Overheard : Comment about embassies
Comment by historian Thoman Naftali, on NPR‘s The World program, about the decision by the US state department to sell the building that the US embassy...
Week 16 training and my first outdoor camping trip
After the rough 20 miler last weekend, I was not able to run any of the mid week runs this week. But I did manage to...
Skyscrapers, McDonald's and weasels…
During dinner with a friend recently, we brooded on these three topics.. Skyscrapers : My friend lives on the 34th floor of a 47(?) floor high...
HOWTO : Use find and grep together
If you ever wanted to search for a particular text in certain types of files in Linux, you can use the following combo of find and...
A couple thousand more reasons to run the marathon
I was watching a recent episore of “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” (sports show on HBO), which had a story about the plight of “debt” children...
Week 14 & 15 training update
The last two weeks had been a bit crazy at work due to the recent hurricane hoopla we exeprienced here in the US. I was barely...