Speedtesting Your ISP, Command Line Version
I currently pay an obscene $66 for 25 MBit/sec Internet. On top of that, I had to pay a mandatory $99 equipment fee for an enormous modem, and another $99 fee for mandatory installation. Just as I was done with my first year promotional price and things “reverted” to the “regular” price of $66, I received a message. I had been underbilled, apparently, but I was lucky and they were not going to backcharge me. Continue readingWhy I Gave Up On Facebook
You probably noticed if you follow me on Facebook: I’ve barely been on there in the past two years. I’ll log on, once in a while, mostly because I remember it’s someone’s birthday and I wish them well on the channel I know they use. But for myself, I am over it. Why? There was a time when Facebook was cool. That was, of course, before I was on it. It’s when you had to have a . Continue readingWhat Auxiliary Language Should You Learn and Why
As you may know, among the many languages I speak there is Esperanto. When the average American hears the name, the reaction is probably either Huh? for those that never heard about it, or the general notion of a failed project for those who have. Also, in general, you’ll find that those that have an active opinion will say that nobody needs a made-up language as a form of communication any longer, since everybody speaks English. Continue reading2015-01-04 Houston To Denver
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In case you were on here yesterday, for a brief period (a very long hour for me) the site was down. What happened? A confluence of things: The main hard drive filled up with an ever-expanding collection of source code I split said source code onto several machines, requiring a re-installation of the SCC software I ended up with repositories incompatible with the old version of the SCCS So I had to update the operating system Which updated everything, making my configuration files pretty much unusable Here is the skinny. Continue reading2014
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L'America: Please, Read My Christmas Letter!
It’s that time of the year again! I get more nostalgic of Old World charm, missing out on Christmas Markets, panettone, Lebkuchen, and wildly flashing trees in the countryside. Time to acquaint you with the quaintest of American traditions, especially since it’s slowly dying out! The first time I saw a Christmas letter I had no idea what it was. It had all the appearance of a letter: it was a piece of paper with writing on it; the writing was of personal nature; we knew the people that had sent it to us. Continue reading