Jynnan Tonnyx

  • Everything Old is New Again

    It’s kind of fun to see old (but good) ideas about usability and feature bloat return to the forefront in a product. Those of us who remember the night-and-day difference between the Macintosh and MS-DOS (or even Windows 3.1) think of this as axiomatic – that the software should get out of your way as…

  • Man, What Did I Get Myself Into?

    Or is that “Into What Did I Get Myself?” We had a special homeowners’ meeting last night for our townhome HOA, because the entire board resigned two months ago. Only four were speaking up to be on it, so I volunteered, partly at Jennie’s prompting, to fill the fifth seat. Little did I know that…

  • Hail the Trojans

    Congratulations to USC, who played a terrific game in last night’s Orange Bowl. They had my Sooners beat at every turn.

  • Fools and the Fools Who Follow Them

    Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Alexander Pope You know what’s funny? Our invasion of Iraq would have worked better in 1990, when the Bush who was then President, and the Cheney who was then Secretary of Defense, were afraid to do it.

  • Sabrina’s Six-month Pictures

    So I know I’ve been promising pictures of Sabrina for a long time, and today I finally have some. The new WordPress software I’m running the site on has a plug-in that makes this really easy. So here you go. We had these taken about a week or so after Sabrina’s six-month birthday.

  • Well, That Sucked

    Losing at home, on national television, in a divisional game, in weather favorable to your team, with the division lead on the line, to your most hated rival (who are only 3-7) on a blocked field goal, by one point? It doesn’t get much uglier than that. Final score: Raiders 25, Broncos 24.

  • Going to Broncos-Raiders!

    My Dad just called and said a friend has two extra seats to the Broncos–Raiders game at Mile High tonight! Of course, the temperature outside is about 25° F, but what the hell? I’ve never been to the new stadium, and I’ve never gotten to watch Shanahan demolish the Raiders in person, either.

  • New Management Software

    Things will be a little shaky around here for a while until I get the new WordPress software up and running well. I was using Movable Type, but the license terms for the newest version were unacceptable, and the version I was using, 2.661, was getting comment-spammed into oblivion. The last straw came today when…

  • Who Will Save Superman?

    I saw this tidbit today, and all I could think was “Thank God!” Any Superman fan who saw Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle should be relieved. That was one of the few sequels I’ve ever seen that was so bad it made me regret seeing the first one. They’re apparently still having casting problems, too, after…

  • Regime Change Begins at Home

    As the rhetoric gets louder and louder, with less and less connection to reality, I feel a responsibility to say – I was wrong to support the Bush administration in invading Iraq. It seems clear to me that the President was willing to claim whatever was necessary to justify our invasion, willfully misinterpreting (or flat-out…