anacronyms

Some time ago (actually, in January) I went back to the gym because I was getting too fat.
January:
Weight 242
Chest 48
Belly 45
Arm 16
Just now:
Weight 240 (I lost 2 lbs!)
Chest 49 1/2
Belly 44 1/2
Arm [...]

I’ve been going through some of my older stuff the last while.
I’m a better writer than I was two years ago. I’m a much better writer than I was when I started writing three years ago.
It happened one morning. I went in to work early, arriving shortly before 6:00 AM. I sat down, and [...]

Many of us in the IT field have had to deal with SOX requirements, the glitzy, new-and-improved auditing rules enforced by the Sarbanes-Oxley act. This act came into being as a result of corporate scandals like the Enron disaster.
Anybody involved in SOX compliance knows what a royal pain in the ass it is. Personally, I [...]

Markets come and go.
If you find a list of fiction markets, like, say this one, you’re likely to find that a hefty percentage of the links are dead. Online markets, in particular, seem to appear and disappear like mushrooms in the forest.
You know I don’t do this for the money, don’t you? If you [...]

I missed Paris. Paris in the spring…
Chris sings with somebody or other. They do their alt-rock-godness thing. Or is that ‘thang’? I’m never sure. Meh, as the kids say.
Pickler does a painful bit with a nonplussed Wolfgang Puck. Whoever thought this up should be lightly diced and sauteed in that virulent orange sauce that passes [...]

Katherine: Black Horse Cherry Tree – beautifully controlled. This girl has a wonderful, wonderful voice. But the novelty of the song is gone.
Taylor: Living For the City – voice to voice, he’s not as good. But he’s really putting his heart into this. He’s got the place rocking.
First round: Taylor, on energy.
Katherine: Somewhere [...]

This is Idol stuff, so if you’re not into that, move along.
Before the show starts, before a note has been sung, I think Taylor will win tonight.

So I had a couple of posts composed today… and they’ve flown. Gone.
I need net resources on DB2. If you know of any cool ones, speak up. I’ve found a bunch, but personal recommendations are always better than wandering around blind.
Did you ever notice that the voice of Fred on Scooby-Doo is emphatically not that [...]

I have a story in the spring issue of Subterranean magazine. This is a new magazine and I believe it is going in limited distribution to book stores, so your odds of finding it are slim. I suggest, therefore, that you buy it online.
And I do suggest you buy it. I’m reasonably happy with [...]

I’ve been around the net a long time. I was on the net before AOL was. I remember the outrage that accompanied the onrush of the ‘AOLamers’ and their ‘me, too’ posts on USENET. And I remember the genesis of the word ‘Spam’.
Which is a way of noting that when I feel a violent urge [...]