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When we announced, at barely 20 years of age, that we were getting were married, there were a variety of responses.

This moment marks a major milestone, not only in her academic career, but in her evolution into an independent and capable young woman.

A corrupt and cognitively-deficient President, surrounded by manipulating boot-lickers and new world order right wingers, has dragged us into war in the Middle East.

2025 was one full challenge and change for all of us.

This site has been online, in one form or another, for 25 years.

You've probably seen the checkbox in Settings for "Wake for network access", but unless you've stumbled on the secret handshake, you might not have seen the feature working.

While modern times have required some more modern infrastructure, parts of this site still depend on our home network — which is currently being dismantled in preparation for the move.

This year I got myself a new, 6 year old computer.

It is strange and exciting and more than a little emotional watching our first-born, and cherished little guy, launch out into the world.

And so it was that through luck, or divine guidance, we ended up with a house bigger than we’d imagined, with more space than we could have hoped for, in a neighborhood we didn’t think we could aspire to...

My annual work trip to Hannover became a little more fun when we made a mini-vacation out of the adjacent weekend.

Apple's "rack Mac" XServe hardware may never have been "insanely great" -- or even "kinda great" but they were interesting.

2024 has come and gone, and with it another big set of milestones for the family.

Version 4.0 of the network solves many of the issues I had maintaining and growing online capabilities.

In my son's experience with a bad English teacher I saw my own struggles with academics.