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NOTES IN THE MARGIN
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier thanactually thinking.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING KDENLIVE AND AUDACITY 2. Open the audio track in Audacity, and noise-reduce. Select a section of the audio where nobody’s talking. This gives you the typical background noise that you want to remove. The longer this section is, the better your overall noise reduction will be. Click“Effect”
WHY IS PORNOGRAPHY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE NOW? Pornography is an addiction, and a sickness. It is an industry that exploits people on both sides of the camera. The culture that accepts it as normal, acceptable, and even healthy behavior has its priorities turned around to an alarming degree. On a related note, the degree to which porn is marketed to me, ever day, hundreds of times a day IRC QUOTES | NOTES IN THE MARGIN IRC Quotes. February 15, 2003 rbowen. I’m pawing through old IRC logs, to see if I can find useful recipes for the book I’m working on. I say some really strange things on IRC. Here’s some samples: (Someone asking for help with Linux on a Sparc. Don’t ask me why.)ok.
THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME The ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is the most hopeful of all of the. ghosts, and the most kind. It’s the only one that has a chance of. redeeming Scrooge. Or, rather, not redeeming him, but giving him the chance to redeem himself. Past is reminding him of things he can nolonger change.
UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG
upside-down flag. March 22, 2003 rbowen. This morning I drove past a house where the flag was flying upside down. While I assume that this is in protest against the war, I did a little research on the reason, if any, for flying the flag upside down under correct flag etiquette. “The flag should never be displayed with the union down, exceptAPACHE COOKBOOK
Caveat: Versions 2.2 is the current version of Apache With any luck, by the end of the year, 2.4 will be the current version of Apache If you are running 1.3, you really should GETTING YOUR CM19A WORKING ON LINUX (RASPBERRY PI) I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi, and my main project is to get X10 stuff working again in my house. To that end, I purchased a CM19a.I’m going to chronicle the process of getting it working here, so that eventually this will be a helpful howto. A CHRISTMAS CAROL: GLOSSARY, COMMENTARY AND NOTES A Christmas Carol: Glossary, Commentary and Notes Rich BowenChristmas, 2004
JULY | 2010 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN July 6, 2010. rbowen. Several people reported today that the TSA has started filtering its employees’ access to the Internet, including access to sites featuring “controversial opinions”. Many folks were quick to denounce this as censorship, demonstrating their lack of understanding of how web filtering works.NOTES IN THE MARGIN
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier thanactually thinking.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING KDENLIVE AND AUDACITY 2. Open the audio track in Audacity, and noise-reduce. Select a section of the audio where nobody’s talking. This gives you the typical background noise that you want to remove. The longer this section is, the better your overall noise reduction will be. Click“Effect”
WHY IS PORNOGRAPHY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE NOW? Pornography is an addiction, and a sickness. It is an industry that exploits people on both sides of the camera. The culture that accepts it as normal, acceptable, and even healthy behavior has its priorities turned around to an alarming degree. On a related note, the degree to which porn is marketed to me, ever day, hundreds of times a day IRC QUOTES | NOTES IN THE MARGIN IRC Quotes. February 15, 2003 rbowen. I’m pawing through old IRC logs, to see if I can find useful recipes for the book I’m working on. I say some really strange things on IRC. Here’s some samples: (Someone asking for help with Linux on a Sparc. Don’t ask me why.)ok.
THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME The ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is the most hopeful of all of the. ghosts, and the most kind. It’s the only one that has a chance of. redeeming Scrooge. Or, rather, not redeeming him, but giving him the chance to redeem himself. Past is reminding him of things he can nolonger change.
UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG
upside-down flag. March 22, 2003 rbowen. This morning I drove past a house where the flag was flying upside down. While I assume that this is in protest against the war, I did a little research on the reason, if any, for flying the flag upside down under correct flag etiquette. “The flag should never be displayed with the union down, exceptAPACHE COOKBOOK
Caveat: Versions 2.2 is the current version of Apache With any luck, by the end of the year, 2.4 will be the current version of Apache If you are running 1.3, you really should GETTING YOUR CM19A WORKING ON LINUX (RASPBERRY PI) I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi, and my main project is to get X10 stuff working again in my house. To that end, I purchased a CM19a.I’m going to chronicle the process of getting it working here, so that eventually this will be a helpful howto. A CHRISTMAS CAROL: GLOSSARY, COMMENTARY AND NOTES A Christmas Carol: Glossary, Commentary and Notes Rich BowenChristmas, 2004
JULY | 2010 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN July 6, 2010. rbowen. Several people reported today that the TSA has started filtering its employees’ access to the Internet, including access to sites featuring “controversial opinions”. Many folks were quick to denounce this as censorship, demonstrating their lack of understanding of how web filtering works. NOVEMBER | 2006 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Night falls on Narnia. November 30, 2006. rbowen. Last night, Sarah and I finished reading the last chapter of The Last Battle. We’ve been reading the Narnia books for more than a year now, a few chapters a night, a few days a week, with other books interspersed here and there. This is the first time I’ve read all the way through theNarnia
FEBRUARY | 2014 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN February 28, 2014. rbowen. In April I will be speaking at ApacheCon North America in Denver, Colorado. I’ve had two talks accepted: Configurable Configuration is a talk about some of the new shiny configuration syntax available in Apache httpd 2.4 – stuff like the If/ElseIf/Else syntax in configuration files, the new expressionevaluation
JULY | 2010 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN July 6, 2010. rbowen. Several people reported today that the TSA has started filtering its employees’ access to the Internet, including access to sites featuring “controversial opinions”. Many folks were quick to denounce this as censorship, demonstrating their lack of understanding of how web filtering works. AUGUST | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN August 23, 2008. rbowen. Yesterday I took off work a little early and we drove up to Columbus, OH, to have dinner in Skippy ‘s back yard. Everyone else there was folks from the area – folks that he’s known for many, many years. Bob said he’d known him since he wasthree.
SEPTEMBER | 2007 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Having become a bit of a self proclaimed expert on mod_rewrite, I spend an inordinate amount of time answering mod_rewrite questions on #apache, on irc.freenode.net.. Unfortunately, much of that time is utterly wasted on something known as “Search Engine Optimization”, or SEO. SEO is an industry that has grown up around profound ignorance about how search engines work, and the basic theory JUNE | 2010 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN June 23, 2010. rbowen. We went to see Karate Kid on Monday night. It was better than the original in every way imaginable. It was way more believable. Jaden Smith is a better actor than everyone in the original put together, and was absolutely believable. And Jackie Chan was not only Jackie Chan, with all the humor and brilliant martialarts
AUGUST | 2011 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN August 28, 2011. rbowen. Z has been bugging me for some time to read Warriors: Into The Wild, and I have been avoiding it because I rather assumed it was rubbish. Or, at best, that it was aimed squarely at 10-year-old boys, and I would find it tedious and silly. It tookforever to
MAY | 2015 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name JUNE | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN June 30, 2008. rbowen. Sunday morning, at 55 mph on Nicholasville Road, the engine turned off. Just turned off. Wouldn’t turn back on. So we waited for a tow truck. Today, we have been told that the engine is dead, and needs to be replaced. There’s nothing that can be done to fix it. So, we’re now trying to decide whether to repair JUNE | 2003 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN There Is No Cat – Adventures in The Trademark Zone. I received a note from the clue-by-four folks also, asking that I refrain from using the term on my domain BoxOfClue.com which is a joke, in case anybody missed it.. At first, I was inclined to just quietly comply, but, fortunately, the page above was mentioned toNOTES IN THE MARGIN
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier thanactually thinking.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING KDENLIVE AND AUDACITY Philip: What video format can you do this with? Also, I wonder if it’s platform specific (I’m on Fedora). I record video in mp4 format, and Audacity won’t open them, but this could simply be a matter of what libraries I have loaded/enabled/whatever. WHY IS PORNOGRAPHY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE NOW? I’m increasingly alarmed with the degree to which internet porn is considered normal, acceptable, and good. In particular, people talkingabout it on irc.
UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG
This morning I drove past a house where the flag was flying upside down. While I assume that this is in protest against the war, I did a little research on the reason, if any, for flying the flag upside down under correct flag etiquette.APACHE COOKBOOK
Caveat: Versions 2.2 is the current version of Apache With any luck, by the end of the year, 2.4 will be the current version of Apache If you are running 1.3, you really should THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME I’m on a Charles Dickens mailing list. Have been for 15 years or more. A noted Dickens scholar, who performs Dickens all year, and does A Christmas Carol several dozen times a year, asked this: After 25 seasons of touring Dickens’ solo “A Christmas Carol” there is a line which while I don’t perform it still niggles at the back of mymind.
IRC QUOTES | NOTES IN THE MARGIN I’m pawing through old IRC logs, to see if I can find useful recipes for the book I’m working on. I say some really strange things onIRC.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL: GLOSSARY, COMMENTARY AND NOTES A Christmas Carol: Glossary, Commentary and Notes Rich BowenChristmas, 2004
GETTING YOUR CM19A WORKING ON LINUX (RASPBERRY PI) I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi, and my main project is to get X10 stuff working again in my house. To that end, I purchased a CM19a.I’m going to chronicle the process of getting it working here, so that eventually this will be a helpful howto. JULY | 2010 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN In Wilmore, the town where I went to first grade and college, there is a barber shop named Clay’s.Clay has cut hair there for almost sixty years. He will utter the ancient incantation, “blocked or tapered in the back?”, he’ll will listen politely while you tell him what kind of hair cut you want, and then he’ll give you the same haircut that he’s given every man who’s come intoNOTES IN THE MARGIN
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier thanactually thinking.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING KDENLIVE AND AUDACITY Philip: What video format can you do this with? Also, I wonder if it’s platform specific (I’m on Fedora). I record video in mp4 format, and Audacity won’t open them, but this could simply be a matter of what libraries I have loaded/enabled/whatever. WHY IS PORNOGRAPHY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE NOW? I’m increasingly alarmed with the degree to which internet porn is considered normal, acceptable, and good. In particular, people talkingabout it on irc.
UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG
This morning I drove past a house where the flag was flying upside down. While I assume that this is in protest against the war, I did a little research on the reason, if any, for flying the flag upside down under correct flag etiquette.APACHE COOKBOOK
Caveat: Versions 2.2 is the current version of Apache With any luck, by the end of the year, 2.4 will be the current version of Apache If you are running 1.3, you really should THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME I’m on a Charles Dickens mailing list. Have been for 15 years or more. A noted Dickens scholar, who performs Dickens all year, and does A Christmas Carol several dozen times a year, asked this: After 25 seasons of touring Dickens’ solo “A Christmas Carol” there is a line which while I don’t perform it still niggles at the back of mymind.
IRC QUOTES | NOTES IN THE MARGIN I’m pawing through old IRC logs, to see if I can find useful recipes for the book I’m working on. I say some really strange things onIRC.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL: GLOSSARY, COMMENTARY AND NOTES A Christmas Carol: Glossary, Commentary and Notes Rich BowenChristmas, 2004
GETTING YOUR CM19A WORKING ON LINUX (RASPBERRY PI) I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi, and my main project is to get X10 stuff working again in my house. To that end, I purchased a CM19a.I’m going to chronicle the process of getting it working here, so that eventually this will be a helpful howto. JULY | 2010 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN In Wilmore, the town where I went to first grade and college, there is a barber shop named Clay’s.Clay has cut hair there for almost sixty years. He will utter the ancient incantation, “blocked or tapered in the back?”, he’ll will listen politely while you tell him what kind of hair cut you want, and then he’ll give you the same haircut that he’s given every man who’s come into FEBRUARY | 2014 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN In April I will be speaking at ApacheCon North America in Denver, Colorado. I’ve had two talks accepted: Configurable Configuration is a talk about some of the new shiny configuration syntax available in Apache httpd 2.4 – stuff like the If/ElseIf/Else syntax in configuration files, the new expression evaluation engine, and mod_macro for scriptable configuration blocks, for starters. JUNE | 2010 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN We went to see Karate Kid on Monday night. It was better than the original in every way imaginable. It was way more believable. Jaden Smith is a better actor than everyone in the original put together, and was absolutely believable. JULY | 2010 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN In Wilmore, the town where I went to first grade and college, there is a barber shop named Clay’s.Clay has cut hair there for almost sixty years. He will utter the ancient incantation, “blocked or tapered in the back?”, he’ll will listen politely while you tell him what kind of hair cut you want, and then he’ll give you the same haircut that he’s given every man who’s come into SEPTEMBER | 2007 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Having become a bit of a self proclaimed expert on mod_rewrite, I spend an inordinate amount of time answering mod_rewrite questions on #apache, on irc.freenode.net.. Unfortunately, much of that time is utterly wasted on something known as “Search Engine Optimization”, or SEO. SEO is an industry that has grown up around profound ignorance about how search engines work, and the basic theory NOVEMBER | 2006 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Last night, Sarah and I finished reading the last chapter of The Last Battle. We’ve been reading the Narnia books for more than a year now, a few chapters a night, a few days a JUNE | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Looks like Firefox 3 was the motivation I needed to switch entirely to Safari. The thing that pushed me over the edge was the “open all intabs” feature.
MAY | 2015 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name AUGUST | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN I saw Yoav’s blog entry on Tidy and for a brief moment, in the first paragraph, thought that there was actually a phptidy utility. Alas, it was not to be. Perl has had perltidy for some time, and, as I understand, it’s a pretty hard thing to do. But I keep hoping that someone will do the same thing for PHP. Meanwhile, fortunately, php syntax is enough like perl that I can use perltidy to AUGUST | 2011 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Z has been bugging me for some time to read Warriors: Into The Wild, and I have been avoiding it because I rather assumed it was rubbish.Or, at best, that it was aimed squarely at 10-year-old boys, and I would find it tedious and silly. JUNE | 2003 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN There Is No Cat – Adventures in The Trademark Zone. I received a note from the clue-by-four folks also, asking that I refrain from using the term on my domain BoxOfClue.com which is a joke, in case anybody missed it.. At first, I was inclined to just quietly comply, but, fortunately, the page above was mentioned toNOTES IN THE MARGIN
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier thanactually thinking.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING KDENLIVE AND AUDACITY 2. Open the audio track in Audacity, and noise-reduce. Select a section of the audio where nobody’s talking. This gives you the typical background noise that you want to remove. The longer this section is, the better your overall noise reduction will be. Click“Effect”
WHY IS PORNOGRAPHY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE NOW? Pornography is an addiction, and a sickness. It is an industry that exploits people on both sides of the camera. The culture that accepts it as normal, acceptable, and even healthy behavior has its priorities turned around to an alarming degree. On a related note, the degree to which porn is marketed to me, ever day, hundreds of times a day THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME The ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is the most hopeful of all of the. ghosts, and the most kind. It’s the only one that has a chance of. redeeming Scrooge. Or, rather, not redeeming him, but giving him the chance to redeem himself. Past is reminding him of things he can nolonger change.
IRC QUOTES | NOTES IN THE MARGIN IRC Quotes. February 15, 2003 rbowen. I’m pawing through old IRC logs, to see if I can find useful recipes for the book I’m working on. I say some really strange things on IRC. Here’s some samples: (Someone asking for help with Linux on a Sparc. Don’t ask me why.)ok.
UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG
upside-down flag. March 22, 2003 rbowen. This morning I drove past a house where the flag was flying upside down. While I assume that this is in protest against the war, I did a little research on the reason, if any, for flying the flag upside down under correct flag etiquette. “The flag should never be displayed with the union down, exceptAPACHE COOKBOOK
Caveat: Versions 2.2 is the current version of Apache With any luck, by the end of the year, 2.4 will be the current version of Apache If you are running 1.3, you really should GETTING YOUR CM19A WORKING ON LINUX (RASPBERRY PI) I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi, and my main project is to get X10 stuff working again in my house. To that end, I purchased a CM19a.I’m going to chronicle the process of getting it working here, so that eventually this will be a helpful howto.COFFEE SMELLS
Coffee smells. February 27, 2004 rbowen. Why is it that, some mornings, coffee smells like the most wonderful thing in the world, and some mornings it smells like eau de skunk? I swear, this morning the coffee smelled like a skunk had sprayed, and then died, in my kitchen. But it was exactly the same coffee (Tanzania peaberry mmmmm)that I
AUGUST | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN August 23, 2008. rbowen. Yesterday I took off work a little early and we drove up to Columbus, OH, to have dinner in Skippy ‘s back yard. Everyone else there was folks from the area – folks that he’s known for many, many years. Bob said he’d known him since he wasthree.
