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Writing

The Historian

Born too late in a strange land, lost with love of a people you can never claim. Living a time you can never know. Touching flyleaf of book as hand of friend. Surrounded by plain walls that can’t keep you safe, from sepia faces with delicate tints. You walk streets you resent because your prints […]

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Technology

Open Source is like sex

Open source is a lot like sex: everything works so much better when all the participants aren’t passive. I’ve worked on a variety of projects in the last twenty years that ranged in size from the second largest computer system in the world, to small applications used by only a few people. In this time I’ve learned […]

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Voting

No Kansas City Tomorrow

The Techwatch people never did respond to any of my inquiries as to where I’m supposed to be tomorrow; or about the hours and what I need to do, so I won’t be going to Kansas City after all. I tried to volunteer to drive voters to the polls tomorrow, but it was too late. […]