For a few years I've had this blog and The Thirsty Meeple blog. The former focused on tech, and our family. The other focused on our hobby of Table Top Gaming (Boardgames, RPGs) But both sites have not had much activity in some time so I've decided to combine their…
This year was our first Gen Con, we got housing but only at a hotel by the airport. There is zero traffic so driving in was easy and parking if you got there around 9am was reasonable and available. I heard lots of complaints about the shuttle bus so if…
[Please also check out Part 1] In this new post about a modern programming operating system I'm going to comment on what a flood of people gave me in the comments on the post and on Hacker News. I'm very thankful for the overwhelming support and ideas that came from…
I was reminiscing about my childhood and computers in comparison to what my own children have. How booting up the Vic20 and later the C128 and being presented with nothing more than a blue screen and a flashing cursor prompting me to type in some basic code. I could save…
Ive been seeing this in my local postfix log: Dec 10 08:46:50 totoro.local postfix/smtp[59905]: Untrusted TLS connection established to smtp.gmail.com[74.125.142.109]:587: TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits It wasn't harmful, mail still is sent. But annoying, yes! The…
Here are my top 12 albums for 2012, they are no in order as I consider them all great for varies reasons :) I also included a couple of bonus items that came out as an EP or a single. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die Ben Folds Five -…
Decided to restart the ol'blog. I'm getting kind of fed up with Twitter and Facebook isn't the right platform for posts on a technical level. I thought of using Google+ but the thought of maintaining yet another social network didn't sound like the right thing either. So I imported my…
RIP Watson ?-2009 As some of you may or may not beaware of, one of our dogs Watson got very sick about 6 days ago and was not eating and we got very worried about him. The new Mahalo Answers community rallied around him when I posted a question on…