Hello, my name is Mr. Malley

This being an election year, I can’t help but share some political media:

Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor, Randy Pausch, died today of Pancreatic Cancer, which he has been fighting since August 2006. May he rest in peace.

Professor Pausch is most famous for his inspirational “Last Lecture” he gave at Cargegie Mellon in 2007. I highly recommend that you watch it.

For background information on this profoundly strong individual, you should read the Wall Street Journal article that brought his story to fame.

I realize stuff is currently broken. I’m working on it. Thank you for your patience.

I came across this video this morning (that was supposedly animated by Trey Parker and Matt Stone) showcasing the ideas of philosopher, writer, and speaker, Alan Watts, whom I don’t know much about other than what you see here:

For obvious reasons, this hit home with me. I’ve spent a lot of the past three to five years very ambitiously trying to build my career and my business. I’ve spent a great deal of effort working toward something. Now that I have a kid, I’ve had no choice in slowing down … enjoying the ride, I suppose.

I guess you could say I listen to the music now.

Update: I have found a much better format of this video here.

Welcome to the “new and improved” mrmalley.com. I decided to move the entire site to the popular and open source WordPress blog engine. The move was based on:

• the fact that iWeb only allows comments to be made to your blog if you upload to .Mac (a fact that I find proprietary, strange, and un-mac-like). You can now comment anything you read!
• the spam that I now receive due to robots finding my email address on the front page of my site (before I coded out the @). Live and learn, I suppose.
• my impatience. I would rather not FTP my website every time I update it. With wordpress, I can edit pages right on my server.

Now that I’ve completely bored you and you probably won’t ever come back, let me assure you that more fun will come. I will first be working on the CSS of this page - making it look a little prettier (to my taste at leaste). Then, I will start posting on school, life, etc. again.

If I feel ambitious, I might soon port over my iWeb blog posts here. We’ll just have to see how ambitious I feel.

Until my first real post, thanks for visiting!