Good evening folks! Hope your preceding days, weeks, and months have been safe and enjoyable. It's been a crazy couple of weeks if you live in the Western hemisphere. Moving in tandem with the rest of the change, I've decided to officially (and permanantly) move my blog from WordPress to…
Hi folks. How have you been? I ask you to come use this site because I don’t really use Facebook that much anymore. I find the platform is simultaneously constricting and too open. And it concerns me, especially when I see that other platforms like Google more or less…
I have issues explaining this to people. Sometimes I delve into industry buzzwords. For example, I’m in dev-sec-ops, I’m in computer networking or security, or just that I keep the site from going down. Sometimes this explains the question and we move onto another topic. But not always.…
I can’t legally admit that I was ever hacked. But sometimes people close to me get it. When I can’t respond in time, bad things happen. True, with great sysadmin powers come great responsibility. But in another truth, the rivers of data that connect us together are leakier…
I’m sure you’ve all had it. This year has been a bastard to all of us. Some of us have lost friends, jobs, loved ones, homes, futures. We’ve all had to put our lives on hold, watching the fishbowl of the world outside. Seeing empty TV spectacles…
Hi folks. I won’t take too much of your time. But I wrote a poem and now you can read it. In Carcosa; Lamentia & Dolores swept calmly to the sea; The witches laughed and played their games In subtle harmony While black stars rose and islands sank Demurely neath…
So, as you may know about me, I’ve got a strong interest in open-source software. It’s fun: pull something for free, break it, get a new one. Free as in free beer appeals to my senses. And the horror of spending an extra hundred on a Windows license…
I realized that this professional blog has begun to veer into personal stuff. I don’t really want this. Sure, we have tragedies in our lives. But if we are going to stay above the mire, we have to keep walking. So I’m going to discuss some of my…