Half-marathon training – giving it another go
I’m starting my notes on yet another attempt at besting my half-marathon PR. The last two attempts have been thwarted by knee, achilles and assorted other issues. I’ve changed up a few things to...
Author: Larry
The Dragonbone Chair re-read – Part Three – Simon Snowlock
This is the last part of The Dragonbone Chair re-read. I may have gotten a bit over-zealous with maps and charts this time….but Tad made this section longer than the previous two so it...
Cloud Storage Options (with pricing table)
There are several options for cloud storage with different pricing options and some slight difference in features. Pricing is changing quite a bit. The table below tries to show for a given amount of...
The Dragonbone Chair re-read – Part Two – Simon Pilgrim
The names of the three parts of The Dragonbone Chair (Simon Mooncalf, Simon Pilgrim, Simon Snowlock) certainly show the progression in Simon’s character. In this second part, he is outside of the Hayholt for...
The Dragonbone Chair re-read – Part One – Simon Mooncalf
It has been a long time since I re-read a book, and I do not remember since college re-reading one in the method I’m using for this re-read of The Dragonbone Chair. I’m actually going...
REVIEW: Simple Qigong for Health: Enhanced Edition with video
As a developer of enhanced eBooks, I notice it is easy to use too much media (an overabundance of non-germane videos, audio or pictures), or to not put it in the right places. The...
Tad Williams is Ruining my Calm
Life is too short for re-reads. Do the math. If your good reading-and-comprehension (yes, some of you hear Cheech and Chong’s voices in your heads) years range from age 10 to 80, and you...
What time does an Apple provisioning profile expire?
For those of you that do not get the challenges of living in the Apple Developer world, a bit of background: To deploy an iOS app outside of the Apple App Store, either as...
We Survived the Fort Collins Bicycle Breweries Tour
A tour of several Fort Collins breweries (13 as of this writing)? On bicycles you say? It wasn’t a bike like the one in the photo (that is for next time), but this is...
Springsteen but no Lillyhammer
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – The Woodlands, Texas, May 6, 2014 On a recent trip to see good friends in Hawaii (yes, this story does start on a beautiful island), after...