Today marks the day that I shipped off my office equipment to my former employer. Next week, I’ll be starting a new job; one where I’ll be working web development in my favorite new language, Python. Looking forward to the new challenges, as it’s been a while since I’ve done web development (last time was [...]

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JoDee and I went to get some more case fans for Lister (see the previous post). I think we both agree that we really, really miss CompUSA. No, it’s not because CompUSA had great selection (they really didn’t), or that their prices were any better (they weren’t). No, the real reason we miss CompUSA was [...]

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Gah, just found out that one of my fans appears to have gone south. Not sure when that happened, but it apparently has been lying to the motherboard, saying that it’s doing the fan thing (y’know, spinning and such) while not doing any “rotations per minute” at all. Funny enough, when I unplugged the one [...]

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Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.

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I’ll be presenting “A Brief History of UNIX” at MUG on December 13th (That’s the second Tuesday of the month, for those of you wishing to make MUG meetings a regular part of their monthly diet). There’s an awful lot of history surrounding the UNIX operating system, and my hope is to distill it to [...]

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It’s interesting seeing the different patterns of blog spam that I get between several of the blogs / podcast sites that I run. On Open Metalcast, it’s mostly the “Wow, this is informative” variety, mixed in with a bunch of cyrillic characters. On Lococast, it’s also the “Wow, this is informative”, no foreign language spam [...]

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