One thing that I have heard often in practices of Mindfulness (and Buddhism) is that desire and attachment are the causes of suffering. And that all seems well and good (surely if you don't desire anything then it stands to reason that you won't suffer in wanting anything. Problem solved …
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12 Questions About My Job (from 2008)
I just noticed that I'd saved a questionnaire from 2008 about my job and computers. I think this might have come from my college as a way to help prepare students for entering the computing workforce. Back then I was working for a car company doing Perl and Java. Some …
read moreDesigning a Well Lived Life: Checking In (March)
Checking in for March for my "Designing a Well-Lived Life" blogging. This is about making small changes during the year to make larger changes.
- Writing more / designing more: I let myself get wrapped up in work-related stuff and this completely went by the wayside. By the time I'd finished up …
NFS Strangeness - Duplicate inodes / file names
I just noticed some strangeness in a NFS mounted device on my Ubuntu machine.
I have duplicity running on my machines to back up to a few Synology Diskstation RAID devices. Recently I noticed that Duplicity was complaining about an assertion error. I now realize that it was complaining about …
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