Comcast Business Services

Posted on December 15th, 2008 in Life by Administrator

We had a complete outage at our office today of Internet connectivity and business phone service (8 lines). The outage lasted for about 3 hours and 40 minutes.

We are with Comast Business Services. Way to go guys. Hey, it’s Comcastic!.

How to be Cruel to Old Guys

Posted on December 15th, 2008 in Humor by Administrator

This was forwarded to me via email today and I thought you might get a kick out of it. The subject line of the email was How to be Cruel to Old Guys.

Eye Chart

Office Safety

Posted on December 12th, 2008 in Family, Government, Humor by Administrator

It’s really important to have safe work practices. But how many people remember to take precautions against government or alien mind control?

Mikie has thought about these issues and many more. Here she is with her special aluminum foil hat. It is guaranteed to protect you against alien or government mind control!

Mikie Space Hat

It’s a Willow Wonderland

Posted on December 8th, 2008 in Family, Household by Administrator

Mikie has been busy hanging lights and now we are extremely festive here at the Willow Wonderland!

Willow Wonderland

December 2008 Python Meetup

Posted on December 8th, 2008 in Computers by Administrator

For anyone who is interested in Python programming, there is a monthly Houston Python Meet-up tomorrow evening. Here are the details:

Date/Time: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Location: The Sauté Bistro, 2303 Richmond Avenue, Houston, TX 77098 (713-522-2106)

I will be giving a presentation about using Python with Amazon Web Services.

Here are various URLs from the presentation:

Main AWS Site.

API Tools

API Docs

CloudFront Docs

boto

Keynote presentation

Presentation as a PDF

Full Featured Python-S3 program

Twenty Rules for Amazon Cloud Security

The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter

Posted on December 2nd, 2008 in Nature, Science by Administrator

We went outside last night to see an unusual phenomenon in the night sky. The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter were unusually close together. It was quite a sight and I tried to take some pictures with my little camera and Mikie’s tripod.

Thanksgiving, 2008

Posted on December 2nd, 2008 in Family by Administrator

Mikie and I drove to my sister’s house in Boerne, TX for Thanksgiving this year. It’s about a 4-hour drive from our house. We were both a bit under the weather from recent colds, but had a nice time nonetheless. My sis is a superb entertainer and made a fancy dinner for about 30 people look like a walk in the park.

We have a few photos that we took on their property that show various farm critters.