I'm currently reading "A Quarter Century of UNIX" by Peter Salus. It's a combination "I was there" and oral history of the genesis and adolescence of UNIX up until 1995. It describes the early days of UNIX where it was a Bell Laboratories "research project" (more like the quest of …

I just finished "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul" after a late-night reading binge before bed. That book uncorked a lot of conflicted thoughts in me. Apple used to be a company that could be counted on to push the bar further with existing …

I'm almost done with the book "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul". It's a painful read, not because the writing is bad, but because you can see how a company like Apple has ossified over the years. I wrote about this in a previous …

Just cleaned up some of the code that generates this blog. I'm using Pelican so one of the pain-points is creating a template for each new post. I have a script called "newpost.py" that does this. I also post a monthly check-in for my "Designing a Well Lived Life …

Checking in for May 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): Most of my efforts for health are revolving around my treatments. I've done the occasional mowing and playing drums for …