Larry’s Log

Professionally, I’m a factory automation designer with eighteen years experience. I work with both hardware and software design for controlling and monitoring manufacturing and packaging processes. Currently I am employed by Polytron as an engineer.
Personally I’m a native Tennesseean, born in Chattanooga, who has been married for over twenty-six years — to the same wonderful [...]

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I can understand the frustration when someone publishes something and by the time you comment on it the words have changed. Still, in an activity that should be relaxing and reflective and suddenly everything you write is placed under a microscope for edits then that relaxing, reflective environment is destroyed and the destroyer is an [...]

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Last week a limb broke lose from a tree during a heavy storm, fell on a car and killed a man here in Atlanta. Last night a 70 ft. 100+ year old tree uprooted during another storm falling on a car killing a mother and her two young sons. The woman’s husband was driving the [...]

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I always get nervous when politicians starts labeling themselves a Fiscal Conservative and a Social Liberal, or Progressive or whatever. I haven’t seen one yet that will stop at just allowing an individual personal freedoms and privacy they at some point want to start writing checks to the underprivilidged. You can’t be free spending with [...]

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From Voice of America News:
The Sudanese foreign minister says Tuesday’s plane crash in Sudan, which killed at least 115 people, was the direct result of U.S. sanctions.

The claim is that since they couldn’t buy spare parts for the plane due to US sanctions against their country the airplane was unairworthy and crashed.
Bullshit! If the plane [...]

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Via Mark Paschal, Adam Curry shows us that he has more bucks than brains.
Or maybe it’s me the one who’s clueless. I don’t see how the (not)Echo project stands to damage Mr. Curry in the least bit. RSS 2.0 will continue to be supported by aggregators for the foreseeable future. Even if it wasn’t, changing [...]

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Dave Winer: RSS 2.0 is cool because it’s all specified in one place, written in simple non-technical English that your VP-Business Development could probably understand.
RSS 2.0 is cool. It is great that it’s all specified in one place. The fact that it is written in simple non-technical English is part of the problem with it, [...]

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The U.S. and France have been at odds lately. One U.S. Senator recently branded french a “near forgotten” language in some of the rhetoric bandied about. This caused some reflection on the state of things among some french intellectuals.

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I’ve been out in the garage vacuuming and detailing my wife’s 2000 Sebring JXi Convertible. Earlier today she had bought a Beach Boys compilation CD and it just seemed appropriate to turn up the volume on the CD player while I was working on the car. I was having a blast.
After about 15 minutes my [...]

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While I’m not as unhappy with President George W. Bush as many of my peers are there are some things about this presidency that I’m still uneasy with. I like tax cuts as much as the next guy but I’m more intrigued with true government spending cuts. You know, where they spend fewer total dollars [...]

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I just ran my necho 0.1 feed through the Userland RSS Validator and it validated. What better endorsement for necho than this?

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Yet another syndication format, necho 0.1, has been introduced by Sam Ruby and gang. Sam offered a preliminary spec for the format and others are releasing feeds in this format so I’m following suit. My necho 0.1 file can be found in my list of syndication feeds there on the right.

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I’m playing again. Google is doing targeted advertising and I’m curious as to what ads appear for various topics. For now and the forseeable future you will see ads on this site. These ads are suppose to be relevent to the topic of the page and I want to see what they are keying on. [...]

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