yet another beard picyet another beard pic
I’ll space them out a bit now, no more daily pictures. Years ago Jon Wright (a well known bearded OS/2 programmer) told me that after you get past a week[...]
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day 4 of the beard and the Crypto museumday 4 of the beard and the Crypto museum
The day 2 picture had an NSA coffee mug in the background. I purchased it from the gift shop of the National Cryptologic museum at Ft Meade, Maryland. I highly[...]
day 3 of beard, and the gimpday 3 of beard, and the gimp
Right now I’m just starting to break new personal records for hairyness. I’ve been surprised that the GIMP isn’t as difficult to use as I had previously thought. I particularly[...]
Another beard picAnother beard pic
I’ve attached another pic, titled this one day2, which I guess means that day0 (not photographed) was one day without shaving and day-1 (also not photographed) was the last time[...]
started growing a beardstarted growing a beard
At LCA in January this year there was an auction at the end (an LCA tradition), and most people were feeling very relaxed and happy after plenty of good food[...]
quotesquotes
At http://www.infodrom.org/Infodrom/fortunes/download/infodrom-linux there are a heap of quotes from Debian people, and more than a few from me. It’s strange reading my own writing in someone else’s quote file. Some[...]
siteminder – what you expect from CAsiteminder – what you expect from CA
Recently I’ve been unfortunate enough to be the sys-admin of some systems running CA software, the specific horror in this case is Siteminder. The latest excitement was when an important[...]
the next feature for a spy moviethe next feature for a spy movie
I have noticed that motion sensors on burglar alarms don’t detect small movements. Presumably they are also less effective at detecting small objects that move (otherwise they couldn’t be used[...]
C – the suit and tie of programmingC – the suit and tie of programming
I was watching some music videos recently and was amazed by how badly dressed most performers were by today’s standards. As far as I can recall the only musician from[...]
communism and ticket “scalping”communism and ticket “scalping”
In the USSR the government fixed prices on all commodities, how desirable an item was merely determined the length of the queue not the price. Today in the same manner[...]