Screws In My Coffee

Sometimes as  an IT professional I believe that technical solutions are too complicated for the problem they are intending to solve.   As I was riding my bike into work today I was thinking about a layer three networking project that I am involved with.  I thought about a movie that I saw back in 1980 titled " The Gods Must Be Crazy " and remembered how I felt about technology back then.  At that time i did not own a computer but I felt that technology was the answer to everything.  I had come out of almost a decade of living off the social and economic grid living in a religious community working as a cook in the San Bernardino mountains east of Los Angeles (another story about this in another blog posting). I was came from a low tech world where everything I did was done in using the KISS (keep it simple stupid) methodology.  I was responsible for cooking and maintenance duties at a mountain retreat which had up to 100 visitors on weekends and 20 to 50 residents during th

I was amazed to see this graphic when I started Chrome on my CentOS box tonight.  I had been riding all day so I wanted to update my blog.  like I always do I hovered over the graphic to see why Google had changed their logo.  Much to my surprise the tool tip message wished me a happy birthday. well I may have to rescind my bah humbug attitude to birthday wishes from cyber space, this is really cool (at least for me)

Ready to ride

My wife made a bison burger for me for dinner.  It was too tall after I added two slices of her home made bread and tomatoes.