Fairness

Even monkeys don’t like inequality…

The First Website Ever

Today is the 20th anniversary of the first web site ever. Via The Verge, the original website has been restored to its original url:

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

I Hate Time Warner

This post may or may not actually make it to the internet because my Time Warner Cable internet is so slow. I reboot my cable modem about every other day. And we reboot our DVR just as often.

We get FIOS a week from tomorrow. Internet twice as fast and two DVRs cheaper than Time Warner gets me lame internet and one DVR.

I just went to speedtest.net. 4.7 Mb download and 0.9Mb upload. That is so lame.

I can’t wait to dump Time Warner…

Happy Birthday Ella

Google has a nice doodle for what would have been Ella Fitzgerald’s 96th birthday. No matter what your musical tastes, if you do not own any music by Ella, you are missing out. My 10 year old can tell you that she is my favorite singer ever and always will be.

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned that her Christmas Album is the best Christmas album ever. Any of her stuff with Louis Armstrong is great. Twelve Nights in Hollywood is a brilliant two CD set of live performances (she’s especially good live). Oh seriously, you can’t go wrong with any of her stuff.

Just listen and enjoy…

Origami Risk is #1

Dave Tweedy is the most prominent consultant in the Insurance Risk Management Software niche. Every year he publishes a review of RMIS (Risk Management Information System) Vendors.

This year the top vendor was Origami Risk. We rock.

The top 5 (like golf, low score is best)

Vendor	Score
Origami Risk	1.50
Riskonnect	1.62
CS STARS	1.75
Aon Risk Console	1.81
Risk Sciences Group	1.84

To download the review, click here.

Wet Washcloth in Space

These videos from the International Space Station are great…

New Bed #1

Victoria’s bed arrived yesterday, so I put it together this morning. She wanted a bunk bed, so that is what she got (small room, tall ceilings, makes sense).

She’s a happy girl…

Life Continues

Origami Risk has taken the bulk of my attention for the past several years. In the early years it also took the bulk of my extra income.

So lately we’ve been playing catch-up with some family stuff. I mentioned the bedroom split out. This involves new beds for both girls, some new bedroom furniture and new carpets (the current carpets have an interesting collection of stains).

And today we did the initial orthodontist appointment for Danielle. This is my genetic fault (big teeth, small mouth). We’ve known this was coming for a while, so we’ve set aside some cash.

It just feels like life moving on. New bedrooms, braces, furniture, life. Expensive, but all good.

How come when I had braces there were no color options?…

Random Lizz Comments

A blog post from our upstairs neighbor Lizz Winstead.

CitiBike

This could be nice. New York is starting a bike share program. Imagine bike stations all over the city. You can get a bike at one spot and drop it off somewhere else. Sign up for a $100 annual membership and you can grab a bike anytime for 45 minutes for no charge (longer rentals will cost more).

They are putting in the bike stands right now. The program is supposed to start in May. The program can only be useful if those stations are in lots of convenient locations. Seems like there are going to be a lot of them.

It turns out that there is one about a block from our apartment and there’s another one right in front of my office. So I can just hop on a bike and ride to/from work (that trip would be 10 minutes tops).

I’m looking forward to trying it out.