On April 28, I saw [Gaelic Storm](http://gaelicstorm.musiccitynetworks.com/) at the [Aladdin Theater](http://www.aladdin-theater.com/). They are one of my favorite bands, a high energy Irish band. They also turned out to be an awesome live band.
A month ago I discovered a nice spot that I didn’t know existed in Vancouver. [Vancouver’s Waterfront Park](http://www.ci.vancouver.wa.us/parks-recreation/parks_trails/parks/west_vancouver/waterfront.htm) starts at the east end of the Interstate Bridge. It connects to a path that goes along the Columbia River passing through [Marine Park](http://www.ci.vancouver.wa.us/parks-recreation/parks_trails/parks/central_vancouver/marine.htm) and Tidewater Cove. The road, Columbia Way, and the sidewalk also go under […]
I will giving a presentation on [Slony](http://slony.info) tomorrow 4/17 at 7 pm for the [Portland PostgreSQL Users Group](http://pugs.postgresql.org/pdx/) at [FreeGeek](http://www.freegeek.org/).
At work, they have been buying all the programmers new monitors. Everybody now has at least one 20″ LCD. Some people have two. The rest of us could have two monitors, one maybe smaller, if there wasn’t a shortage of dual-head video cards. I decided to hook up the second smaller monitor up to my […]
I saw [Children of Men](http://www.childrenofmen.net/) today. It has been out for a while but all the recently released movies are junk. It lived up to its good reviews. It was bleak but beautifully filmed. It did a good job of presenting the despair of a world without children. Some of the scenes of inhumanity to […]
It has been cold in Portland for the last week or so. Last Thursday, there was a dusting of snow which caused problems with ice farther east. Yesterday was supposed to be the last day of cold. Instead, it stayed cold and we got moisture. The result was snow. It snowed over night and this […]
Last Tuesday, I saw the [Night at the Museum](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477347/) as part of a free screening through work. After a long hiatus, work has started doing free screenings again. They tend to be bad movies since the studios don’t need to promote the good or popular movies as much. I heard people complaining about the awfulness […]
I am going to start writing short reviews of books I read. I just finished [Dies the Fire](http://www.amazon.com/Dies-Fire-S-M-Stirling/dp/0451459792P) by S. M. Stirling. It is connected to his previous series where Nantucket is sent back time. The Event causes all electronics and explosives to stop working. Civilization collapses and knocks the human race is knocked back […]
I think I got all the old posts converted to using Markdown. Since this blog started with [Textpattern](http://www.textpattern.com) which uses [Textile](http://textism.com/tools/textile/), most of the posts were in that format. Typo was smart enough to handle posts in different markup formats and switch formats to Markdown a few months ago. WordPress is not smart enough to […]
Since switching to WordPress, I have been playing around with WordPress themes. I am looking for a minimalist style with black text on a white background. I prefer variable-width two-column themes while themes seem to be fixed-width. I am not a big fan of top navigation bars or header images. * [ScribbishWP](http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/scribbishwp) is a port […]