As a sysadmin/programmer I have always considered documentation to be something that wasn't worth my time. Also when you keep getting work piled on, documentation is the last thing i want to have to worry about. Anyway today I learned why documentation is so important ( Read more... )

There are certain professions that responsibility is a requirement and expected: doctor, pilot, police office and pharmacist. Every job comes with a certain level of responsibility, these are jobs that the responsibility is because of an impact on other people. There is one profession that is left of this list because so many members don't show ( Read more... )

With Dragon*Con just around the corner it is important to point out appropriate costume attire.

Dragon*Con, for those that have never attended, is a large Science Fiction/Fantasy convention which I am speaking at this year. One of the traditions, which I do not participate in, is wearing a costume. Many of the costumes are great, some are a ( Read more... )

Michael Badnarik is polling at 5% in New Mexico. This is a big deal.

The weekend is upon us. I am still a little behind on my DragonCon presentation and am going to give it my best shot to catch up this weekend. Goal is to start doing dry runs on August 15th.

I am going to start doing some research on the MediaMax CD3. I am going to stand on the shoulders of giants but focus on some new areas. I think I am ( Read more... )

This is an intersting analysis.

If you are one of those "throwing your vote" away people you might want to read this.

Checking the independent media websites there is something to notice. There is no reporting of how protesters at the DNC are being treated. This isn't all that strange as I am willing to bet the protesters are being treated fairly. They are quite a distance from the convention itself and barricaded behind a fence but that is for security ( Read more... )

I am a big guy. Okay, I am a fat guy. I have a dog. The cutest dog in the world. Yeah, that isn't important to the topic at hand but I am just stating a fact. My dog is a <20lb lhasa apso. So we have a fat ^H^H^big man with a small dog. Got a mental picture ( Read more... )

So I am going to be converting my mom to Linux over the next couple of days (weeks). Because there isn't a lot of documented occurrences of this happening I will document this.

I am going to be using DocBook. I want to learn DocBook so that I can help document Open Source projects in the future and to use it to convince my coworkers this is a ( Read more... )

I don't understand this. There has to be some form of logical explanation that I am just blinded to ( Read more... )