NOTES IN THE MARGIN
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier thanactually thinking.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING KDENLIVE AND AUDACITY 2. Open the audio track in Audacity, and noise-reduce. Select a section of the audio where nobody’s talking. This gives you the typical background noise that you want to remove. The longer this section is, the better your overall noise reduction will be. Click“Effect”
WHY IS PORNOGRAPHY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE NOW? Pornography is an addiction, and a sickness. It is an industry that exploits people on both sides of the camera. The culture that accepts it as normal, acceptable, and even healthy behavior has its priorities turned around to an alarming degree. On a related note, the degree to which porn is marketed to me, ever day, hundreds of times a day THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME The ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is the most hopeful of all of the. ghosts, and the most kind. It’s the only one that has a chance of. redeeming Scrooge. Or, rather, not redeeming him, but giving him the chance to redeem himself. Past is reminding him of things he can nolonger change.
IRC QUOTES | NOTES IN THE MARGIN IRC Quotes. February 15, 2003 rbowen. I’m pawing through old IRC logs, to see if I can find useful recipes for the book I’m working on. I say some really strange things on IRC. Here’s some samples: (Someone asking for help with Linux on a Sparc. Don’t ask me why.)ok.
UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG
upside-down flag. March 22, 2003 rbowen. This morning I drove past a house where the flag was flying upside down. While I assume that this is in protest against the war, I did a little research on the reason, if any, for flying the flag upside down under correct flag etiquette. “The flag should never be displayed with the union down, exceptAPACHE COOKBOOK
Caveat: Versions 2.2 is the current version of Apache With any luck, by the end of the year, 2.4 will be the current version of Apache If you are running 1.3, you really should GETTING YOUR CM19A WORKING ON LINUX (RASPBERRY PI) I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi, and my main project is to get X10 stuff working again in my house. To that end, I purchased a CM19a.I’m going to chronicle the process of getting it working here, so that eventually this will be a helpful howto.COFFEE SMELLS
Coffee smells. February 27, 2004 rbowen. Why is it that, some mornings, coffee smells like the most wonderful thing in the world, and some mornings it smells like eau de skunk? I swear, this morning the coffee smelled like a skunk had sprayed, and then died, in my kitchen. But it was exactly the same coffee (Tanzania peaberry mmmmm)that I
AUGUST | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN August 23, 2008. rbowen. Yesterday I took off work a little early and we drove up to Columbus, OH, to have dinner in Skippy ‘s back yard. Everyone else there was folks from the area – folks that he’s known for many, many years. Bob said he’d known him since he wasthree.
THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME The ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is the most hopeful of all of the. ghosts, and the most kind. It’s the only one that has a chance of. redeeming Scrooge. Or, rather, not redeeming him, but giving him the chance to redeem himself. Past is reminding him of things he can nolonger change.
COFFEE SMELLS
Coffee smells. February 27, 2004 rbowen. Why is it that, some mornings, coffee smells like the most wonderful thing in the world, and some mornings it smells like eau de skunk? I swear, this morning the coffee smelled like a skunk had sprayed, and then died, in my kitchen. But it was exactly the same coffee (Tanzania peaberry mmmmm)that I
REFERENCES TO ALCOHOL IN THE BIBLE Transfer interrupted! e streets of the city, as their lives ebb away in their mothers' arms. Use is accepted as normal Citation: EZEKIEL 027:018 King James: Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. AUGUST | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN August 23, 2008. rbowen. Yesterday I took off work a little early and we drove up to Columbus, OH, to have dinner in Skippy ‘s back yard. Everyone else there was folks from the area – folks that he’s known for many, many years. Bob said he’d known him since he wasthree.
NOVEMBER | 2006 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Night falls on Narnia. November 30, 2006. rbowen. Last night, Sarah and I finished reading the last chapter of The Last Battle. We’ve been reading the Narnia books for more than a year now, a few chapters a night, a few days a week, with other books interspersed here and there. This is the first time I’ve read all the way through theNarnia
JANUARY | 2009 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Subtle, but definitely there. And still several hours to go before it was decent to get up and make the coffee. Sleepless. January 30, 2009, 4:42 AM. There’s an almost indiscernible moment. when late night. becomes early morning. Some nights, it’s not there at all. Night ripples gently into day. APRIL | 2009 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN April 11, 2009. rbowen. Today as I drove past the theater at Lexington Green, a car ran a stop sign through the intersection in front of me. Didn’t even slow down. I must have given him a “what the heck are you thinking” kind of look, although I don’t recall exactly. FEBRUARY | 2007 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN I’ll be giving a new training session at ApacheCon in Amsterdam.It’s a three hour hands-on tutorial covering as many Apache Web Server recipes as we can fit in. After I gave me “20 things you didn’t know you could do with your Apache web server” talk at a few conferences, a number of people suggested that I give it at a not-quite-so-frantic pace, and that idea eventually turned into MARCH | 2007 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN The sickos are in the minority. March 29, 2007. rbowen. Kathy Sierra’s situation has now made it onto international news where they seem, in my opinion, to miss the point in a rather important way. They quote Tim saying that we need a bloggers’ code of ethics, or PROS AND CONS OF AN INTRANET 1 Introduction This document is a work in progress, discussing the pros and cons of intranet technologies within the Asbury community. Intranet technology has the potential to change things about the Asbury community, and a sober examinationNOTES IN THE MARGIN
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier thanactually thinking.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING KDENLIVE AND AUDACITY 2. Open the audio track in Audacity, and noise-reduce. Select a section of the audio where nobody’s talking. This gives you the typical background noise that you want to remove. The longer this section is, the better your overall noise reduction will be. Click“Effect”
WHY IS PORNOGRAPHY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE NOW? Pornography is an addiction, and a sickness. It is an industry that exploits people on both sides of the camera. The culture that accepts it as normal, acceptable, and even healthy behavior has its priorities turned around to an alarming degree. On a related note, the degree to which porn is marketed to me, ever day, hundreds of times a day THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME The ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is the most hopeful of all of the. ghosts, and the most kind. It’s the only one that has a chance of. redeeming Scrooge. Or, rather, not redeeming him, but giving him the chance to redeem himself. Past is reminding him of things he can nolonger change.
IRC QUOTES | NOTES IN THE MARGIN IRC Quotes. February 15, 2003 rbowen. I’m pawing through old IRC logs, to see if I can find useful recipes for the book I’m working on. I say some really strange things on IRC. Here’s some samples: (Someone asking for help with Linux on a Sparc. Don’t ask me why.)ok.
UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG
upside-down flag. March 22, 2003 rbowen. This morning I drove past a house where the flag was flying upside down. While I assume that this is in protest against the war, I did a little research on the reason, if any, for flying the flag upside down under correct flag etiquette. “The flag should never be displayed with the union down, exceptAPACHE COOKBOOK
Caveat: Versions 2.2 is the current version of Apache With any luck, by the end of the year, 2.4 will be the current version of Apache If you are running 1.3, you really should GETTING YOUR CM19A WORKING ON LINUX (RASPBERRY PI) I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi, and my main project is to get X10 stuff working again in my house. To that end, I purchased a CM19a.I’m going to chronicle the process of getting it working here, so that eventually this will be a helpful howto.COFFEE SMELLS
Coffee smells. February 27, 2004 rbowen. Why is it that, some mornings, coffee smells like the most wonderful thing in the world, and some mornings it smells like eau de skunk? I swear, this morning the coffee smelled like a skunk had sprayed, and then died, in my kitchen. But it was exactly the same coffee (Tanzania peaberry mmmmm)that I
AUGUST | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN August 23, 2008. rbowen. Yesterday I took off work a little early and we drove up to Columbus, OH, to have dinner in Skippy ‘s back yard. Everyone else there was folks from the area – folks that he’s known for many, many years. Bob said he’d known him since he wasthree.
