Alan's Place

This will be a very quick blog post, perhaps more appropriately classified as a "shout-out". The PDF format is wonderful for prese...

At work this week, I've been looking at upgrading our website from the home-built effort that is looking fairly stale to something a bit...

In preperation for my family's upcoming vacation to Cayucos , I decided to give our 2001 Chevy Suburban a tune-up and try to figure out ...

The little league baseball season was wrapped up for my team (AAA division, mostly 9-10 year olds) this Saturday, when closing day ceremonie...

What can I say other than, "Life is very busy". I'll try to provide a few updates here, however. Little League Baseball The se...

It has been well over a month since I last wrote anything here, and as you may guess, I have been very busy. I'll try to catch up a bit ...

Woo-hoo! I received some great news yesterday during my appointment with the orthopedic surgeon. It turns out that the protrusion of bone on...

Ug. Maybe I should rename this blog to Alan's Place Where He Bitches About His Injuries... Yes, a new year has come, and a new injury al...

Of all the scripting languages out there, I would have to say that Python is my favorite. I don't use it a lot, but when I need to whip...

I must confess that when it comes to Unicode , I have buried my head in the sand and deliberately tried to ignore the whole transition mess ...

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It has been just over one year since my last calf muscle injury . The blog post I made on the subject is the #1 post for my humble blog, as ...

The final destination of our grand Italian vacation was the beautiful city of Venice . They say that the farther you go North in Italy, the ...

While we stayed in Rome for the week, we made two day trips during those 7 days. Our first day trip (by way of a very comfortable high speed...

Well, things have been very busy for me and my family, but I have a few spare minutes and thought that I would update the blog on our bigges...

Ace, our dog of almost 13 years, was laid to rest on Friday March 21st, 2008. He leaves behind a family that misses him terribly. I've ...

In this old post , I spilled the beans on my new and improved spam filtering triple play: dspam , qgreylist and RBL checking. Overall, the...

So, here we are over two weeks into our little league baseball season - how is our team doing? Well, we have 0 wins and 4 losses, so one cou...

In a post I made about one year ago, I mentioned a script which I created which trains dspam to recognize missed spam email, and corrects ...

Wow - it's a little dusty around here, isn't it? I haven't updated the ole' blog in months , and every time I did think abou...