The Technical Contrarian
So, case in point (since we love examples).
A couple of years ago, when I first started fiddling with Pelican, one of the first
things in the docs was 'okay, set up virtualenv and do such a thing'. My initial reaction, as an old-skool sysadmin weenie who hasn't
had to …
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Border War Prep 2016

Some of the gear that's being shipped to Czech Republic (or Czechia if you don't please) for Border War next week. I and 20-odd other tubby nerd militia follow it all next week. This will be my third time in as many years, and probably the unfittest I've been in …
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April 11 2016
I almost signed up for a medium account. A brief moment of madness before I realised that
the likes of medium accounts are also transient. Reminded, again, by my recent de-facto abandonment of G+
as a thing to publish things on. I am not a crackpot, our outlets for writing …
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February 17 2015

The weather's turning. It's one of those nice times of year when it's cold and mostly dry, but without a winter in front of us. Things are growing at home and we're seeing what pops up on our first spring in the new place.
So, on Valentine's day, I reminded …
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January 11 2015

Domestic weekend! The first week back at work was one of those stealth first-weeks-back, where the first part is relief that nothing exploded in my 3 weeks away, and the rest was EVERYTHING HAPPENING. But it's the weekend now, and Amazon has a fancy Karcher window vacuum on sale. A …
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