The Guy Upstairs and his DNAs

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Mike has what seems to me to be a very cool job and yet it can get very morbid. I first met Mike the Spring before 911 when he and his wife moved in upstairs. Mike works for a DNA lab/consulting outfit and it was his firm that ran the mammoth job of trying to [...]

Here we go again

Sunday, September 26th, 2004

These storms are getting to be a real drag. It is really annoying to have to call my family in Florida just to ask if they are swimming in their living rooms. This all reminds that I forgot to mention one very important app used by FPL in their dealings with these storms. FGMS [...]

Smalltalk is my day job

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

Yesterday, I commemorated the half way point in my life or possibly the 2/3 rd point , my family runs that spectrum. I feel like I am rushing to a finish line in a race that I should not want to finish. Life is just flying by. It was only yesterday that I was looking [...]

Big Blue

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

Just yesterday I received an email that from a Smalltalker out at a utility in the midwest. A utility which I never had heard of before using Smalltalk. He told me that after seeing my post in c.l.s regarding FPL and its Smalltalk systems and that he contacted a colleague over there and was told [...]

When trouble means trouble

Monday, September 6th, 2004

Here I go again, this is my second blog entry but this time I am blogging via James’s BottomFeeder which supposedly guarantees safe passage, we shall see.
Hurricane Frances was of special concern to me since I have family in both Miami and Ft. Lauderdale and know first hand from Hurricane Andrew how destructive these things [...]