Alan's Place

After leaving Hood River, we had a relatively short four hour trip to our next destination - Silverdale, WA. My wife's parents live ther...

Breaking camp early in the morning on the 4th of July, we made the 8+ hour drive from Lake Shasta to Hood River, OR . Driving along the bank...

When we last left our hero, he was struggling to figure out why the .net compiled engine was so damn slow . When it comes to diagnosing perf...

I have been using Delphi since version 1.0. When Delphi first appeared on the market, it blew the doors off Visual Basic 3.0. It was a rapid...

Other than camp and eat near-gourmet quality food (if I do say so myself) while at Lake Shasta, what else did we do? For each of the two ful...

Prior to this summer, our family had not driven farther than the distance from Oceanside to San Mateo, to visit my brother and his family up...

About 4 weeks ago, the little league baseball season was wrapping up, and we held our end of the season team party at a park close by. Arou...

Over the weekend, I attended a conference in the suburbs of scenic Cleveland, Ohio. During our stay, we saw a few of the following sights: F...

Ah yes, that wonderful time of the year has come when the water warms up enough to put away the 3mm/2mm wetsuit I've been wearing for th...

Last Sunday was the annual Fish Fry - a gathering of surfers and shapers who enjoy surfing fish surfboards. A "fish" surfboard is ...

Ok, this post is brought to you by the fine folks at Homestarrunner.com . If you can remember the first generation graphical adventure games...

So, I decided that since I had to cut my Christmas / New Year's vacation one week short (due to work) that now seemed as good a time as ...

Well, things have been real quiet around the blog lately because things are anything but quiet in life. Baseball and softball monopolize fo...

The picture above is from Wednesday, December 21st, 2005. With the winter sun lower and to the southwest, I thought the back-lit take-off z...

The day after I took the picture below (at D Street), the bulk of northwest swell slammed into North San Diego county. Swami's picks up ...

December was very good to surfers in North San Diego county. The above picture was taken on December 20, 2005 at D street in Encinitas. An ...

... and our brief period of no youth sport practices and games has come to an end. Between the end of soccer (November or so) and the beginn...

Yesterday, one of the developers at work attempted to add approximately 14,000 files to one of our subversion (aka svn) source control repo...

Ah yes... the first major infectious epidemic of 2006 to ravage through our house seems to finally be contained. I am speaking of Pink Eye ,...

subtitled, "It's About Damn Time" The holidays have come and gone, and we are all still alive. That's always a good thing...