ken-jennings.com: “The recipes aren’t going to sing Gilbert and Sullivan for you, or write a little one-act play, or have you over for cocktails. ‘Entertaining, delicious recipes’ doesn’t make sense, ergo: no comma.”

Autoblog: “Rather than wait until the new model year, the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice are getting ‘continuous changes’ such as a power door lock button and an electronically height-adjustable driver’s seat.”

This is truly extraordinary for a car marker to embrace criticism and roll out changes so quickly. Welcome to the world of weblogs and what it can do for you (other than give you a place to talk about deviled bones, of course).

Since I started a new job, I’ve been studying for something that I’ve put off for too long: a Cisco certification. Two weeks ago, I hit that milestone with a successful test for CCDA–Cisco Certified Design Associate. It was hard and forced me to focus my brain on what I could remember and what I could learn in only two months.

I’m proud of myself for making the goal. I used my fair-share of test aids, but I also spent time inside some rather large (and boring) textbooks to get there.

Next stop: CCNA

James Duncan Davidson: “At the Rails Edge in Denver today, Jim Weirich had a slide that asked what a Scary Programmer was. Making a joke, I stuck up my hand and said, ‘me’.”

I’m working on a new life. I know it sounds weird, but since I started my weblog, I’ve been evolving as a person. I’ve learned to write and speaker better. I’ve learned more about who I am emotionally and spiritually. I’ve also *learned*. In the last two and a half months, I’ve learned (and remembered) more about networks and engineering than I thought possible.

Wow.

I’m going to make content changes in houseofwarwick, the weblog. I’m going to be talking about food more than anything because talking about technology is something I do all day. I’ll post more recipes and how-to type articles because that’s what Google is telling me: people come to my site from searches about “how to do” something.

What would you readers like to see?

jwz: “Update: The VH1 showing was the same as the Sundance showing, except they omitted three more acts: Surf Punks, My Beach My Wave; The Cramps, Tear It Up; and Invisible Sex, Valium. “

jwz: “The long out-of-print Urgh! A Music War will be showing on VH1C on Mon, Oct 30 at 6pm PST (9pm EST). They have it listed as ‘2 hours’, which I hope means it’s the 124-minute edit, not the 96-minute edit that ran on IFC a few years ago.”

If anyone is able to get this tonight in digital form, email me (srk at mac dot com) and I’ll buy a copy from you.

The Dilbert Blog: “As regular readers of my blog know, I lost my voice about 18 months ago. Permanently. It’s something exotic called Spasmodic Dysphonia. Essentially a part of the brain that controls speech just shuts down in some people, usually after you strain your voice during a bout with allergies (in my case) or some other sort of normal laryngitis. It happens to people in my age bracket.”

Daring Fireball Linked List: “Excellent William Safire ‘On Language’ piece on how to start an email. I prefer the cold start, with no salutation.”

Call Me Fishmeal.: “‘W’ has taken it in the teeth for his war on Iraq, but, to be fair, let’s look at Saddam’s Hussein’s rap sheet…”