Rambled during September 2008

A lot of you have been asking when the new office pictures will be online. Unfortunately there’s been a little snag in the planning process that is going to cause a delay of about another week which puts the entire overhaul a month off schedule since the original plan.

My dealer doesn’t have all the new equipment ready yet but did get me the imporant stuff I need to start, namely the new monitors. However, the various three and five meter DVI cables that were sent to them were white instead of black so we’re waiting for the arrival of the correct black cables. Without the cables there’s not much point in clearing out the office. The RAID backplanes have also not arrived yet but adding new workstations is not a requirement for starting this overhaul so that can wait. The cables are definitely more important.

In the meantime the house is turning into a warehouse of hardware with lots of new stuff still in the boxes. Below is a shot showing the four boxes with the HP LP2475w 24″ S-IPS monitors, two Eizo FlexScan S2431WE-BK (black 24″ screens with the EZ-UP base), and four boxes with Ergotron LX monitor arms. The other stuff in the middle there are unassembled bookshelves (I agree, much less interesting than the hardware).

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. For the past two months I haven’t been keeping up with e-mail responses, haven’t blogged about anything at all, and heard that people assume that I had vanished into thin air or perhaps was obducted by evil aliens (or competitors in my field, ha!).

Alas, Sallie and I were on vacation and spending about as little time with computers as possible and instead spent most of the time going to both a lot of favorite and new restaurants (I’ll save you the review of the spectacularly weird Bacon-Infused Caramel Sauce at Town Hall in San Francisco), taking pictures, etc. You can see most of the picks on my Flickr page where there are several new sets including a lot of pictures from our trip to Chicago, IL and Occidental, CA and some more from Tiburon, CA, and a few new ones from San Francisco, CA, and Santa Cruz where we hung out with friends and their cats as well as a set from Alcatraz.

Now that I’m back there’s a lot of work to be done and in the midst of all that there will be some major overhaul of The Home Office. I’m not going to spoil any surprises with details on what will change except to say that one of the main changes will be that most of the screens are going to be replaced, for other details you will just have to keep an eye on this site over the next weeks. Once I’m done I hope to put up new images and maybe a separate page with pictures of the office going from empty to its new configuration and archiving the current page to show the previous evolutionary stage of the office.