I’ve been a progammer for too many years to count, and I’ve always been one to roll my own solutions to problems, so why am I using a public blogging service instead of diving into Perl and making my own? I have actually done it before. Back in the early days of the web, when… Continue reading Getting Lazy in My Old Age
Author: hmelton
Naming of Names
I went into a restaurant and put my name on the waiting list, watching closely what she wrote down. Amazing, she spelled it correctly. Did you know that easily a third of the times I give my first name, people will spell it H E N E R Y. Now, this has been going on… Continue reading Naming of Names
On the Road
When your youngest child is heading off to college, there is a term for it — the empty nest syndrome. My wife, Mary Ann, is an organized person, and she had been planning for it. For this first year on our own again, we have a travel schedule that looks overwhelming. We just returned from… Continue reading On the Road