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April 2014

The Great Bar Photo Caper

I’ve been going to a bar / restaurant near my hometown since the late nineties. They serve good food in generous potions and very cheap beer. They also have an array of very old, sometimes creepy photos covering the walls...

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April 2014

My Upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 Trusy Tahr

I had a large block of free time yesterday, so I decided to make an early upgrade to my laptop to the Ubuntu 14.04 beta. I almost always wait until at least the first release candidate is available, but I...

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March 2014

zsh-dwim: I Feel Like a Genius, Belatedly

I’ve been stuck on my laptop for the last few months, and I’ve been doing my best to tolerate its old, slow, spinning hard drive. I’ve also been tweaking all sorts of settings in an attempt to make things more...

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March 2014

Casino Royale by Ian Flemming

I was at a bar with my old friend Tim back in January. It seems that if he’s not busy building awesome guitars, that he just might be reading a book. He told me that he read about half of...

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February 2014

A Couple of zbell.zsh Bug Fixes

I’ve been using zbell for over a month now, and I’m really starting to rely on it. Old habits are hard to break. I still find myself peeking at long running processes just to see if they’ve finished, but I’m...

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