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)….

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