Although I’ve been monkeying with computers since i was a tike, I didn’t make a career out of it until I was in my mid-40s when I graduated from college with a degree in computer information systems. One thing they didn’t teach me was basic troubleshooting, which is probably one of the most basic skills…

What a movie. I know, I’ve been alive long enough that I should have seen it decades ago. I think I did, but I was so drunk at the time that I didn’t remember any of it. As a rabid Sopranos fan, I decided it was time to sit down and watch all three. It…

I was watching a YouTube lecture the other day given by a phychiatrist who claimed to be one of only ten physicians in the country who are willing to see and prescribe for…  potential (and active) sex offenders. We all know there are people living among us who do terrible things to children and we…

Modern architecture is so boring, I hate it. When I first moved to Dallas, TX in 2004, it was my first real exposure to a big city. I loved the downtown skyline. I’m also a student of WWII and I enjoy watching old war footage. One thing that strikes me about those old films is…

In 2011, I gave Ubuntu a try. I didn’t care for the Gnome GUI but I did like KDE and XFCE. I started using Xubuntu as my daily driver and in 2013, I kissed Windows 7 goodbye for the last time as I deleted its partition and never looked back. The more I experimented and…

I arrived in Heaven just yesterday. I think it goes without saying that I was amazed, dumbfounded by everything I saw and heard on that first day. The flowers, the angels, my ancestors, everything was quite surreal. The strangest moment was when I met a man from Germany named Adolph. I was a student of…

I like the ruby and python programming languages because of their simplicity. Sometimes it feels like I’m cheating, with all those built-in functions. But there is one terrible flaw to both of these – versioning. My software is versioned, but my programming language should be stable. I shouldn’t have to juggle multiple versions of Ruby…

I’ve never understood the appeal of Apple Macbooks as a developer platform. Sure, it’s “Linux-like” in some respects with it’s BSD kernel. It’s often chosen by developers because of these similarities. As for me, I’d rather use a real Linux machine. All of my PCs and servers run some flavor of Ubuntu (I prefer KDE)….