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I’ve held more than a few positions in my career and I feel that I’ve collected several bits of things should never do.  Here are a few: A manager should balance the needs of the company with the needs of the employee.  Never ask an employee to work an extra day, and thus have the [...]

Yesterday I had a hankering to watch Rocky IV.  (I don’t know either.  Perhaps it was all the Survivor Pandora played for me in the morning.)  I had always wanted to try out Amazon’s Instant Video system but wasn’t sure if it would work with Linux since other offerings seem to be pro-DRM and less [...]

Ever thought “hey, I’d like to use this with Tor“?  Well, I’m giving someone in the Fedora community the opportunity to review a package that will allow  you to do just that.  Torsocks provides a “usewithtor” functionality to allow many network-utilizing programs to go over the Tor network instead of exposing your doings t […]

Last winter we received a fair amount of snow in December and January.  This year has been different.  Not quite warm but higher-than-normal seasonal temperatures have plagued us.  And without an Arctic blast of cold air the precipitation has all … Continue reading →

Maphead, written by Ken Jennings, is a great book exploring the world of geography and maps.  Written to help bring other mapheads out of their closet, the book explores people who love maps, cartography, and the world around them. I … Continue reading →

I recently finished reading what has got to be one of the greatest books on physics.  Not to be confused with a text book, For the Love of Physics: from the end of the rainbow to the edge of time– … Continue reading →