Veterans Day

| November 11, 2005

I never met my grandfather. He served as an artilleryman in France in the First World War. He brought mementos home with him — some french coins, his rifle sharpshooter badge, a set of Captain’s bars, his gas mask, his helmet, and others. Most of these items hang on the wall in my home, reminders […]

“The question was, ‘How am I going to die?'”

| November 8, 2005

At the office where I work, there are large TVs situated around the open bays and tuned to CNN (but muted, fortunately) so that most us us can see what’s going on in the world. This is actually useful, professionally, since when a natural disaster occurs anywhere in the world, our customer networks are likely […]