towards the end of the month. I wrote a while back about moves in the browser world to deprecate client … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on 2016-05-02 by | Tagged , , ,

Winter baking schedule

For the past several months, I’ve been posing irregular updates on what I plan to bake for the coming months. This started with my “summer baking project”, in which I polled co-workers on which recipes they were most interested in … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on 2016-01-01 by | Tagged

I still don’t “get” runners

For much of this year, from late April into early October, it was a real disappointment for me if I did not get out and ride at least ten miles every single day. I would rail against the weather when … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on 2015-12-12 by | Tagged , , , , ,

Administrivia: Baking schedule update for the rest of the year

I had originally planned to do a pound cake this weekend, but in view of the very large quantity of “free” food expected at the office over the next week, I decided that it would not be the best time. … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on 2015-12-12 by | Tagged

Started posting some cycling stuff

I had hoped to put up a blog category of cycling-related stuff, but unfortunately WordPress.com does not allow the <iframe> elements that I need to display my Garmin Connect activities, so I’ve had to do it old-school on my personal … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on 2015-11-01 by | Tagged

Summer baking and autumn baking

Back in August, I posted “Coming Attractions (redux)“, a status update for my summer baking project. Summer is now over, and we’re well into autumn by any definition, so it’s time to review what I actually did (it wasn’t exactly … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on 2015-10-04 by | Tagged

Brief blogging outage

I’m going on a short trip starting this weekend. The recipe I was planning to bake would have been a repeat anyway, so I was not going to do a post. I have another post in the works, not food-related, … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on 2015-09-18 by | Tagged

From the “Pointless SQL Queries” file…

Somehow, the question came up on alt.usage.english of the distribution of author surnames (in people’s personal libraries) over the letters of the alphabet. Since I have a library database, I came up with the followng crazy query to answer this … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on 2015-08-05 by | Tagged