Sometimes I get emotional out of the blue. Today, I am moved, in the midst of all the shit we have to deal with, and all of the atrocities and disasters on our planet, by my fellow creative souls. Here’s to those of you who create for the joy and stimulation of the process, the [...]
Category Archives: Musings
One of my first usenet posts
February 15, 2011 – 4:33 pm
Circa 1992, re: Linux 0.99pl4 and the Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POVRay).
Tracing Linux Hostname Resolution
January 2, 2011 – 11:13 pm
This post is a living document. Updates since the original publish dates are noted inline as such. Update 1/11/2011: Nearly all of this article is bunk now, as it turns out the GNU libc developers consider getent (the basis of everything below) to be a debugging tool only. As such, it does abnormal things. I [...]
Quality Control : Puppet
December 21, 2010 – 3:51 pm
Quality Control is an ongoing series of blog posts where I am moved in rare circumstances to document what is wrong with software or anything else I find significantly rough. The posts are meant to be constructive, and I hope others can see through the likely presence of frustration in my tone to get there.
We are angry because we are overly optimistic
December 20, 2010 – 10:27 am
We are angry because we are overly optimistic, insufficiently prepared for the frustrations endemic to existence. A man who screams every time he loses his keys or is turned away at an airport is evincing a touching but recklessly naive belief in a world in which keys never go astray and our travel plans are [...]