Personal blogs

On stage at Radio City Music Hall, I hid The Power Broker. All 1,200+ pages of it. I clutched the paperback close, under my academic regalia. On stage, helping deliver diplomas to eager graduating students …

Previous: First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, June ’24 Welcome to the July edition of First Amend This! This publication provides an insider look at issues affecting the Idaho Department of Correction community. If you …

After I fixed the performance issue, I started looking around for some other issues to handle, and boy, did I find some. Checking the error log from Apache I found: [Fri Jul 12 15:04:01.762845 2024] …

DS099: Not very happy with this, 098 was a dud. Just couldn’t get the thing I had in my head out onto the screen and was singking more and more time into playing with lighting …

In the late eighties I lived in the East End of London and I used to rent movies from a little video shop on the A11 near Bow Road underground station. The routine – you …

Robert Birming started collecting links to interesting and inspiring blogging journeys of which most are /timeline “slash pages”. He was kind enough to include a link to my /museum page, even though technically speaking, that’s …

BLUF1 (Bottom Line Up Front) is the practice of starting a message with its vital information first. This provides the recipient with the most important information first, making the message more straightforward and more concise. …

Goodbye, Little King Handsome Theo RIP Lt. Theodopolous “Theo” Kojak, our sweet, precious, handsome Little Man, aka The Little King, 2006(?) - 2024.

As I write this, I am imagining one of those slightly cheesy voiceovers for a TV show, reminding viewers of the previous episode: “Last time on ‘BSAG Gets Nerdy About Emacs’…”. You may remember that …

In January, I was invited to GDC, the Game Developers Conference, to give a talk about Playdate. That talk — “The Playdate Story: What Was it Like to Make Handheld Video Game System Hardware?” — …

Close had for their job application on Wellfound a coding challenge. I’m slightly miffed that they ask someone to write code without even screening them first to see if they believe on the surface I’m …

Last weekend I made a trip north to visit my parents. Avanti Trains didn't fail in managing to be late both ways thanks to a combination of congestion and broken down freight trains. Sad to …

Ed Zitron does brilliant job of summarizing and providing color commentary on the the Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit? report from Goldman Sachs.I feel a little crazy every time I write one …

This summer, we're in the process of selling my family home, at the lake in central New York that I've written about and photographed for this blog many times over the years. My feelings about …

I’m mostly just typing out my feelings right now and I don’t know if this will turn into something coherent. Most of the projects I put out, and the work that I do in public, …

Our hearts are full of gratitude tonight to the hard working men and women of the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, the San Francisco Police Department, and the other law enforcement agencies of the Bay Area …

Two races in one week! Sunday morning found me with a couple hundred other runners at Nose's Point in Seaham for the Durham Coastal Half Marathon, a trail-ish half following the line of the coast …

Back in 2022 Peter Levine – whose thought blog posts are amongst my favourite reads on a regular basis – wrote the following: The left should represent the lower-income half of the population; the right …