not waving but drowning

Tonight another UPS failed. Same brand as before, these little black APC units. It failed the same way as the last one, by going into a perpetual 15 second power off/on cycle. I had bought these small units to run my little router and cable modem, wanting to have a separate power source for the [...]

Late last night I finally got the Statiksoft LLC taxes completed, which had to be completed before I could finish my personal taxes, and this morning before work got everything mailed off and finished. One good thing I learned is that I can probably open up an invididual 401K because of being a part owner [...]

For my daily work, I am booted into Ubuntu Linux, always whatever the current dev version is. And it is tremendously comfortable. However, I am not religous about it, I insist on using the best tools for the job, and I don’t mind a bit of effort occasionally to help improve free software to make [...]

I’ve long used server-side mail filtering to prioritize the large amount of daily email I get. I also claim that I value code reviews and user feedback very highly. Recently, I’ve adjusted my mail filters to match my claims.
Before, I filtered ALL mailing lists into folders, one per list. Any message that was also adressed [...]