Joanna and I watched the transition from light to dark from our porch this evening, something we should do more often. Thanks to Uncle Stacy we smoked a couple of cigars of unknown origin whilst sipping from our glasses of Oban (thanks to future employment). We’ve allowed a small carnivore (Professor Linus Erwin von Neumann)…
Browsing through Google News stories tonight, I spotted an article called “San Francisco restaurant known for ‘rudest waiter’ closing.”  Much to my surprise, as soon as I clicked on the link, I thought, “We’ve eaten there!” I confirmed my suspicion by checking Google Street View, with which you can take an inside tour.  Here’s a view…
I’m not the best web server admin, mostly because it tends to bore me. My little server spends most of its time idle, and 90% of the requests it gets are from Google’s bot. (I’ve actually just used Google’s web-admin tools to seriously reduce the crawl rate on my server, because its continually re-examining images…