Events

The state registered Punzun Ltd, an Illinois corporation doing business as Inner Drive Technology, on 17 February 2000. The name, however, dates from my mind wandering in Mr Collins' algebra class on 21 March 1985, so really "Punzun Ltd" as a concept will turn 41 next month.

Chicago set a new record high temperature for February 16th officially at 11:51 when the temperature at O'Hare got up to 15°C (59°F). That was also 4°C warmer than just an hour earlier, and at the moment it's 2°C above the record. By the way, 17°C is the normal temperature in Chicago on April 25th.

The record temperature for February 16th is just 14°C (58°F). Officially at O'Hare it's 6.1°C (43°F) and foggy, but the forecast predicts a high of nearly 18°C (64°F)—the normal temperature for April 28th.

I've just released version 1.0.9543 of the software running the Daily Parker. This is the 9th production release since January 13th, which is 9 production releases more than in the previous several years. In fact, there were no new releases between 29 April 2019 and 13 January 2026, because of how difficult it was to maintain the previous version. That, of course, was one of the reasons for rewriting the thing from scratch.

Yesterday, St Boniface Cemetery, Chicago:

The temperature outside my door just hit 9.0°C, the warmest it's been since January 13th. And it might get up to 14°C (58°F) on Monday, a temperature we haven't seen since November 15th.

Exactly 30 days ago the Inner Drive Journal (the software powering this blog) went live. I've released 7 new builds since then. One of the driving forces behind the re-write was frequent releases, so that part seems to have succeeded tremendously.

Matthew Yglesias takes a look at what average Americans consider to be corrupt behavior by politicians and concludes that voters "think everyone is corrupt:"

Two things this morning that made me laugh, starting with the news of one more Federal grand jury refusing to indict someone that made the OAFPOTUS mad—in this case, six someones, all sitting US legislators and former US military and intelligence officers:

I've just released v1.0.9538 of the Inner Drive Journal, the software that runs The Daily Parker. This release added two big security features that I've been working toward for years.