BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Leave it to Dorothea to help me put the finger on my period of discontent. Today she writes: I find I have nothing in particular to blog today, at least nothing that I really care (or dare) to talk about. She then eloquently non-blogs about what she can’t or won’t blog […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wrote a little quip for O’Reilly Network’s ONLamp.com titled Today’s Unix: New all over again. The article is related to the release of my newest effort for O’Reilly, Unix Power Tools, 3rd edition.
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dorothea, while writing about gaming characters, wrote the following today: Do not wave a character sheet around yelling “But my character’s a sweet, easy-going chap!” when he’s just instigated an unnecessary catfight with the rest of the group. That dog so won’t hunt. Your character has to take responsibility for his/her actions […]
It’s not often that one can room with an ex-husband and manage to remain best friends. It just goes to show that though I may be firey, difficult, opinionated and hard to live with online, I’m a soft, loveable, easy going charmer offline. Well, no, not really, but it was a nice try. Anyway, the […]
Today is my favorite holiday, Halloween. Forget reality for a day and be an astronaut if you want, against a backdrop of crisp fall weather, spiced apple cider, colorful leaves, and flickering lights stuffed into a gourd. A few years ago we spent Halloween at Salem, and that was interesting — a bit of hokey […]