Flexible media, or how not to insert a 5-1/4” floppy disk
In my early teens, a few of us proto-geeks would hang out in a downtown Ottawa computer shop, playing with the Osbornes and Apple ][s until an hours-older sa...
Book Review: Head First Design Patterns
Another review of an O'Reilly-ish book that I posted elsewhere, Head First Design Patterns by Freeman et al: Oh sure, we've all got the Gang-Of-Four Design P...
CRLFs in bash scripts
I occasionally run into this error when working with bash shell scripts: : bad interpreter: No such file or directory Sometimes the line begins with munged-t...
Book Review: Learning the bash Shell
I own a lot of O'Reilly books. You know, the ones with the animals on the cover. So many, that one sunny day I sat down to count: 119. I'll admit that some o...
PHP 5 configuration and the Law of Computer Frustration
I've long subscribed to the following maxim, particularly in reference to high tech: "The more frustrating the problem, the more simple the solution." I doub...
The bandwagon has left the station
Depending upon your count, this blog has launched 10 or 12 years after the first blog post. Given my innate sense for such things, blogs will likely be decla...