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They really miss me!

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This morning I was plagued by repeated robocalls in the car on the way to work. I just kept rejecting them (they were interrupting my audiobook!) Not until I arrived did I see the voicemails I got. It turns out these calls were not robocalls – they were my old job trying to get a … Read more

Taking Notes

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I’ve taken a keen interest in note-taking in general and recently I’ve been obsessed with how other people do it. I’ve always taken a keen interest in note-taking in general, and recently I’ve been obsessed with how other people do it. There tends to be a push toward avoiding information silos while at the same … Read more

Ohio Linuxfest 2019 – Nov 02 2019, Columbus, Ohio

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My Schedule 09:00 How Will You Steer Your Open Source Career? Keynote Rikii Endsley 11:00 Delta Ansible: Keeping up With Changes and Deprecations Andrew Cziryak The guy next to me is SNORING! 13:00 Modern Puppet Session Steven Pritchard I walked out of the puppet talk. It was way over my head and things just weren’t … Read more

Chuck 5.0

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Today I am 50. This is one of those big birthdays. Being a technical-minded person and realizing there have been a lot of changes in the past year, I decided I needed to document these changes in a proper changelog: Notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. The format is based … Read more

The Century Mark

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Yesterday morning I achieved the century mark in weight loss. After stalling at 90-something pounds down since the beginning of the year, yesterday I officially lost 100 pounds! I said that when I saw 234 on the scale I would take a picture and post in on Facebook and make a big deal out of … Read more

FretMaster Beta

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In 1998 I wrote the only piece of software I had intended other people to see. I wrote it in Visual Basic 4. It’s a guitar fret board mapping program. Pick a note and a scale and click a button. It’ll show you where those notes are on the fret board. It was fun and … Read more

SELinux is the devil

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I spent two hours troubleshooting strange Apache behavior on a new VM before discovering SELinux was enforcing I always use CentOS in the cloud because it’s stable and awesome for server-grade applications (web server, webdav, samba…etc)  I use Ubuntu or a Debian derivative on the desktop because the packages are more up to date and … Read more

Non-alcoholic Stress Relief

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I have had exactly one drink in the last three months since starting my liver-healthy diet. I had an especially bad day yesterday. Not really bad in the grand scheme of things, but bad in my own head. Too many unplanned things happened in too quick succession which left me feeling under attack and over-whelmed. … Read more