Good day to you, fine reader. Although I don’t post much, I do get frequent visitors to this site. To you I bid welcome. I’m not a great one for self-promotion or self-aggrandising blogs, but I do like to keep friends and relatives up to date on my latest information. Really I’ve been busy. I mean really busy the last couple of weeks both at work and at home. This

It’s been a while since I posted. Quite frankly time has been scarce of late. Basically I’ve been talking to my father again… for those that know me they know this is unusual. It’s been good, and I’m enjoying communicating with him again. Hopefully we’ll stay in communication this time. On top of that there’s been the usual hectic work schedule and home life… and of course just generally living

So apparently my blog is at least visible enough that somebody decides to post spam to the comments for my “People are Strange” entry. I suppose I should be happy that I’m so loved… alternatively somewhat annoyed that someone’s using my comments engine to attempt to sell people something. No worries… I have this blog set up for comments to be approved before they can be seen for EXACTLY this

Not much to update on really. Weather’s typical for St. Louis apart from a rather unexpected cold streak the last week or so. Not to worry, back to 100 degrees by this weekend. This is not a good thing in case you’re wondering. Just a couple of links to post that I found myself laughing hard at. My thanks to my friends who forwarded me these two links, and keep

Why me? Myself and at least one of my friends have been having lots of system problems of late, and I can’t figure out what it is. Is it the weather? Sun spots? My influence? Am I just scaring the bejeezus out of every computer I get near??? Basically over the weekend I had some system problems. My apologies to any friends of mine who suddenly received email from me

Well, not much to write about really, but I figured I’d just jump in and start blithering about movies (which is a subject that’s been on my mind of late). First of all, just a quickie for all you out there; apparently the Doom movie might not suck as has been feared by me since I first heard about it. Now, I’ll take this article with a pinch of salt

Well, some teething trouble with the new blog engine that some may or may not have noticed last night. Basically, I had to make a change in the configuration to Apache (the web server) in order to make this all link up properly. If you typed in http://www.nodecaf.net/blog (without a trailing /) then you’d get redirected to the internal name of the server (in my home network), which of course

Well, you can probably see I’ve made some changes here. I’ve decided finally to forego my own developed solution and revert to a freely available BLOG engine called Bblog. Actually pretty friendly, and still utilizing the same old backend stuff (MySQL), though runs PHP instead of PERL. Give me a couple of weeks, I’ll be modifying this code to fit the way I want this to work, of course Honestly,

The last couple of weeks since my last entry have been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster all things considered. I’ve had good days at work and bad days. I’m starting to see light at the end of the tunnel as regards some of my major projects, and I’m looking forward to some other projects that are coming down the pike that I really like the look of. Should be

This is starting to become a weekly thing, isn’t it? Well, almost weekly. It’s at least updated when I have something to say! This week I don’t have much to update on, just some rambling to let people know that I’m still alive. So what’s been happening this week? Well, not much truth be told. As an update to one of my earlier postings, I am going home again. Yep,