Mark Denovich

Static archive of a WordPress blog

Why I love my wife reason #327

Carl's a local watering hole, has old Trivial Pursuit cards on the table to distract you while you are waiting for your orders. This turned out to be more entertaining than it had any right to be,…

Social networking round 2

A few years ago, it was Friendster... now in the last two weeks, I've got a dozen new connections on LinkedIn and Facebook (I think/hope my friends have enough good taste to have skipped the myspace…

Blogging inhibitions

I'm not sure what is causing me to be so wary lately. Every time I think of something I'd like to post, I can think of at least one reason why I shouldn't. Can't post about work, because people from…

My highlighted AFI Top 100

Chris had a good idea for presenting his relation with the AFI Top 100, so I'll copy it: seen it, tried to see it, haven't: "Citizen Kane," 1941. "The Godfather," 1972. "Casablanca," 1942. "Raging…

I'll have the Wildebeest...

Last week before we left for Athens we decided to try a different local restaurant.  We went to On the Thames, a place appropriately enough on the Thames in Bourne End at the recently redeveloped…

Must see places in Athens...

anything with AC. It's 95F+ and full sun. Oh, and we still stupidly ignored the heat only to find the Acropolis closed due to strike.

In Athens

Flight was only marginally delayed.  Hotel is very nice and comfortable.  Two glasses of wine and some fruit brought to the room after we checked in was a nice touch.  Free internet too! We could…

Exhumed

A few months ago, Textdrive was killing my lighttpd processes daily, thereby also killing my Typo powered blog too. At the time I didn't want to move hosts, so I moved my blog to Wordpress. Exporting…

OK, now it should be better

It took me a while to figure out why my feeds were not updating.  I use Feedburner to manage my feeds.  It was not picking up any of my new posts even after trying to manually resync the feeds.  …