NOTES IN THE MARGIN
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier thanactually thinking.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING KDENLIVE AND AUDACITY 2. Open the audio track in Audacity, and noise-reduce. Select a section of the audio where nobody’s talking. This gives you the typical background noise that you want to remove. The longer this section is, the better your overall noise reduction will be. Click“Effect”
WHY IS PORNOGRAPHY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE NOW? Pornography is an addiction, and a sickness. It is an industry that exploits people on both sides of the camera. The culture that accepts it as normal, acceptable, and even healthy behavior has its priorities turned around to an alarming degree. On a related note, the degree to which porn is marketed to me, ever day, hundreds of times a day THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME The ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is the most hopeful of all of the. ghosts, and the most kind. It’s the only one that has a chance of. redeeming Scrooge. Or, rather, not redeeming him, but giving him the chance to redeem himself. Past is reminding him of things he can nolonger change.
IRC QUOTES | NOTES IN THE MARGIN IRC Quotes. February 15, 2003 rbowen. I’m pawing through old IRC logs, to see if I can find useful recipes for the book I’m working on. I say some really strange things on IRC. Here’s some samples: (Someone asking for help with Linux on a Sparc. Don’t ask me why.)ok.
UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG
upside-down flag. March 22, 2003 rbowen. This morning I drove past a house where the flag was flying upside down. While I assume that this is in protest against the war, I did a little research on the reason, if any, for flying the flag upside down under correct flag etiquette. “The flag should never be displayed with the union down, exceptAPACHE COOKBOOK
Caveat: Versions 2.2 is the current version of Apache With any luck, by the end of the year, 2.4 will be the current version of Apache If you are running 1.3, you really should GETTING YOUR CM19A WORKING ON LINUX (RASPBERRY PI) I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi, and my main project is to get X10 stuff working again in my house. To that end, I purchased a CM19a.I’m going to chronicle the process of getting it working here, so that eventually this will be a helpful howto.COFFEE SMELLS
Coffee smells. February 27, 2004 rbowen. Why is it that, some mornings, coffee smells like the most wonderful thing in the world, and some mornings it smells like eau de skunk? I swear, this morning the coffee smelled like a skunk had sprayed, and then died, in my kitchen. But it was exactly the same coffee (Tanzania peaberry mmmmm)that I
AUGUST | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN August 23, 2008. rbowen. Yesterday I took off work a little early and we drove up to Columbus, OH, to have dinner in Skippy ‘s back yard. Everyone else there was folks from the area – folks that he’s known for many, many years. Bob said he’d known him since he wasthree.
THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME The ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is the most hopeful of all of the. ghosts, and the most kind. It’s the only one that has a chance of. redeeming Scrooge. Or, rather, not redeeming him, but giving him the chance to redeem himself. Past is reminding him of things he can nolonger change.
COFFEE SMELLS
Coffee smells. February 27, 2004 rbowen. Why is it that, some mornings, coffee smells like the most wonderful thing in the world, and some mornings it smells like eau de skunk? I swear, this morning the coffee smelled like a skunk had sprayed, and then died, in my kitchen. But it was exactly the same coffee (Tanzania peaberry mmmmm)that I
REFERENCES TO ALCOHOL IN THE BIBLE Transfer interrupted! e streets of the city, as their lives ebb away in their mothers' arms. Use is accepted as normal Citation: EZEKIEL 027:018 King James: Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. AUGUST | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN August 23, 2008. rbowen. Yesterday I took off work a little early and we drove up to Columbus, OH, to have dinner in Skippy ‘s back yard. Everyone else there was folks from the area – folks that he’s known for many, many years. Bob said he’d known him since he wasthree.
NOVEMBER | 2006 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Night falls on Narnia. November 30, 2006. rbowen. Last night, Sarah and I finished reading the last chapter of The Last Battle. We’ve been reading the Narnia books for more than a year now, a few chapters a night, a few days a week, with other books interspersed here and there. This is the first time I’ve read all the way through theNarnia
JANUARY | 2009 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Subtle, but definitely there. And still several hours to go before it was decent to get up and make the coffee. Sleepless. January 30, 2009, 4:42 AM. There’s an almost indiscernible moment. when late night. becomes early morning. Some nights, it’s not there at all. Night ripples gently into day. APRIL | 2009 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN April 11, 2009. rbowen. Today as I drove past the theater at Lexington Green, a car ran a stop sign through the intersection in front of me. Didn’t even slow down. I must have given him a “what the heck are you thinking” kind of look, although I don’t recall exactly. FEBRUARY | 2007 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN I’ll be giving a new training session at ApacheCon in Amsterdam.It’s a three hour hands-on tutorial covering as many Apache Web Server recipes as we can fit in. After I gave me “20 things you didn’t know you could do with your Apache web server” talk at a few conferences, a number of people suggested that I give it at a not-quite-so-frantic pace, and that idea eventually turned into MARCH | 2007 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN The sickos are in the minority. March 29, 2007. rbowen. Kathy Sierra’s situation has now made it onto international news where they seem, in my opinion, to miss the point in a rather important way. They quote Tim saying that we need a bloggers’ code of ethics, or PROS AND CONS OF AN INTRANET 1 Introduction This document is a work in progress, discussing the pros and cons of intranet technologies within the Asbury community. Intranet technology has the potential to change things about the Asbury community, and a sober examinationNOTES IN THE MARGIN
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier thanactually thinking.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING KDENLIVE AND AUDACITY 2. Open the audio track in Audacity, and noise-reduce. Select a section of the audio where nobody’s talking. This gives you the typical background noise that you want to remove. The longer this section is, the better your overall noise reduction will be. Click“Effect”
WHY IS PORNOGRAPHY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE NOW? Pornography is an addiction, and a sickness. It is an industry that exploits people on both sides of the camera. The culture that accepts it as normal, acceptable, and even healthy behavior has its priorities turned around to an alarming degree. On a related note, the degree to which porn is marketed to me, ever day, hundreds of times a day THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME The ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is the most hopeful of all of the. ghosts, and the most kind. It’s the only one that has a chance of. redeeming Scrooge. Or, rather, not redeeming him, but giving him the chance to redeem himself. Past is reminding him of things he can nolonger change.
IRC QUOTES | NOTES IN THE MARGIN IRC Quotes. February 15, 2003 rbowen. I’m pawing through old IRC logs, to see if I can find useful recipes for the book I’m working on. I say some really strange things on IRC. Here’s some samples: (Someone asking for help with Linux on a Sparc. Don’t ask me why.)ok.
UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG
upside-down flag. March 22, 2003 rbowen. This morning I drove past a house where the flag was flying upside down. While I assume that this is in protest against the war, I did a little research on the reason, if any, for flying the flag upside down under correct flag etiquette. “The flag should never be displayed with the union down, exceptAPACHE COOKBOOK
Caveat: Versions 2.2 is the current version of Apache With any luck, by the end of the year, 2.4 will be the current version of Apache If you are running 1.3, you really should GETTING YOUR CM19A WORKING ON LINUX (RASPBERRY PI) I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi, and my main project is to get X10 stuff working again in my house. To that end, I purchased a CM19a.I’m going to chronicle the process of getting it working here, so that eventually this will be a helpful howto.COFFEE SMELLS
Coffee smells. February 27, 2004 rbowen. Why is it that, some mornings, coffee smells like the most wonderful thing in the world, and some mornings it smells like eau de skunk? I swear, this morning the coffee smelled like a skunk had sprayed, and then died, in my kitchen. But it was exactly the same coffee (Tanzania peaberry mmmmm)that I
AUGUST | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN August 23, 2008. rbowen. Yesterday I took off work a little early and we drove up to Columbus, OH, to have dinner in Skippy ‘s back yard. Everyone else there was folks from the area – folks that he’s known for many, many years. Bob said he’d known him since he wasthree.
NOTES IN THE MARGIN
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier thanactually thinking.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING KDENLIVE AND AUDACITY 2. Open the audio track in Audacity, and noise-reduce. Select a section of the audio where nobody’s talking. This gives you the typical background noise that you want to remove. The longer this section is, the better your overall noise reduction will be. Click“Effect”
WHY IS PORNOGRAPHY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE NOW? Pornography is an addiction, and a sickness. It is an industry that exploits people on both sides of the camera. The culture that accepts it as normal, acceptable, and even healthy behavior has its priorities turned around to an alarming degree. On a related note, the degree to which porn is marketed to me, ever day, hundreds of times a day THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME The ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is the most hopeful of all of the. ghosts, and the most kind. It’s the only one that has a chance of. redeeming Scrooge. Or, rather, not redeeming him, but giving him the chance to redeem himself. Past is reminding him of things he can nolonger change.
