Hmm, is this geeky or just plain cool?

Some time back, my therapist said something unnerving to me.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
--Abraham Maslow

So, I've been doing a lot of strange things at work the past couple of weeks. And, by strange I mean working around problems like trying to get things done without spending money. That always seems to lead me through some interesting back doors and into areas that I've not been before.

So, I was thumbing through my copy of The New Hacker's Dictionary and I came across this gem:

Hanlon's Razor /prov./

My mother always told me that all that reading would make me smarter. Now, thanks to this article on MSN about just that thing, she has some extra weight for her argument. Apparently, someone at UC Berkley actually did a study and wrote it all up in a paper called What Reading Does for the Mind. Based on that study, we get three benefits from reading, especially when we start young. First, reading increases vocabulary more than talking or direct teaching.

Hey, remember the days when I talked about geek stuff all the time?

At least, in an urban environment.

Oh, so many things on my mind and so many ways to get into trouble talking about them.

So, I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress not too long ago so I could test a little project of mine. Way back in the early days of blogging, when all these fancy programs were new and not so user friendly, I concieved of a beautiful way to present fiction to a large audience for free. Well, okay, me and about a million other people, but, still, I had an artistic vision. No, really! My idea was to keep a journal in the manner and style of a character from a fictional world via a blog.

On this day in 1951, my profession was, essentially "born".