“I Paint” by Thijme Termaat
This is just amazing. A facinating merger of painted art, story-telling, and animation. You’re welcome :) The artist behind this awesome display is Thijme Termaat (pronounced ‘tie-muh’ ‘tir-maat’). If...
View ArticleAre your feelings as important as those of others around you? Should they be?
Ever feel like you’re in a position to make a decision where there can be no reasonably useful or positive outcome? Ever feel like the the choice in front of you will simply lead to misery (or at very...
View ArticlePeople Aren’t Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say
It’s occurred to me fairly often of the past several years that the reason why democracy doesn’t achieve ideal results is simply because most voters are ill-informed about the real issues facing the...
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Experiences and Recorded History
It is amazing to me how far we have come technologically, yet we are still so far away from being able to record experiences with any degree of accuracy. It is the experiences that we have that make...
View ArticleEnjoy The Silence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTOLMbKjLeY ♫ Words like violence break the silence ♫ ♫ Come crashing in into my little world ♫ ♫ Painful to me, pierce right through me ♫ ♫ Can’t you understand, oh my...
View ArticlePeople Getting Along
It always surprises me when people share a bit more about themselves than they realize, especially those who think themselves fairly reserved, quiet, or “better than thou”. I find this occurs when a...
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Flowers still hanging in there
To my surprise the flowers we planted in early spring are still hanging in there! The last rainfall really helped a lot; it was starting to get pretty dry at one point earlier in the year. Hopefully...
View ArticleMichio Kaku on the efficiency of gasoline
Michio Kaku explains why gasoline, while still a terrible pollutant, is still a highly efficient energy resource. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PewMgx753G0
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Adventures with Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint 14 (Nadia)
Over the last week I’ve been playing around with Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) and Linux Mint 14 (Nadia). Although I can appreciate Linux Mint (it is indeed very elegant), I think I will be...
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Team Meetings at the Workplace
I’ve been to many team meetings (or “all hands”) that have, in the end, provided no real value to the team in attendance. It is very possible (and likely quite common) that most meetings are actually...
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Why You Shouldn’t be Sharing “Live” Documents by E-mail
If you and your team, in 2013, are still sharing Microsoft Office (Word, Excel) documents via internal corporate e-mail, I’ve got news for you. You’re doing it wrong. “Live documents” are documents...
View ArticleNosaj Thing “Eclipse/Blue”
This is modern art – an awesome merger of song, dance, and programming :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_woNBiIyOKI
View ArticleBookmark Update!
My weekly digest of sites, blogs, tools and other URLs which I’ve recently bookmarked for personal reference. The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer | Software by Rob Business...
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Please join us in welcoming the newest member of our family!
On January 28th, at around 5am EST, the newest member of our family was born. Weighing in at around 6lbs 3oz, and just under 20 inches in length; our daughter, Phoebe Isabelle Lopez, arrived into our...
View ArticleJust Another Perl Hacker
Sometimes writing small snippets of code can be meditative. The other day, I realized that, even though I happen to be, among other things, Just Another Perl Hacker, I never bothered to write my own...
View ArticleWhat is the “Cloud”?
The “Cloud” Will Save Us! You hear about it every day, “cloud services”, “cloud storage”, “the cloud as a platform”. But what is the “cloud” really? The definition of what the “cloud” is, is different...
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Installing CentOS 6.4 from a Net Install Image on a Virtual Host
An Opportunity To Play Around with CentOS One of the personal projects that I’ve always had itching away at the back of my mind was the urge to revamp my home network monitoring and security. One of...
View ArticleMaybe Big Brother Isn’t As Bad as You Think..
Cross-post from LinkedIn, in response to Maybe Big Brother Isn’t As Bad as You Think: “This is a future Orwell could not have predicted. And Big Brother may turn out to be a pretty nice guy.” I...
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My Fun With Necrolinguaphilia
Last night I attended a talk given by Dr. Damian Conway (of Perl Best Practices fame) titled “Fun With Dead Languages“. Although this is a talk that Damian had given previously, it is the first time...
View ArticleEvery Minute is a Reflection of Life
“Time passes so quickly. Minutes are like seconds. Hours fly by in a wink. Responsibilities are inherited, expanded. Your self-image pushes you forward to embrace the challenge. Thinking becomes a...