IRC QUOTES | NOTES IN THE MARGIN IRC Quotes. February 15, 2003 rbowen. I’m pawing through old IRC logs, to see if I can find useful recipes for the book I’m working on. I say some really strange things on IRC. Here’s some samples: (Someone asking for help with Linux on a Sparc. Don’t ask me why.)ok.
UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG
upside-down flag. March 22, 2003 rbowen. This morning I drove past a house where the flag was flying upside down. While I assume that this is in protest against the war, I did a little research on the reason, if any, for flying the flag upside down under correct flag etiquette. “The flag should never be displayed with the union down, exceptAPACHE COOKBOOK
Caveat: Versions 2.2 is the current version of Apache With any luck, by the end of the year, 2.4 will be the current version of Apache If you are running 1.3, you really should GETTING YOUR CM19A WORKING ON LINUX (RASPBERRY PI) I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi, and my main project is to get X10 stuff working again in my house. To that end, I purchased a CM19a.I’m going to chronicle the process of getting it working here, so that eventually this will be a helpful howto.COFFEE SMELLS
Coffee smells. February 27, 2004 rbowen. Why is it that, some mornings, coffee smells like the most wonderful thing in the world, and some mornings it smells like eau de skunk? I swear, this morning the coffee smelled like a skunk had sprayed, and then died, in my kitchen. But it was exactly the same coffee (Tanzania peaberry mmmmm)that I
AUGUST | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN August 23, 2008. rbowen. Yesterday I took off work a little early and we drove up to Columbus, OH, to have dinner in Skippy ‘s back yard. Everyone else there was folks from the area – folks that he’s known for many, many years. Bob said he’d known him since he wasthree.
THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME The ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is the most hopeful of all of the. ghosts, and the most kind. It’s the only one that has a chance of. redeeming Scrooge. Or, rather, not redeeming him, but giving him the chance to redeem himself. Past is reminding him of things he can nolonger change.
COFFEE SMELLS
Coffee smells. February 27, 2004 rbowen. Why is it that, some mornings, coffee smells like the most wonderful thing in the world, and some mornings it smells like eau de skunk? I swear, this morning the coffee smelled like a skunk had sprayed, and then died, in my kitchen. But it was exactly the same coffee (Tanzania peaberry mmmmm)that I
REFERENCES TO ALCOHOL IN THE BIBLE Transfer interrupted! e streets of the city, as their lives ebb away in their mothers' arms. Use is accepted as normal Citation: EZEKIEL 027:018 King James: Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. AUGUST | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN August 23, 2008. rbowen. Yesterday I took off work a little early and we drove up to Columbus, OH, to have dinner in Skippy ‘s back yard. Everyone else there was folks from the area – folks that he’s known for many, many years. Bob said he’d known him since he wasthree.
NOVEMBER | 2006 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Night falls on Narnia. November 30, 2006. rbowen. Last night, Sarah and I finished reading the last chapter of The Last Battle. We’ve been reading the Narnia books for more than a year now, a few chapters a night, a few days a week, with other books interspersed here and there. This is the first time I’ve read all the way through theNarnia
JANUARY | 2009 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Subtle, but definitely there. And still several hours to go before it was decent to get up and make the coffee. Sleepless. January 30, 2009, 4:42 AM. There’s an almost indiscernible moment. when late night. becomes early morning. Some nights, it’s not there at all. Night ripples gently into day. APRIL | 2009 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN April 11, 2009. rbowen. Today as I drove past the theater at Lexington Green, a car ran a stop sign through the intersection in front of me. Didn’t even slow down. I must have given him a “what the heck are you thinking” kind of look, although I don’t recall exactly. FEBRUARY | 2007 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN I’ll be giving a new training session at ApacheCon in Amsterdam.It’s a three hour hands-on tutorial covering as many Apache Web Server recipes as we can fit in. After I gave me “20 things you didn’t know you could do with your Apache web server” talk at a few conferences, a number of people suggested that I give it at a not-quite-so-frantic pace, and that idea eventually turned into MARCH | 2007 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN The sickos are in the minority. March 29, 2007. rbowen. Kathy Sierra’s situation has now made it onto international news where they seem, in my opinion, to miss the point in a rather important way. They quote Tim saying that we need a bloggers’ code of ethics, or PROS AND CONS OF AN INTRANET 1 Introduction This document is a work in progress, discussing the pros and cons of intranet technologies within the Asbury community. Intranet technology has the potential to change things about the Asbury community, and a sober examinationNOTES IN THE MARGIN
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier thanactually thinking.
WHY IS PORNOGRAPHY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE NOW? I’m increasingly alarmed with the degree to which internet porn is considered normal, acceptable, and good. In particular, people talkingabout it on irc.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING KDENLIVE AND AUDACITY Philip: What video format can you do this with? Also, I wonder if it’s platform specific (I’m on Fedora). I record video in mp4 format, and Audacity won’t open them, but this could simply be a matter of what libraries I have loaded/enabled/whatever. IRC QUOTES | NOTES IN THE MARGIN I’m pawing through old IRC logs, to see if I can find useful recipes for the book I’m working on. I say some really strange things onIRC.
THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME I’m on a Charles Dickens mailing list. Have been for 15 years or more. A noted Dickens scholar, who performs Dickens all year, and does A Christmas Carol several dozen times a year, asked this: After 25 seasons of touring Dickens’ solo “A Christmas Carol” there is a line which while I don’t perform it still niggles at the back of mymind.
UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG
This morning I drove past a house where the flag was flying upside down. While I assume that this is in protest against the war, I did a little research on the reason, if any, for flying the flag upside down under correct flag etiquette. GETTING YOUR CM19A WORKING ON LINUX (RASPBERRY PI) I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi, and my main project is to get X10 stuff working again in my house. To that end, I purchased a CM19a.I’m going to chronicle the process of getting it working here, so that eventually this will be a helpful howto.APACHE COOKBOOK
Caveat: Versions 2.2 is the current version of Apache With any luck, by the end of the year, 2.4 will be the current version of Apache If you are running 1.3, you really should JULY | 2010 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN In Wilmore, the town where I went to first grade and college, there is a barber shop named Clay’s.Clay has cut hair there for almost sixty years. He will utter the ancient incantation, “blocked or tapered in the back?”, he’ll will listen politely while you tell him what kind of hair cut you want, and then he’ll give you the same haircut that he’s given every man who’s come into SEPTEMBER | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Today I attended the Kentucky Bourbon Festival with Greg Stein and Bruno Bowden. We attended the Barrel Rolling contest, which was amazing. Men and women who work in the distilleries compete to see how fast they can roll full Bourbon barrels around a track of wooden rails, and roll them into a chute such that they reach the end with the rubber bung pointing up – so they have to know whichNOTES IN THE MARGIN
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier thanactually thinking.
WHY IS PORNOGRAPHY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE NOW? I’m increasingly alarmed with the degree to which internet porn is considered normal, acceptable, and good. In particular, people talkingabout it on irc.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING KDENLIVE AND AUDACITY Philip: What video format can you do this with? Also, I wonder if it’s platform specific (I’m on Fedora). I record video in mp4 format, and Audacity won’t open them, but this could simply be a matter of what libraries I have loaded/enabled/whatever. IRC QUOTES | NOTES IN THE MARGIN I’m pawing through old IRC logs, to see if I can find useful recipes for the book I’m working on. I say some really strange things onIRC.
THE KIND HAND OF THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME I’m on a Charles Dickens mailing list. Have been for 15 years or more. A noted Dickens scholar, who performs Dickens all year, and does A Christmas Carol several dozen times a year, asked this: After 25 seasons of touring Dickens’ solo “A Christmas Carol” there is a line which while I don’t perform it still niggles at the back of mymind.
UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG
This morning I drove past a house where the flag was flying upside down. While I assume that this is in protest against the war, I did a little research on the reason, if any, for flying the flag upside down under correct flag etiquette. GETTING YOUR CM19A WORKING ON LINUX (RASPBERRY PI) I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi, and my main project is to get X10 stuff working again in my house. To that end, I purchased a CM19a.I’m going to chronicle the process of getting it working here, so that eventually this will be a helpful howto.APACHE COOKBOOK
Caveat: Versions 2.2 is the current version of Apache With any luck, by the end of the year, 2.4 will be the current version of Apache If you are running 1.3, you really should JULY | 2010 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN In Wilmore, the town where I went to first grade and college, there is a barber shop named Clay’s.Clay has cut hair there for almost sixty years. He will utter the ancient incantation, “blocked or tapered in the back?”, he’ll will listen politely while you tell him what kind of hair cut you want, and then he’ll give you the same haircut that he’s given every man who’s come into SEPTEMBER | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Today I attended the Kentucky Bourbon Festival with Greg Stein and Bruno Bowden. We attended the Barrel Rolling contest, which was amazing. Men and women who work in the distilleries compete to see how fast they can roll full Bourbon barrels around a track of wooden rails, and roll them into a chute such that they reach the end with the rubber bung pointing up – so they have to know which PERL | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Long, long ago, Steve Hancock gave us PerlTidy, which allowed me to quickly and reliably convert raw Perl code into code that abided by all of my coding standards, whatever they might be for a particular project.This was much goodness. I even have a vim macro that allows me to select a block of text, type a key sequence, and have that code reformatted so that it is more easily readable, evenly JULY | 2010 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN In Wilmore, the town where I went to first grade and college, there is a barber shop named Clay’s.Clay has cut hair there for almost sixty years. He will utter the ancient incantation, “blocked or tapered in the back?”, he’ll will listen politely while you tell him what kind of hair cut you want, and then he’ll give you the same haircut that he’s given every man who’s come into CONFERENCE | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Despite my best intentions of blogging every day at Red Hat Summit, time got away from me, as it often does at these events. There’s always 3 things going on, and it’s hard to find a moment between that first cup of coffee, and stumbling into bed at the end of thenight.
DECEMBER | 2002 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Gentoo was a complete joke. Of course, perhaps I had the wrong ISO. It was not at all clear from the web site what I wanted. The iso, while it claimed to be a gentoo distro, was also a Unreal Tournament CD that would let you boot and play on any PC. SEPTEMBER | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Today I attended the Kentucky Bourbon Festival with Greg Stein and Bruno Bowden. We attended the Barrel Rolling contest, which was amazing. Men and women who work in the distilleries compete to see how fast they can roll full Bourbon barrels around a track of wooden rails, and roll them into a chute such that they reach the end with the rubber bung pointing up – so they have to know which AUGUST | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN I saw Yoav’s blog entry on Tidy and for a brief moment, in the first paragraph, thought that there was actually a phptidy utility. Alas, it was not to be. Perl has had perltidy for some time, and, as I understand, it’s a pretty hard thing to do. But I keep hoping that someone will do the same thing for PHP. Meanwhile, fortunately, php syntax is enough like perl that I can use perltidy to FEBRUARY | 2014 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN In April I will be speaking at ApacheCon North America in Denver, Colorado. I’ve had two talks accepted: Configurable Configuration is a talk about some of the new shiny configuration syntax available in Apache httpd 2.4 – stuff like the If/ElseIf/Else syntax in configuration files, the new expression evaluation engine, and mod_macro for scriptable configuration blocks, for starters. SEPTEMBER | 2007 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Having become a bit of a self proclaimed expert on mod_rewrite, I spend an inordinate amount of time answering mod_rewrite questions on #apache, on irc.freenode.net.. Unfortunately, much of that time is utterly wasted on something known as “Search Engine Optimization”, or SEO. SEO is an industry that has grown up around profound ignorance about how search engines work, and the basic theory JUNE | 2010 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN We went to see Karate Kid on Monday night. It was better than the original in every way imaginable. It was way more believable. Jaden Smith is a better actor than everyone in the original put together, and was absolutely believable. AUGUST | 2003 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Three months later, the UN is in the D.R. Congo with the ability to actually use force to stop the “tit-for-tat massacres” that have been going on since May. It’s good to know that we pay millions of dollars into such an efficient organization. Maybe, one of these days, we’ll actually see the UN doing its job on a regular basis so that the US doesn’t have to.NOTES IN THE MARGIN
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier thanactually thinking.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING KDENLIVE AND AUDACITY 2. Open the audio track in Audacity, and noise-reduce. Select a section of the audio where nobody’s talking. This gives you the typical background noise that you want to remove. The longer this section is, the better your overall noise reduction will be. Click“Effect”
WHY IS PORNOGRAPHY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE NOW? Pornography is an addiction, and a sickness. It is an industry that exploits people on both sides of the camera. The culture that accepts it as normal, acceptable, and even healthy behavior has its priorities turned around to an alarming degree. On a related note, the degree to which porn is marketed to me, ever day, hundreds of times a day IRC QUOTES | NOTES IN THE MARGIN IRC Quotes. February 15, 2003 rbowen. I’m pawing through old IRC logs, to see if I can find useful recipes for the book I’m working on. I say some really strange things on IRC. Here’s some samples: (Someone asking for help with Linux on a Sparc. Don’t ask me why.)ok.
UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG
upside-down flag. March 22, 2003 rbowen. This morning I drove past a house where the flag was flying upside down. While I assume that this is in protest against the war, I did a little research on the reason, if any, for flying the flag upside down under correct flag etiquette. “The flag should never be displayed with the union down, exceptAPACHE COOKBOOK
Caveat: Versions 2.2 is the current version of Apache With any luck, by the end of the year, 2.4 will be the current version of Apache If you are running 1.3, you really should SEPTEMBER | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Anansi’s Story. September 22, 2008. rbowen. In the beginning, all tales and stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. But Kwaku Anansi, the spider, yearned to be the owner of all the stories known in the world, and he went to Nyame and offered to buy them. Here’s thestory.
AUGUST | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN August 23, 2008. rbowen. Yesterday I took off work a little early and we drove up to Columbus, OH, to have dinner in Skippy ‘s back yard. Everyone else there was folks from the area – folks that he’s known for many, many years. Bob said he’d known him since he wasthree.
JANUARY | 2007 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Marley was dead. January 25, 2007. rbowen. The time has come again. Tomorrow night I’ll be doing my third annual performance of “A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, by Charles Dickens. It takes about 3 hours, including brief breaks between the staves, and I’m expecting about 8 people to show up. DECEMBER | 2006 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN December 12, 2006. rbowen. The airplane/treadmill problem seems to assume that the wheels provide thrust for a plane that is trying to take off. They don’t. The thrust is provided by the jets (or propellers) against the air, not against the runway. Spinning the wheels of an airplane doesn’t result inNOTES IN THE MARGIN
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier thanactually thinking.
VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING KDENLIVE AND AUDACITY 2. Open the audio track in Audacity, and noise-reduce. Select a section of the audio where nobody’s talking. This gives you the typical background noise that you want to remove. The longer this section is, the better your overall noise reduction will be. Click“Effect”
WHY IS PORNOGRAPHY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE NOW? Pornography is an addiction, and a sickness. It is an industry that exploits people on both sides of the camera. The culture that accepts it as normal, acceptable, and even healthy behavior has its priorities turned around to an alarming degree. On a related note, the degree to which porn is marketed to me, ever day, hundreds of times a day IRC QUOTES | NOTES IN THE MARGIN IRC Quotes. February 15, 2003 rbowen. I’m pawing through old IRC logs, to see if I can find useful recipes for the book I’m working on. I say some really strange things on IRC. Here’s some samples: (Someone asking for help with Linux on a Sparc. Don’t ask me why.)ok.
UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG
upside-down flag. March 22, 2003 rbowen. This morning I drove past a house where the flag was flying upside down. While I assume that this is in protest against the war, I did a little research on the reason, if any, for flying the flag upside down under correct flag etiquette. “The flag should never be displayed with the union down, exceptAPACHE COOKBOOK
Caveat: Versions 2.2 is the current version of Apache With any luck, by the end of the year, 2.4 will be the current version of Apache If you are running 1.3, you really should SEPTEMBER | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Anansi’s Story. September 22, 2008. rbowen. In the beginning, all tales and stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. But Kwaku Anansi, the spider, yearned to be the owner of all the stories known in the world, and he went to Nyame and offered to buy them. Here’s thestory.
