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February 2023
  • February 2023 Hello, everyone! Just a minor update with my life. Right now, I haven’t ... [Read more] (February 28, 2023)
January 2023
September 2022
  • Chess on 9/11 On the 21st anniversary of September 11, I look at how online discussion ... [Read more] (September 11, 2022)
  • Baseless accusations This blog is about the unfounded serious accusations being made against ... [Read more] (September 06, 2022)
  • Democracy This blog is about the importance of retaining America’s democracy. Also,... [Read more] (September 02, 2022)
August 2022
  • Round-up A round-up of various things in the second week of August, 2022. Alex ... [Read more] (August 11, 2022)
July 2022
June 2022
May 2022
  • Remembering Vangelis The legendary electronic musician Vangelis has died. I honor his memory. ... [Read more] (May 19, 2022)
  • Star Wars May the 4th be with you! Also, I go over a short chess game. May the 4th ... [Read more] (May 04, 2022)
April 2022
  • Happy Easter! Happy Easter! This blog is about my current thoughts on Chess variants, ... [Read more] (April 17, 2022)
January 2022
November 2021
October 2021
September 2021
July 2021
  • Delta surge This blog is about the Delta surge of COVID-19, and why it can be ... [Read more] (July 31, 2021)
June 2021
  • My Karen Story Now that decades have passed, I can finally tell my Karen story and its ... [Read more] (June 06, 2021)
  • Pride Month In celebration of pride month, I talk about how watching the gay community ... [Read more] (June 02, 2021)
April 2021
March 2021
January 2021
  • Insurrection What Trump did on January 6 was an insurrection attempt. Its goal was to ... [Read more] (January 16, 2021)
December 2020
  • Moving to Ubuntu This blog is about why I am changing the Linux distribution I use from ... [Read more] (December 12, 2020)
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
July 2020
June 2020
  • Grab bag This blog has an update on CHAZ, and discusses Stephen Hsu, Trump’s ... [Read more] (June 23, 2020)
  • Juneteenth In light of the George Floyd protests, I am celebrating Juneteenth for the ... [Read more] (June 19, 2020)
  • Cancel Culture One unfortunate side effect of the George Floyd protests is that the “... [Read more] (June 16, 2020)
  • COVID-19 and CHAZ I discuss COVID-19 growth in San Diego and Seattle’s “CHAZ” ... [Read more] (June 13, 2020)
  • Empathy This blog is about empathy, in light of current events. 348 words. Defund ... [Read more] (June 12, 2020)
  • Let’s keep the Police This blog is about the importance of having a police department to reduce ... [Read more] (June 10, 2020)
  • Monday grab bag I discuss Tim Cotton some more, and look at a mid-2010s article claiming ... [Read more] (June 08, 2020)
April 2020
March 2020
February 2020
  • Body for Life In this blog, I review the book Body for Life by Bill Phillips. How I ... [Read more] (February 01, 2020)
January 2020
December 2019
November 2019
  • Richard Feynman I discuss Richard Feynman and his legacy. Richard Feynman’s legacy I was ... [Read more] (November 16, 2019)
September 2019
  • September 11 Some thoughts on September 11 The technology of the time Wired magazine ... [Read more] (September 12, 2019)
August 2019
  • August round-up This blog is a collection of thoughts I have had in August of 2019. HJSON: ... [Read more] (August , 2019)
July 2019
  • July round-up Some thoughts I have posted in July of 2019. Why is there less sex? One ... [Read more] (July 27, 2019)
June 2019
May 2019
December 2018
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
  • On Résumés I discuss the format to have a résumé in, and the fonts to use. Use Word ... [Read more] (June 02, 2018)
May 2018
March 2018
January 2018
December 2017
  • Font Update I have updated the font on my websites. Caulixtla2017: Bug fix I have ... [Read more] (December 01, 2017)
October 2017
September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
  • My job search This blog is about what my most recent job search was like, and some of ... [Read more] (July 08, 2017)
May 2017
April 2017
March 2017
  • Cakewalk Sonar I have purchased Cakewalk Sonar and will slowly make the transition away ... [Read more] (March 11, 2017)
February 2017
  • Jobs It’s the economy, stupid. Let me explain. A retired pilot The year was ... [Read more] (February 23, 2017)
November 2016
