Blake Swopes is a disabled former Linux Systems Administrator from Southern California. Due to chronic pain, he can no longer spend much time on a keyboard, so this site has become largely archival.
Many of you know I have an issue with mandatory gift giving for birthdays and holidays… I don’t need them, and I generally don’t give them. If you feel the need to give something, here’s a suggestion…
Those of you who know my site, bhodisoft, will be familiar with my support of RAINN… If you feel the need to give something this year, I’d prefer that you instead make a donation to them. You don’t have to make it in my name, credit doesn’t matter…
Buy a shirt, or a necklace, or a CD… Make a donation. Spread the word… Or find your own charity to support if you don’t already have one…
RAINN now has a 24 hour hotline, and even do instant messaging… donations will help them keep going.
If I ever develop some new technology or application, remind me not to use a dictionary word when I name it… Seriously, try googling for help on ‘more’, ‘tar’, or — my current PITA — ‘satellite’.
Wild! I hadn’t heard about this… but apparently 18 months back, Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, lost the ability to speak (in most circumstances) due to some funky brain thingee called Spasmodic Dysphonia… There isn’t any known case of a person recovering from this, but it has happened and Scott can talk again… here’s his blog entry on the subject….
When you start the day by kill -9’ing the multiple sessions your manager has left open across multiple (database) servers for the last several days… yeah, that’s good stuff.