I'm currently enrolled in Leo Babauta's "Designing a Well Lived Life" course, and one of the things that was mentioned during the webinar was about some of our intentions for the upcoming year. These aren't resolutions per se because they're things that I intend to work on throughout the year …
read morePale Blue Dot
Last night JoDee and I watched a documentary about the Voyager Space Program called "The Farthest: Voyager in Space". It walked through the history of the program to present day: the discoveries, the photos, the science, and the troubles with the program. It's a great watch if you're even remotely …
read moreNFS 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 …
read moreScared of Search
I'd like to thank Google for making me afraid to do a search on something that I'm mildly curious about.
"Hey, we noticed you looked up SNK games. HERE'S 1500 NEWS ITEMS ABOUT UPCOMING PLAYMORE SNK RELEASES BECAUSE YOU HAVE SHOWN INTEREST! ARE YOU NOT PLEASED?"
"Hey we noticed you …
read moreFair Trade Magic
Just realized I've been bamboozled into thinking that Fair Trade is somehow a magic weapon against taking advantage of people.
So I looked up whether or not some of the Hawaiian coffee I like is fair-trade certified.
And then it hit me. It doesn't need to be Fair Trade certified …
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