because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in nerdliness on Dec 29th, 2007
Zanshin.net is moving to a new host this weekend. The DNS change has been initiated and should complete in the a day or so. (For the uninitiated, Domain Name Servers provide the translation between the URL you type (zanshin.net) and the actual IP address of the site. Moving to a new host [...]
Posted in life on Apr 24th, 2007
The move to a new office building seems to have gone very smoothly. All of my office items where here waiting for me upon my arrival Monday, and better still, none were broken or damaged. There was network connectivity and my phone worked. Almost anti-climatic after the several weeks of build up.
The [...]
Posted in life on Nov 2nd, 2006
I’m thinking about moving….
I stopped in the apartment office yesterday after work thinking about alarms and left thinking about moving to an upstairs apartment.
There is an alarm option. $30 one time installation fee and then $25 per month for the monitoring service. It is an intrusion alarm that will trigger a call to the police [...]
Today marks the two year anniversary of my employment here in Kansas City. Saying that the past two years have been tumultuous would be a massive understatement. If, as Nietzsche said, “That which does not kill you will only make you stronger”, then I am stronger today than I’ve ever been in my life.
In the [...]
Posted in life on Dec 13th, 2004
I feel as if my future and my life is hanging by a thread today. After months of waiting and hoping, it appears that I maybe given an opportunity to return to Illinois and work on a contract there. This would allow us to retain our house, and the considerable financial investment it represents. It [...]
Remember the posters that show some cute animal, usually a polar bear with a paw over its eyes, that have a caption that reads, “Just when I figured out the answers, someone changes the questions.”? That poster pretty much sums up my life this weekend.
A Brief History
In April 1998, Michele and I moved from Springfield [...]
Posted in life on Jun 24th, 2004
For some weeks now I have been sitting on an offer of work in Kansas City. It was the first, and is still the only, offer I’ve generated in over three months of looking. Because it is located in a city I had never before considered it was hard initially to generate any enthusiasm for [...]
Posted in life on Jun 18th, 2004
This week has been a new experience in letting go for me. I spent considerable time sifting through more than fifty boxes of stuff in our garage, preparing for a potential move.
We have a 3-bay garage, with generous shelf space in the main portion, and a virtual storage locker, with more shelves in the separate [...]
Posted in life on Jun 13th, 2004
One way or another I am nearing the end of my period of unemployment. The next few days will see me commit to either a full-time job in Kansas City or accept an as-yet-to-be-made offer to work 4 days a week from home on a java development project. The former starts in just two weeks [...]
Posted in life on Mar 25th, 2004
For the past week I have been dealing with the emotional fallout of losing my job. My wife and I have talked about many options, and many geographical solutions to this situation. No less than six states and two countries have been considered in our search for the next place.
With each new location there would [...]