AUGUST | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN August 23, 2008. rbowen. Yesterday I took off work a little early and we drove up to Columbus, OH, to have dinner in Skippy ‘s back yard. Everyone else there was folks from the area – folks that he’s known for many, many years. Bob said he’d known him since he wasthree.
JANUARY | 2007 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Marley was dead. January 25, 2007. rbowen. The time has come again. Tomorrow night I’ll be doing my third annual performance of “A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, by Charles Dickens. It takes about 3 hours, including brief breaks between the staves, and I’m expecting about 8 people to show up. DECEMBER | 2006 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN December 12, 2006. rbowen. The airplane/treadmill problem seems to assume that the wheels provide thrust for a plane that is trying to take off. They don’t. The thrust is provided by the jets (or propellers) against the air, not against the runway. Spinning the wheels of an airplane doesn’t result in JANUARY | 2007 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Marley was dead. January 25, 2007. rbowen. The time has come again. Tomorrow night I’ll be doing my third annual performance of “A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, by Charles Dickens. It takes about 3 hours, including brief breaks between the staves, and I’m expecting about 8 people to show up. AUGUST | 2003 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN August 31, 2003. rbowen. Three months later, the UN is. in the D.R. Congo with the ability to actually use force to stop the “tit-for-tat massacres” that have been going on since May. It’s good to know that we pay millions of dollars into such an efficient organization. Maybe, FEBRUARY | 2004 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN February 29, 2004. rbowen. There’s something strangely supernatural that happens when I cook. It seems to send out messages to receptive (yet annoying) people, so that, as soon as all the food is ready and I’m sitting down to eat it, they call. And, moreover, the harder I’ve worked on the meal, and the more important that it is that itbe
DECEMBER | 2006 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN December 12, 2006. rbowen. The airplane/treadmill problem seems to assume that the wheels provide thrust for a plane that is trying to take off. They don’t. The thrust is provided by the jets (or propellers) against the air, not against the runway. Spinning the wheels of an airplane doesn’t result in MAY | 2003 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN Congo: More surreal all the time. May 30, 2003. rbowen. I mentioned earlier that the UN was discussing sending more troops to Bunia to help in the chaos there. This has been passed and 1000 more peacekeepers are being sent to do nothing. You see, “peacekeepers” don’t have a mandate to actually intervene. So 1000 more soldiersare
APRIL | 2009 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN April 11, 2009. rbowen. Today as I drove past the theater at Lexington Green, a car ran a stop sign through the intersection in front of me. Didn’t even slow down. I must have given him a “what the heck are you thinking” kind of look, although I don’t recall exactly. MARCH | 2007 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN The sickos are in the minority. March 29, 2007. rbowen. Kathy Sierra’s situation has now made it onto international news where they seem, in my opinion, to miss the point in a rather important way. They quote Tim saying that we need a bloggers’ code of ethics, or JANUARY | 2008 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN The Weekend Wordsmith this week reminded me of a tiny neglected cemetery on Nicholasville Road, right before Regency Center (heading North), on the edge of a parking lot. You can’t quite see it from the road. You could even park there and not notice it. All that remains is perhaps 4 headstones, only two of which are actually stilllegible.
MARCH | 2005 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN The speaker notifications have gone out, and I have started the long and not-so-fun process of editing the session abstracts. While some of the abstracts are great works of literature, most of them require at least a little proofreading work before they make it into the printed conference materials. MAY | 2007 | NOTES IN THE MARGIN On Tuesday, I attended the funeral of Dr. Cornelius R. Hager, who was the founder of the University of Kentucky Community College system, and the president of Asbury College on three separate occasions, among many other things during his life. Dr. Hager stepped in at several times in the history of the college when there were times of instability, division, strife, and chaos, and provided aNOTES IN THE MARGIN
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January 22, 2021 rbowenTrack: Turi
_Turi, 1980_
_September 20, 2007_My ear on the rail,
something I’d read in a book, I proclaimed sagely that something was coming. The thrum in the raila cicada buzz
heralding the approaching storm,a minor earthquake
making the pebbles dance a jitterbug with the distant diesel.Or not so distant.
My companions scattered leaving me lying on the ground, my face on the fiery steel.Around the bend
not twenty paces awaybigger than a house
it bears down on me
whistle screaming like a tortured soul. Leaping for the side of the cuttinggaining the edge
just as the behemothroared past,
an angry beast
dragging vacuum in its wake. Heart a running rabbit trying to break through my ribs, forty eight cars, pounding past, each one no farther away than the reach of my fingers, feet scrabbling at thecrumbling red clay.
Ten, twenty, a thousand yearsas the KR express
bellowed past, shaking the whole world, inches from my slipping Batas.Then
Gone
around the next bendand gone.
Fly and Douglas
on top of the cutting laughing uncontrollably at myweak kneed terror,
the scream I didn’t even knowpoured from my lips
Then I, too, was laughing,crying, laughing,
relief, terror, and
joy to be alive,
to be so very alive
HATE-BASED POLITICS
January 21, 2021 rbowen I’ve had lots of opportunity lately to wonder about the Republican party and their hate-based politics. As far as I can tell from what I understand about American politics, the Democrat party tries to constantly improve things – considering new ideas, new processes, and new programs. The Republicans, on the other hand, want everything to be the same as it was in the long-ago “good old days” (which, it turns out, weren’t so good for everyone) and so feel that anyone with new ideas is radical and shouldbe opposed.
This is not to say, of course, that all of the Democrats’ ideas are good ones. Of course they’re not. A lot of them are stupid. But rather than engaging in actual conversation to figure out solutions, the Republicans simply choose to block everything and vilify the thinkers as because it’s easier than actually thinking. Thinking is too much like actual work. When you don’t have ideas, I guess it is natural to focus only on one’s enemies. Opposing ideas is hard, because you have to 1) understand the idea and 2) have a good alternative. It’s so much easier to just vilify and hate people. Don’t like the proposal to save the planet? Of course not. It will be expensive, and take a lot of work. But it’s hard to argue logically against it – or even to debate the ideas and arrive at compromises – so let’s focus on hating AOC, on hating Greta Thunberg, (Bonus – they’re both women! That makes them easier to hate!) and anyone else that has ideas. And who better to hate than brown people? You can tell who they are just by looking at them. No thought necessary. And, since they’re in a minority, it’s pretty safe to blame them for stuff, since they lack the political clout to do anything about it. Trump is the logical conclusion of this trend. He has no ideas. He has no solutions to anything. All he has is hate. He built his entire campaign on hate, so it should be no surprise that he built his entirepresidency on hate.
Immigration is an *ideal* place to focus this hate. Many immigrants are brown. Actual *solutions* to illegal immigration are complicated, expensive, and involve actually engaging with foreign governments to try to get to the reasons these people are coming to the USA. Better just to hate immigrants – much easier to sell. Addressing a pandemic, too, is difficult, expensive, and involves working with a lot of people you don’t like. Better to focus on the “fact” that it came from China, and so is a problem caused by people that we hate. See? Problem solved! Hate is cheap, easy, and spreads like wildfire without a lot of work. Meanwhile, Republicans have boasted for generations that they are the party of family values, of kindness, of big hearts and small government. And, if they say it, it must be so, despite the complete lack of supporting evidence. Right? WHAT IS A “SOCIAL MEDIA WEB SITE”?January 15, 2021
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The Kentucky legislature is considering a bill to require “social media web sites” to not “censor” content which is political orreligious.
It is immediately evident, from the text included in these screenshots, that the legislators in question have not the vaguest idea of how the web works, and what “social media” means. This website, for example, is a social media website, in the original definition of the term. The concept was, when the term was coined, of social/public/citizen journalism. I am a “citizen journalist”, and this is a social media website, because I publish my content here, and allow for social/public commentary. You can bet that I delete/hide/shadowban people who post comments that are not appropriate, and I plan to continue to do so. I suspect that, to these legislators, “social media” means Facebook, Twitter, and some vague notion that there are other things, like Parler, which they might include. ie, massive scale sites, run by huge organizations with staff of hundreds of thousands. They seem unaware that there are _hundreds _of large social media sites. Here’s a list of some of the larger ones . Here’s a slightly more comprehensive one.
