David Given Schwarm

The Coolest Vehicle I’ve Driven

Sexy VW Bus VW Bus

A Lesson I Wish I Had Learned Earlier

Head from a Female Sphinx Sobriety

When Kids Should Get Cell Phones

Modeling Kate Barton Austin Texas 8

The Fallen Years by Paul Rogov

I ordered this on Amazon because I know the writer. I read Paul’s book over a two month period–mostly because Lisa lost it & then I stuck it in a back pack I was not using very often. I published a review because Paul asked me to–mostly cribbed from the back cover of books that were on…

Tears of Stone by The Chieftains

Tears of Stone by The Chieftains is a great collaboration album with Irish Super Stars singing with Female Singers from various traditions. Mostly Folk–but some Jazz & World musicians sneaking in. A fun record with a great beat–the kids love to dance to anything Irish.

User Authorization Cache

This week the CA Tip is on AZ Cache. The Policy Server caching framework is something that I have struggled with a lot over the years–I seem to think of ‘front end cache’ and ‘back end cache’–FEC is the stuff that is cached between policy server & web agent and BEC is the stuff cached…

13 Assassins

I watched this on Netflix on my iPhone late at night. It was completely fantastic. The villian is horrible, the party is awesome. The final battle scene which clocks in at about an hour is non stop excitement. I could have used a bit more back story on some of the Characters–they all kind of…

31. Joshu Investigates

A traveling monk asked an old woman the road to Taizan, a popular temple supposed to give wisdom to the one who worships there. The old woman said: “Go straight ahead.” When the monk proceeded a few steps, she said to herself: “He also is a common church-goer.” Someone told this incident to Joshu, who…