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Dear Senator Joe Manchin,

Here’s my thinking…

To the person on Redit who called the Brexit plan obviously poorly concocted.

What is yak shaving?

An attempt to add a “January Exception” to the U.S. constitution failed yesterday as GOP leaders could not muster enough votes to pass their bill.

The other day a vendor added $6k of “training” to my quote.

Politics in the U.S. is bimodal.

Copied from Facebook.

Dear friends of mine who support Trump: Your “it was Antifa” claims have all been disproven, but it did buy you an additional 12-24 hours to come up with some other cover.

I think I’ve identified the bug in PowerShell’s handling of NAPTR records.

I can’t figure out how to Add- or Remove- an NAPTR record using PowerShell’s DnsServer module.

Configuring my new Canon printer to scan to gmail was a bit tricky.

Why don’t (most) public schools teach statistics?

[NOTE: This is a rough draft of a rant.]

When I read this acting advice by Lauren Gunderson it dawned on me how powerful it would be if every tech conference speaker applied it to their talks.

Here’s an infographic from Kathryn M.

Here’s a meme that I collected from social media.

There are times when macOS mucks with DNS lookups.

I fixed bug last night.

Biden has a mandate.

Here are some of my favorite secrets about Google Docs, Google Sheets, Gmail, etc.

Did you know that buried in the U.S.

I learned that President Reagan was shot while walking home from school.

If you have zero knowledge and need to make a decision, here’s some advice.

Remember back in the old days when if you ordered anything from a company, delivery was “6 to 8 weeks”?

According to The Red Cross, there are fewer house fires in December and January.

Five things you should know about the Linux cal command.

The best financial advice I ever got: Pretend you didn’t get that raise.

You’ve tweeted that you feel “defund the police” is a terrible policy.

There are a zillion pages explaining how umask works from the user’s point of view, usually with great charts and tables explaining all the bits.

A coworker was amazed at my use of Vim, especially that I was able to navigate around files so quickly.

In response to a Facebook meme: The typical American has visited 8 states, many have never been outside of their home state, nor have been outside the country.

Replaced by https://www.yesthatblog.com/post/0068-go-off-by-one/

Thoughts about “Do The Right Thing” (no spoilers)

Go’s range operator (for x = range foo) has eliminated the most common trap where I make off-by-one errors.

Q: I heard that the Google Captchas are used to train their neural networks so they can identify things like traffic lights, etc.

You know what I want in the world?

In my previous blog post I explained a trick for setting bash env variables when you run a script.

If you want to set an env variable in bash for only 1 command, here’s some bad ways to do it:

A poem I wrote earlier this year.

“Who Builds The H-Bomb?”

I have a theory that 3 things lead to Obama’s win.

Dear Google Meets, We need to talk about your product.

Most of my company works remote, and with C-19 we are now all working remotely.

Wouldn’t it make more sense if the early primary states were picked from the battleground states of the previous election instead of being a fixed set of states?

There’s a small controversy brewing behind the scenes at conferences because of this trend to require speakers to rehearse their talk via video conference prior to the event.

Clayton Christensen died on Jan 23, 2020 at the age of 67.

I wrote this in Oct 1999.

My Martin Luther King, Jr. day tradition is to listen to the speech he made at my alma mater, Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey, on Feb 5, 1964 (nearly a quarter century before I attend).