Neither one of those even scrapes the surface of the thousands of blogs, newspaper comment sections, mailing lists, message boards, and so on, that comprise most of the Internet. You do not have a constitutional right to have your content hosted on _any _of those sites. They also have this bizarre notion that you, as a member of the public, have some kind of a right to make whatever comments you want on my website. This notion is not supported by the constitution of the US, or the constitution of Kentucky. Compelling a corporation to host the comments of random strangers on the Internet is contrary to any notion of free speech, and is equivalent to claiming that I have an obligation to leave graffiti on the walls of my house because it represents the protected speech of the random tagger. Please know that if you comment on this post, and I find the comment doesn’t spark joy, I will delete that comment in a heartbeat, and I don’t have to give you any justification for doing so. The very notion that the Kentucky government will fine me $75,000 for doing that is absurd and unconstitutional. Then there’s the even more complicated question of what constitutes a political or religious comment. I would say that practically any comment is political speech, in the right context. Now, obviously, they don’t intend to apply this law to me, in the unlikely event that it would pass. Presumably they want to apply it to Twitter – a company that has no staff or offices in Kentucky. So there’s also the question of how they would have any power toenforce this.
I wonder how many other industries state and federal legislatures attempt to regulate without the barest attempt to understand. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess “all of them.” _Edit: I just found the original document – https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/sb111/orig_bill.pdf – and it defines a social media site (among other things) as a site with more than 75 million subscribers. While this changes the details, it doesn’t change the principles behind my remarks here._ I have placed an archived copy of the bill here.
HATE MAIL
January 12, 2021 rbowen1 Comment
A few weeks ago my work project made an unpopular announcement.
If you are not already familiar with the Linux landscape, and CentOS in particular, you will find that I am unable to explain the announcement to you without a 20 minute history lesson. Even with colleagues who are in the software industry, but are unfamiliar with the Linux distro landscape, it has been challenging to explain 1) what changed and 2) why people are angry. The details of how operating systems are made are mostly boring, and you *want* them to be boring. If your operating system is getting your attention, it’s almost never for a good reason. But they are angry, and their reasons are (mostly) good ones. That said, this announcement was an announcement, not a discussion. Which is to say, it’s the new reality, and people need to adjust to this change. Which is fine to say, but rather harder in practice. This morning I sent out the monthly newsletter for the project, as I do every month. Except, this month, I’m getting a stream of hate mail, vitriol, snarky comments, and so on, from people who have evidently not read what I wrote, or who still feel that, somehow, their anger justifies them being terrible humans. Look, I get that folks are angry. And I even agree with their reasons. But lashing out at *me* because you’re angry about a decision for which I’m the spokesperson doesn’t make any sense. Not only will it not change the decision, but it makes me less sympathetic to yourcomplaints.
MOD_PONY IS NOW ON GITHUB January 10, 2021 rbowen I got email this weekend from a computer science student in Italy, asking about mod_pony. He told me that they use mod_pony in their class as an example Apache httpd module, but that the original article pointing to the mod_pony sources was 404’ing, because my svn server has been retired. So … I am pleased to announce that mod_pony is now on Github.
This is all a demonstration of the Internet reality that no matter how silly you are, someone, somewhere, is going to take it seriously. (See also: Acme::Time::Asparagusfor another
illustration of this.) CONTENT MODERATION AND COMMUNITY CURATIONJanuary 10, 2021
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When Parler started up their website with (supposedly) no content moderation terms of service, I was skeptical. I wrote about it at the time, but unfortunately did so on Facebook, making it more work than it’s worth to track down. I ran a community website for 25 years (roughly) and content moderation was the most difficult part of it. Nobody wants content moderation, except when they do. If you take down my comment, that’s censorship. If you take down someone else’s, that’s setting the right community tone. Every site has content moderation – it’s just a question of how it is done. It’s a question of deciding what is appropriate (or on topic) and removing things that are not. On Parler, for example, if you make pro-Democrat comments, they get shouted down and are moderated by virtue of being drowned out. On Twitter, on the other hand, if you make pro-Nazi comments, they get actually removed. These are just two versions of the same thing. But with a site like Parler, which was created, presumably, specifically to get past the unfair moderation rules of Facebook and Twitter, you have another problem. The site is specifically intended to allow the most egregious breaches of common etiquette and good manners. And, of course, to be friendly to the kind of thugs and fact-averse people who were responsible for storming the Capitol last week. This means that they’re continually going to be pushing the envelope, and then you run into a kind of content moderation that we all eventually are subject to – when your content actually breaksthe law.
Calling for the execution of elected officials (or, indeed, of anyone) is a violation of federal law. I ran into this with my Kenya website, when people were calling for lynchings and genocide. So, y’know, I had to do something about that. And after 25 years of that, I called it quits. Parler has now encountered this same reality, albeit at a much larger scale, and for a much heftier bill. Anybody with any community website experience saw this coming, and I’m frankly astonished it took solong.
AWS has very very permissive content policies – basically “don’t break the law”. But when they warned Parler again and again, and Parler did not do anything about it, they had to take action. If you refuse to moderate the comments of your community, eventually someone else will step in and do it for you. And if you do it in a way that makes news in this way, finding another provider to host your content is going to be very tricky. (Cory has an excellent discussion of this over on Twitter.)
PROTECTED BY MY WHITENESSJanuary 8, 2021
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One of the images that really struck me on Wednesday evening was after the thugs had been removed from the Capitol and a there was a line of cops in riot gear keeping them out – standing shield to shield with the hooligans on the outside. Several of them were walking the line, getting up in the cops’ faces. I couldn’t hear what they were saying, of course, but it was clear that they felt safe. They knew that they were protected by their whiteness. They knew, with complete confidence, that they would not have any immediate repercussions for their insolence and rudeness, and that these armed officers would not do anything to them. Many Americans, looking at that moment, thought about how if they, with their dark skin, were to dare such insolence, they would be immediately beaten or killed for it. They would never, ever dare to do that, because it would be so foolish. But what I remembered was an incident that, I am sure, I never told my Mom about. I doubt I ever told anyone other than the friends who were there with me at the time. I was downtown Nairobi and someone said something rude to a policeman. Or maybe he didn’t. Maybe he laughed at a joke with a friend. Who knows. But within seconds the cop was beating him with his baton, and a crowd was gathering. Being a stupid kid, I stayed and watched while the cop beat the man half to death, and then walked away. It was absolutely terrifying. And, EVEN THEN, I knew that it could never happen to me, but that it could happen to ANY of the Kenyansaround me.
This is why I am so deferential to cops. This is why it terrifies me when my son talks back and argues with cops. EVERY black kid in America understands this from the time they can understand anything, and my kids will never truly understand it. And of course, as a parent, I am so so so glad that they will never understand it. But at the same time, it is profoundly unjust and disgusting and indecent that every black and brown kid knows this tobe reality.
That’s the image that will stick with me from Wednesday night – that insolent spoiled privileged child, sneering in the face of authority, knowing that he was safe from consequences.BIKING IN 2020
January 1, 2021 rbowen After three months of great progress (139 miles in September, 260 in October, and 251 in November) December was a bust, with only 32 miles. I hate biking indoors. Hate it hate it hate it. And the cold and wetkilled my progress.
Goals for 2021:
January, get back up over 200 miles (yeah, even if I have to do itindoors. Ick.)
And then keep it above 200 all year, hopefully 350-400 during the summer months. If I can get back to 15 per day, that’s 360 (with one day off per week), so this should be doable. If I can get through the winter months. Did I mention I hate bikingindoors?
WRITE MORE
December 30, 2020 rbowen For the last 15 years, at least, my New Year’s resolution Has been to write more. Some years I do better than others. This year waspretty wretched.
Of course, I do write, all day long. I write to do lists. I write reports. I write hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of email messages. But it’s hard to find time for the simple act of just writing forthe joy of writing.
This year, one again, my new year’s resolution is to write more. Daily if possible. A sentence or a paragraph or a poem. LIKE A SNAIL IN THE MORNINGDecember 16, 2020
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