October 2016
  • Trump is toast In light of yesterday’s leaked audio of Trump saying some very crude and ... [Read more] (October 08, 2016)
September 2016
August 2016
June 2016
May 2016
  • Making music This blog is about making music: Vinyl or CD, Bandcamp, and my up and ... [Read more] (May 01, 2016)
April 2016
March 2016
  • Super Tuesday After the Super Tuesday results, I have revised my presidential election ... [Read more] (March 04, 2016)
February 2016
January 2016
November 2015
  • Round up This blog is a quick round-up for November of 2015. France My prayers are ... [Read more] (November 30, 2015)
July 2015
April 2015
March 2015
February 2015
November 2014
September 2014
  • Best 80s Music January 2015 update: Edgar Froese, front man of Tangerine Dream, whose ... [Read more] (September 25, 2014)
August 2014
July 2014
June 2014
May 2014
April 2014
March 2014
January 2014
  • Returning to Fresno I lived in Fresno for three years to get my degree in Computational ... [Read more] (January 28, 2014)
  • 2014 goals This blog looks at some of my goals for 2014. Returning to the gym I got a ... [Read more] (January 01, 2014)
December 2013
November 2013
October 2013
September 2013
  • IPv6 update I have updated my servers to more fully use IPv6. To wit: All domain names ... [Read more] (September 15, 2013)
  • Mailbag Naida Gonzalez writes the following about La Tempestad: I stopped watching ... [Read more] (September 12, 2013)
  • Forum spammers Even though the forum has only been up since Sunday, and only linked to ... [Read more] (September 04, 2013)
August 2013
July 2013
June 2013
May 2013
April 2013
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
December 2012
  • 2012 wrap-up 2012 has been a good year. While I only devote one day a month to MaraDNS, ... [Read more] (December 31, 2012)
  • How many squares? There's a puzzle making the rounds on social networks where one needs to ... [Read more] (December 19, 2012)
  • Blog meta-index Today's blog is an index of previous blog entries. Every now and then, I ... [Read more] (December 01, 2012)
November 2012
October 2012
September 2012
August 2012
July 2012
June 2012
May 2012
April 2012
  • Groundhog Day Groundhog Day, a 1993 movie starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, is ... [Read more] (April 08, 2012)
  • Humility Humility is not thinking less of myself; it is thinking of myself less. To ... [Read more] (April 02, 2012)
March 2012
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
  • I miss killfiles Usenet and killfiles Once upon a time, before the world wide web, the ... [Read more] (December 22, 2011)
  • Looking at Celery In today's blog entry, I describe how to have cloud (distributed) ... [Read more] (December 20, 2011)
  • Round Up In today's blog entry, I discuss SOPA, a bug in MaraDNS, revising my web ... [Read more] (December 17, 2011)
  • Round-up Today's blog discusses giving modern CSS to IE8, my site's browser usage ... [Read more] (December 16, 2011)
  • Web page design update As I have mentioned before, I am not completely satisfied with how this ... [Read more] (December 09, 2011)
November 2011
  • The Galileo 7 There is a classic episode from the original Star Trek named The Galileo ... [Read more] (November 05, 2011)
  • Logic riddles There is a classic logic puzzle out there which is often not worded ... [Read more] (November 04, 2011)
October 2011
September 2011
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
April 2011
  • On NXDOMAIN Some feel that NXDOMAIN should not only mean "this host name does not ... [Read more] (April 23, 2011)
  • IE6 end of life Now that Microsoft has a site telling people to no longer use Internet ... [Read more] (April 17, 2011)
  • du for Windows One thing that has always annoyed me is that the version of MSYS I use (... [Read more] (April 10, 2011)
  • On Xonotic Once upon a time, there was a real cool open-source first-person-shooter ... [Read more] (April 09, 2011)
March 2011
  • Bitcoin Bitcoin may be illegal. Bitcoin is an attempt to create an alternative ... [Read more] (March 23, 2011)
  • On nuclear power For society to continue to function, we need to continue to have power. ... [Read more] (March 15, 2011)
  • Automating the blog I am in the process of updating the blog. I am still keeping the files as ... [Read more] (March 06, 2011)
February 2011
January 2011
December 2010