I grew up playing videogames. I remember begging my parents incessantly for an Atari when I was six years old. I was too young to know that there were better systems available, and I had no idea that the machine...
Read the post →I have been working my way through Pratchett’s Discworld series for quite a few years now. I’ve stuck pretty closely to the Discworld Reading Order diagram. It didn’t take me much more than a year to plow through all the...
Read the post →Way back in July, I assembled a new computer to replace my old primary workstation, which was my laptop. I decided that the easiest and most economical thing to do was to transplant my laptop’s Crucial M4 solid-state drive into...
Read the post →I’m always on the lookout for neat, new ideas. Back in November, I saw a neat idea over at Reddit: using Zsh hooks to trigger a notification when a command takes a long time to complete. In the comments there,...
Read the post →I was hoping to avoid writing another post like this again this year. While I was writing the last one, I decided that it would be a much better idea to write up a short review each time I finish...
Read the post →Earlier in the year, I posted a short list of resolutions for the year ahead. Most of them were really just tasks or projects that I was hoping to work on this year. The year is now rapidly winding down,...
Read the post →I have dozens of files from various corners of the Internet in my ~/.emacs.d/lisp/ directory. I’ve tried to keep the important ones up to date, but I’ve never done a very good job of it. The ones that are old...
Read the post →Quite a bit has happened since I reported in September. Seafile 2.0 was released, and that release just happened to coincide with a hardware failure. That was actually pretty convenient for me, since I wanted to rebuild my libraries with...
Read the post →Buying gifts is hard work. It is that time of year again, and I’m working hard trying to figure out exactly what to buy for everyone. I thought I might be able to help someone else out if I made...
Read the post →I’m going to be away from home for a few months, and I’ve picked up a few items to make myself a little more comfortable while I’m gone. My laptop battery was dead, so I thought it would be a...
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