Un-Social Month
For the month of November I’m taking a social sabbatical. I’ll be quietly ignoring as much Facebook as possible, avoiding reTweeting anything, minimizing my Instagram life, and generally doing some...
View ArticleFacelift
You’re not in the wrong place. This is still me. It’s been at least five years since I did a major redesign of this blog, and over those years I’ve painted myself into a few design corners. I’ve been...
View ArticleSimplification
Maybe, in the waning days leading towards yet another reminder of my own steady fight against mortality I’m just getting old and losing my patience for this type of thing, but I find my effort here to...
View ArticleOn Randomly Documenting
I’m not oblivious to the fact that my audience is minuscule. I’ve been writing and posting content here for nearly seventeen years, and in that time I’ve covered more topics than I can remember. This...
View ArticleBlog-a-Day Month 2017
I may have warned readers that this was coming, but every year in December I try to write at least one blog post per day. It’s not anything official or endorsed or recognized in any way, but each year...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Words
I’m having a moral struggle and I don’t know how to resolve it. I suspect some of my readers are too. It’s the first day of December and I’m kicking off my annual blog-every-day-month, an act that is...
View ArticleMoving Day (Month)
If you haven’t been paying attention to the wholesale assault on the free internet that is happening in the budding fascist land to my south, it’s worth noting that on Thursday afternoon the cadre of...
View ArticleMoved… Phase 1
Further to my post from yesterday, I’ve spent a very large part of the last 48 hours transferring files, updating DNS records, adjusting account connection points, and otherwise making sure the bulk of...
View ArticleBreaking Up is Hard to Do
After a weekend of celebrating that I’d successfully moved my web hosting to a new (Canadian) platform, I’m back to the drawing board. Alas, there was nothing in particular wrong with the new host, but...
View ArticlePlan B: A Different Kind of Pi Day
The effort continues to enact an repatriation exit from my american-based web hosting provider. It’s a good thing the weather is so terrible. It’s in the minus 20s all this week with a minus 40ish...
View ArticleAchievement Unlocked: Server Admin Intermediate
It’s been a week of new learning experiences. As of writing this, my personal web server has been running off a Raspberry Pi 3 in my basement for a little over a week. This blog (and a couple other...
View ArticleFor the Sake of Continunity
I haven’t been writing here much. Live has intervened, got stupid-busy. No… stupid. freaking. busy. I can’t even. So here’s the recap of the last couple months (minus the juicy professional-life gossip...
View ArticleUnsaid
It seems as though I’ve gone months without a word written to this space. The odd thing, of course, is that with each passing minute posting something new becomes ever so more difficult under the...
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