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 …

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 …

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 …

Rick and I spent last weekend at the 1DevDay Detroit conference, held at the beautiful Compuware building in Downtown Detroit. Unlike conferences like PyOhio, Pycon, or Ohio Linuxfest, the conference wasn't centered around one particular piece of technology, but was instead focused on the craft of developing software.

On Friday …

Here's a quick little ditty I wrote to the spammers at Information Week / Techweb to attempt once again to get off of their e-mail mailing lists:

Hello,

I'm not sure what I need to do in order to never ever hear from your company ever again, but apparently unsubscribing from …