August, 2005 Archive

Heat

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

It’s hot down here. I mean really, really… hot.
Consider this: Little Rock, Arkansas shares the same latitude as Tikrit, Iraq.
It has broken 100 degrees every day since we arrived, and the humidity is in the 70%-90% range—even at night. The average temperature for the month of August is 90 degrees (and this includes those overnight [...]

Information Anxiety (a.k.a. Pre-Junebug Ramble)

Friday, August 19th, 2005

Working at home and being connected (online) all the time is getting to me. On the train downtown I was visibly anxious about not being able to Google something (anything). My head was sort of spinning. (So much to do! So much to learn!) I started reading a magazine but my attention kept drifting. . [...]

Too much time on my hands

Monday, August 15th, 2005

I can always find something to do other than the thing that I’m supposed to be doing. Some little project (many little projects) reasonable enough in scope to stand a chance of getting completed and just engaging enough to make me feel like they’re worthwhile. I have surrounded myself with little projects lately. I am [...]

Changes in Peebo Land

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

So, if you’ve stumbled on Peebo in the last day or so, you’ll notice: (a) there is actually a site here now; and (b) it looks a lot different.
It’s been a completely bitch to get everything setup here on the west coast. I migrated from my own server to a new host; I had configuration [...]