I've been reading "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul", which is one of the few books I decided to pick up as a hardback. So far it's been an interesting run through the history of both Jony Ive and Tim Cook and their relationship …

I've finished round 7 of my chemo treatments. This is a pretty huge milestone as I'm over the half-way mark for my originally scheduled 12 treatment cycle. Next week I'll be having a PET scan to determine where things are and what the next actions will be. I'd be lying …

This morning I woke up thinking about shame. I've had many instances of shame throughout my life. Growing up the kids at school shamed me for not having the right clothes, the right shoes, the right musical taste, and so on. Teachers used shame t try to motivate the students …

Checking in for April for my "Designing a Well-Lived Life" blogging. This is about making small changes during the year to make larger changes.

• Focus on health (exercise, eating, stress): I've been more focused on the eating part this month since my stomach is pretty ticklish during chemo. I've not …

Tonight I overwrote my last Wordpress instance on my self-hosted box. It's the end of an era. I was able to remove PHP, MySQL, and Wordpress. That just leaves Linux as part of the LAMP stack on this machine.

It's a little bittersweet. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP / Perl …