clock … watching time, the only true currency

I dearly love my children. Truly.
Still, the last few unexpected hours of time without the children on a Saturday afternoon has been a joy. Enough said. Among other mundane tasks, I got WordPress up to date, filled out an annoying but necessary application, and solved a problem for my wife. Not hyper productive, but satisfying.
The [...]

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Phew. Caught up with all the reading I did this late spring and summer, just before Labor Day comes to a close. My apologies to those flooded with these blog reports of several months of reading in a handful of days. Now back to our regular irregular updates.

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My thanks to the anonymous commenter who alerted me that my RSS feed was borked. It’s fixed now, with thanks to Otto for the tip.
Now I just have to blog the 17 books I’ve read in the last few months.

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Boring, but happy it’s done.

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About time I moved from version 2.0.3 of WordPress. Last post before I do so…

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…the wife who gives you grief for blogging mentions that your blog is getting stale. Hmmm… maybe I can clean out the inbox later tonight.

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And another year has passed. Kids happily re-gifted some of their presents to me, and cupcakes were enjoyed by all.
I started the day in darkness with a mile run on the Kezar track, as I’ve done occasionally in past years. 5:23 left me convinced that I haven’t slowed down too much, although I can’t find [...]

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Since Dennis finds it useful, and assures me I can get my data out, I’m going to move my exercise notes to We Endure. That will clean out some of the “noise” here at clock. Until I put a badge on this blog, you can follow my “progress” on my user page. No more exercise [...]

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I’m using my blog as a testbed for something new cooked up by Aaron and Noah. If you visit my blog at http://www.pencoyd.com/clock/ (instead of just reading via the RSS feed), you’ll see a yellow button on the right-hand side of the page, under the heading “Are you using OpenDNS?”
The button has two states: one [...]

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OK, I’m biased. But I think OpenDNS CacheCheck is remarkable. Very simple, sure: you can see what address OpenDNS has for a domain, and ask OpenDNS to refresh that address if it’s not correct. Nothing more. Read what I wrote on the OpenDNS blog for more.
But if it’s so simple, how come no one has [...]

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