Author: Ian

I have been watching 42up, which has been following some people who grew up in England. They started at age 7 then visited them 14, 21, 28, 35 and now they are at 42 years old. I think more than anything else it is just depressing.

Should I feel productive? I just closed out 2 enhancement requests.

I am looking at my task list wondering if anything will jump out at me and look exciting enough to consider working on it. Most of the things are pending other people doing something first before I can close it off….

I just played around with a new tool from Microsoft for making IIS more secure. Pity it wouldn’t even complete on my machine since I had removed idq.dll at some point in the past. It would also be nice if there was a hint of a document explaining how it is doing things. Nice start but fairly useless in an environment of more than 1 machine.

Ok now my whole body is sore.

Yeah but I had a great days hiking. We started off about 9am this morning drove to Old rag near Shenandoah. Got to the car park about 10:30am. Hiked up to the summit then followed the circuit route back down the fire road then onto the car park back to the car by 5:30.
Here are a couple pictures

I can’t belive the week has been going so fast. Before I know it, it will be Christmas. I some times look back and wonder what have I done with the 4 years I have spent in the US. I think of Edinburgh, Scotland as my home, but I only spent 4 years at University there. Should I now consider D.C. as my home since soon I will have spent more time living in D.C. than I did in Edinburgh?

Dirty Sam Roberts
You’re the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean — not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. Two things complete your pirate persona: style and swagger. Maybe a little too much swagger sometimes — but who really cares? Arr!

Thanks to for the link to What’s your Pirate Name

I am going to see Saturday Night Fever tonight at the NIH. I just checked the web site and it has this note at the top “The Saturday Night Fever print we received from the studio is Rated R. We have removed some scenes, however, there is strong graphic language in this movie, which may not be appropriate for children.”
All I can say is COOL!