A life in words

  • What did you do today?

    Today… sitting sleeping showering eating reading thinking imagining dreaming programming eating sniffling breathing playing sighing reading listening watching talking wondering hugging tickling eating plotting planning checking worrying hoping praying being

  • A Just Cause

    I’ve got to read more Dostoevsky! I think you all might enjoy a few of his quotes. I’ve highlighted a few words here and there to make it a better simulation of a motivational poster! “A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes” “The soul is healed by being with children”€ “What is…

  • Automated Merger of GEDCOM Files

    Have you ever had the misfortune of having to merge two GEDCOM files while doing family history research? I hope not. It’€™s dehumanizing. Dehumanizing? Yes, because doing a job that should be done 99% by a machine is most definitely de-human-izing. Here’€™s a typical example: Billy Bob Jones and Suzy Lee Jones are a brother…

There is nothing I dread so much, as a division of the Republic into two great Parties, each arranged under its leader and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This in my humble apprehension is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson, 2 Oct 1780