This article is important: Why the Trolls Will Always Win The take away is the very important point that “ignore the trolls” is the worst advice you can possibly follow. It’s like ignoring bullies in school: they simply take it as evidence that they can abuse you without repercusions, so they escalate their attacks. Personally, …
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I really don’t like having my photo taken – I don’t generally come out looking well. But I haven’t had my photo taken in years, so I really had nothing recent, and tonight I rectified this. After many frames, I finally got an image that I’m not utterly ashamed of, so here it is! The …
Urania does not care.
When I left work I noticed that there seemed to be a thunderstorm coming in. A real thunderstorm, not just light rain. We’ve been having a lot of really hot cloudless days lately, so this was quite a surprise. As I got closer and closer to home it became obvious that the storm was actually …
Just a few minutes ago I was sitting and meditating and it occurred to me: I can meditate again. I used to meditate every night before bed many years ago. I had an altar set up and each night I would light candles and incense, put on some quiet contemplative music – some of which …
Firefox is a decent web browser, but over the years I’ve really come to dislike they way it hides options and generally treats the user with disregard. The Firefox developers seem to think they know what you want better than you do yourself. Here are a few settings you can find in the about:config page …
Years ago I used to tinker around with writing New Age/Space music. Highly electronic synthesizer music. I’ve not kept up with it over the years, but this weekend I finally digitized a couple of recordings and thought I’d put them online. The titles are a bit pretetious, but I’m not going to change them after …
It’s not often that I encounter a piece of music that I adopt into my normal “programming” music, but it has now happened again. Check out the Music For Coding page for information about the latest addition: Euphoria.
Lately I’ve embarked on a project of catching up on my reading list. I’ve read a few Terry Pratchett novels, but mostly my current list consists of computer books, some old that I’ve read before, and others that are new to me. I’ve previously read Programming Pearls, The Practice of Programming, Effective C++, and More …