It's beyond hectic around these parts right now... it's been one of those months where you set out to work on something and get interrupted to look at something else.  And before you get very far with the interruption, something else pops up.  In programming circles it's called infinite recursion... when computers reach a certain limit of unresolved interruption, everything crashes and nothing gets done.  Right now the big push (not surprisingly) is on getting ready for Election Day... and I still have about a month's worth of software to get written.

So, you ask, why am I blogging and not writing software?

I'm waiting for about two dozen servers and application computers to finish coming back up from a Windows update that got pushed overnight, to our surprise.  If you're looking for an oxymoron, try this:  "Microsoft productivity software".  Special bonus points for triple contradiction!

Honest, we'll get back to PSIP 101 after elections are over -- assuming that nothing else intervenes and that our computers still work.  Sigh.  Some days it just doesn't pay to cross the street.

-- Jeff