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Since its inception, this blog has run on WordPress. I hosted it with a hosting provider, who gave me a dedicated VM on which I installed WordPress and the assorted tools, themes, and plugins to make it run how I wanted …
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I’m finally back after several years of writing in just about any place other than my lovely blog. A lot has happened in the interim since the last time I wrote anything here. Some of it was exciting, and some of it was …
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I took my daughter and stepson to see one of my favorite authors a couple of days ago. Neil Gaiman also happens to be one of their favorite authors, having penned a favorite story, Coraline, they both share a love for. …
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It probably stems from how long I have been using computers, and what my first computer interfaces looked like, but I have been enamored of command line interfaces since, well, forever. There have been the occasional …
[ Everything else ] 12 min read
“In my heart, I will always be the girl without the metal, and you will always be the boy with all his bits.” – Quote from an old friend of mine, on our respective surgical experiences It’s a very surreal thing to know …
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I’m currently working on multiple writing projects, as well as looking forward to beginning a new, different gig tomorrow, so my office is a bit messy. With all the books and studies seeming to point toward messy, …
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Public Service Announcement of the day: I’ve long believed that the Trunk Monkey security system should be available in a network monkey form. Many layer‑8 problems could be solved before the need for escalation to the …
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I access various Unix and Unix-like systems all the time. In most cases I don’t ever use any of the GUI tools or applications they may provide. I’ve been using Linux since before Slackware was even a distribution, and …
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So, you want to be a writer? Writing is a lonely, dirty, self-deprecating affair. And that’s if you’re good at it. Robert Heinlein said that “writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private …
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I have decided to take a quick break from my more business-oriented writing of late to focus on something that people seem to have an interest in: how I have my computer set up and configured. This post will necessarily …