Why Do I Do This?
So I’m running Linux again. And there is no emoticon for how that makes me feel. I’ve made several attempts to write up an explanation for this, but in truth my thought process didn’t go much further...
View ArticleChanging Time
This weekend we set the clocks ahead an hour, and I was once again reminded how utterly bullshit this whole Daylight Savings Time is. Seriously, in this our modern, global society, we should all be...
View ArticleAlright, Already!
My recent move back to Linux has resulted in several of my friends inundating me with questions. Apparently, this decision of mine is scandalous and any other choice I made would have been “better.” In...
View ArticleIt’s a Sickness, Really
One of the things I should have expected, once I got Ubuntu working, was that I’d get sucked back into an all-too-familiar pattern. It goes like this… “Time to get Emacs on this bitch.” “You know, I...
View ArticleNameGen 0.1 Released
I’ve written a random name generator for Unix-like systems (tested on Ubuntu 13.10 and Mac OS 10.7.5). You can get it here. I’m only distributing source tarballs for the moment, but something like this...
View ArticleLet That Be A Lesson To You, Son: Never Try
So this morning I decided to give Gnome Desktop a try, having decided that Ubuntu’s Unity is…I don’t know, not shiny enough? And, predictably enough, something got so well and truly horked during the...
View ArticleWherein I Jinx Myself
Yesterday morning I decided to bite the bullet and do an in-place upgrade from Ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04. Given how successful I tend to be at that sort of thing, I fully expected my laptop to shit itself...
View ArticleAmong Other Things
So, the last week or two have been…interesting. Work progresses on The Project. Shawn and I have been working our asses off—to the best of our abilities—and things seem to be moving forward....
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