Paradise ponders: rain, and strange coincidences edition...

Paradise ponders: rain, and strange coincidences edition...  It is pouring on us right now (see the radar snapshot at right).  I'm up in my barn office, and the noise of the rain hitting the steel roof over my head is deafening.

This morning I spoke for a little while with the attorney I'm using to handle a real estate transaction in Virginia.  He mentioned that he was a little familiar with Utah, as he used to come out here for vacations, especially near Moab.  So I shared a bit with him about our numerous trips there, and I mentioned that we knew the La Sal Mountains very well.  He then related his happy visits to Pack Creek Ranch, a now-defunct resort on the western slopes of the La Sals.  Debbie and I have very happy memories of that place, having stayed there several times ourselves.  It's a little bitty resort, way out of the way, exactly our sort of place precisely because it's not very popular.  And yet ... this lawyer from Virginia knew it, and had stayed there three or four times.  What a bizarre coincidence!

A step taken...

A step taken...  This morning I registered a new domain: decinum.org.  I was a bit surprised that it hadn't already been taken – my usual experience with finding domain names is that the first 1,000 or so that I try have already been snagged. :)  Further, to my amazement, 60 seconds after registering decinum.org, the DNS resolution was already working.  The first domain I ever registered (dilatush.com, back in '93) took several days to get that far.

This new registration is a first step for an open source project I'm going to start working on.  The main purpose is to actually implement the observations and ideas I've had for representing money in Java.  The vast majority of that work lies in representing high precision decimal numbers, hence the domain name.  I won't have any web site for decinum.org at first; I locked down the name mainly so I could safely use it for Java class names...