View ArticleBeautiful people do not just happen.
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a...
View ArticleStephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson at Montclair Kimberley Academy...
Cross-post from LinkedIn, in response to Stephen Hawking: Black Holes May Not Have ‘Event Horizons’ After All: So relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXh9RQCvxmg Stephen Colbert interviews Dr....
View ArticleBad advice on “free advice”
Cross-post from LinkedIn, in response to How Seeking ‘Free’ Works Against Our Career Success: I cannot completely agree here. There are many who offer free advice that also happens to be good advice....
View ArticleWhy is my daughter strong? I didn’t clip her wings: Ziauddin Yousafzai at...
Related article: Why is my daughter strong? I didn’t clip her wings: Ziauddin Yousafzai at TED2014 From the article: In October 2012, a Taliban-affiliated gunman shot Ziauddin Yousafzai’s daughter...
View ArticleManaging Your SMTP Relay With Postfix – Correctly Rejecting Mail for...
I manage a few personal mail relays that I use for relaying my own mail and for experimentation purposes (mail logs are a great source of unique and continuously flowing data that can you use to try...
View ArticleExamples of recursion, in Perl, Ruby, and Bash
This article is in response to the following question posted in the Perl community group on LinkedIn: I’m new to PERL and trying to understand recursive subroutines. Can someone please explain with an...
View ArticleAnsible Playbooks – Externalization and Deduplication
Externalization and Deduplication Developers who understand the concepts of modularity and deduplication should immediately recognize the power behind being able to include settings and commands from...
View ArticleExpressing Your Authority May Be Working Against You
It doesn’t matter whether you are a senior engineer, a team lead, or an IT manager – eventually you will encounter the situation. A meeting or discussion that becomes slightly more animated than...
View ArticleHow to Backup an Ubuntu Desktop (12.04, 14.04)
Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/9135/how-to-backup-settings-and-list-of-installed-packages Warning: Read about caveats in the link above before use #——————————————————- ## The backup script dpkg...
View Articlerbenv and multiple local ruby version installs (like perlbrew)
When I was using perl as my primary development language, I had a platform of tools in place to make my perl development fun and productive. This included tools like Perl::Dancer, DBIx::Class, cpanm,...
View ArticleArrested DevOps: Operationalizing Open Source With Michael Hedgpeth And Doug...
Arrested DevOps: Operationalizing Open Source With Michael Hedgpeth And Doug Ireton – ADO70 by How to Instructional Podcast on the Tech Podcast Network https://player.fm/1gEMFZ #nowplaying
View ArticleSoft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual – A Review [Audiobook]
I’m almost through the book Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual. I’m listening to the audio-book. I like it, it’s pretty good. Along with the benefit of having the author, John Sonmez...
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Our Galaxy is a Seed that Will Eventually Grow into it’s Own Universe
The universe is accelerating away from the center of the Big Bang. The universe is cooling down, because galaxies are moving away from each other. The number of stars in the sky will diminish over...
View ArticleChecking OS Version Across Multiple Hosts with Ansible
Often when you are maintaining a large number of servers, it is useful to be able to query those systems all at once to find out information like IP address, configured hostnames, and even the OS...
View ArticleTiny linux disk usage reporting script – dux.bash
I decided to write a very small disk usage reporting script that provides some extra information than does just using ‘du‘ directly. The script of course uses du, among other command line tools and...
View ArticleThe Evolution of AI: Quantum Intelligence, And What It Means For Humanity
Warning, the following might be considered an exercise in mental, <ahem>.. recreation. Still with all the talk these days around artificial intelligence, the speed at which the field of AI...
View ArticleA note on Leadership and Millennials in the Workplace
People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe” ― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action “There are only...
View ArticleDavid Meltzer on Impact Theory
The author of Connected to Goodness shares why giving is worth much more than receiving on this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu. QUOTES: “You might as well do as many good deeds as you can....
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In Scientific Writing, our Earth’s name is Earth, and our moon is the Moon.
From What are the names of the earth, moon, sun, and solar system? The name of our planet is the Earth. The name of our moon is the Moon. The name of our solar system is the Solar System. Notice that I...
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