Autumn Is Your Last Chance
Perfect song for an Autumn Sunday. One of my favorite Robyn Hitchcock songs – and that’s saying something, really. He has an amazing body of…
Joining Red Hat
When you think of Linux, one of the first phrases that comes to mind is “Red Hat.” When people look to give examples of successful…
[Review] Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching that Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism
More than 100 years ago in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a black man named Ed Johnson was dragged from his jail cell and taken to the Walnut…
In Which I Finally Install AdBlock
For years, I’ve resisted installing AdBlock or any other type of ad-blocking software. Not because I love ads, but because so much content is ad-supported…
Weekend Reading: “They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?” and “No Country for Old Men”
Knocked down a couple of fiction books this weekend while traveling to and from Southeast LinuxFest. They Eat Puppies, Don’t They? by Christopher Buckley, and No Country…
[Review] The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
A few years ago, I came late to The Wire, but caught up quickly. Usually I’m not one to buy the hype for television series,…
Predictions on Tumblr
If you haven’t heard that Yahoo is buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion (mostly cash), then you’re probably not paying a lot of attention to tech…
Book Review: Gulp by Mary Roach
Mary Roach’s Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal is typical of her books, which is to say it’s a highly enjoyable read that belies the amount of…
Changed history forever
People often try to fluff up the importance of an event or person by saying it “changed history,” “changed the course of history,” or “changed…