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Over the last week I've been working on replacing imladris, the server that does most of handwaving gesture this. I first installed the ur-imladris on November 5th, 2011 from a Debian 6.0 (squeeze) iso into a KVM 0.12.5 VM. That system...
Bad things have upsides, bad things have downsides. Good things have upsides, good things have downsides. — Jerry Wise
The terror of AI has come to comedy. There are a dozen shows this year about the threat that technology poses to the way we live, laugh, and love. In this case, AI stands for Austrian Imperialism and the fight is for Switzerland's...
Nine years ago, I wrote a blog post about my ideal novel writing tool called NEO. You can read that original post here. The problem I was trying to solve was replicating the clean, crisp workflow I’ve always had in Apple’s Pages, before...
This opinion is an offshoot of the multitudinous Meta Pixel cases. LinkedIn offered its own tracking technology called the Insight Tag. Prior blog post. In this case, two healthcare entities, Covered California and Nevada Health Link,...
Something happens the moment someone shares their screen to walk through a presentation. Their face disappears. The other participants turn into an audience. The content plays out in a straight line instead of being worked through...
You shouldn’t discuss evil on a Saturday morning. Certainly not before breakfast, nor even during it. But at our kitchen table, things often turn out differently.One morning, clever Siri asks a question that sounds rather naive: “Can...
I’ve been thinking about MRR (monthly recurring revenue) versus ARR (annual) and the psychology of those two things. It’s pretty clear that businesses love the idea of recurring revenue, and given a choice between a subscription or more...
This is a Blaugust 2026 blog post. The world-wide HTML Day celebration happened this past weekend. Now in its fourth year, the organizers describe it as: HTML Day is an annual celebration of HTML. It's a day to gather IRL in places...
Cat + Gamerby Wataru NadataniGenres: Manga Pages: 168 Series: Cat + Gamer #3 Rating: Synopsis: A brand-new cat owner with no experience living with pets, quiet office worker Riko uses lessons drawn from video games to guide her in cat...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks with ABC’s Jonathan Karl on August 9, 2026.Many Democratic Party candidates emerging on what one might call the populist left are finding success in primaries across the country. But most of...
San Francisco Oracle, Vol. 1 No. 7, February 1967. In his later years Kenneth Anger often seemed to spend more time giving interviews than making films, even though he was keeping busy when out of the public eye. Most of the discussions...
HappeningsI like how Sylvia writes her weeknotes: short and succinct, with simple headings. I'm stealing her headings but I still need to learn the "short and succinct" part. Last week my wife and I spent the week with her in-laws; her...
Well it's official -- The Perfect Host, book five in my queer urban fantasy series The Mia Graves Saga, is now out! I know I say this every time, but I'm super excited for this one to get into reader's hands. It's the conclusion to the...