Another belated birthday post, and another reminder to myself that I really want to get into the habit of blogging often.
We moved into a house last year, after several years of renting. We like it. It is a little farther away from our jobs than we would like, but …
It's been a couple of years since my last birthday post, and I want to get into the habit of blogging again, so here's another intermittently-annual State of the Kris post.
The last year has been pretty good, and the new year has started with some significant changes. I've been …
When I was a kid, back in the 70's and 80's, I thought chess programs were the most sophisticated computer programs in the world. That was back when the average personal-computer chess program wasn't very good, and dedicated chess computers cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, so it seemed to …
So, suddenly, I'm 50 years old. Almost a quarter of my life behind me.
50 really doesn't seem that bad. 40 felt much more like an oh-man-I'm-old-and-have-wasted-my-life event. I'm much happier now than I was then. This has been a great decade for me. I met a wonderful woman, and …
I'm writing this yearly update later than I usually do. A few things have been unsettled, and I didn't want to write until I had some idea how they would turn out.
We had been planning to buy the house we were living in, but that deal fell through in …
Another annual State of the Kris message:
The biggest change for my family this year was moving from our little mountain cabin in Dahlonega to a house in Cumming. This puts us closer to the schools where Pebble teaches and where Bailey learns. Instead of spending two hours commuting per …
Well, we have our software "finished", and it's a full week ahead of the deadline. I expect smooth sailing for the next week or so, which will finally give me some time to get back into a normal work schedule and to focus on some longer-term goals instead of the …
For most of my adult life, I didn't really have any "hobbies". I spent most of my free time watching TV, reading books, hanging out with friends, or improving my programming skills. I didn't consider any of these activities to be hobbies, and always wondered if I was missing out …
Recently receiving a nice raise got me thinking about the relationship between work and financial compensation.
Some people claim that high salaries encourage hard work. Maybe it does for some people, but it doesn't work that way for me. My work ethic has little to do with how much I …
I committed several developer sins today. (Actually, I only committed a couple today; the others were committed in the past but came to light today.)
First, I assumed that the bug was in the other guy's code. I was sure there could be nothing wrong in my simple straightforward object-oriented …
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