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I made a perl

(Note: I’m back on Twitter at @shebang_the_cat, so please re-add me if we were contacts before, or if you think I’m worth listening to. The bonus on this new name is that the underscores hopefully mean the username is no longer perverted-sounding to certain immature people I know.) I did some coding this week at [...]

Is tech blogging for me?

I still mourn the loss of a blog I once had. It was a wiki for one that I had running on my work computer at my last full-time job. I wrote everything I was doing, and what I’d done to fix things, and reminders about stuff I should do someday but never got the [...]

What do you name your servers?

I was watching a rerun of jPod last week, and in one scene some of the characters are walking through their server room at work. The cabinets are labeled with such names as “Mr. Belvedere”, “Punky”, “Webster”, “Gopher” and “Willis” (there were more, but I can’t remember any thank you, Tivo), all of them referring [...]