Doug

Doug

Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...

Sabayon: GNOME-Centric SysAdmin’s Dream Come True

The Sabayon project looks very, very promising for sysadmins (like me) who have a large population of GNOME users whose desktops the admins want to autoconfigure. Although I deplore GConf (it’s basically a Windows Registry, implemented in flat text files…

Brilliant!

It seems as though Tim Blair has stumbled upon the transcripts of the ever-nefarious Karl Rove’s brainstorming sessions in preparation for the execution of Rathergate. The fiend! Heh.

Web Designers, Your Book Has Arrived

Any web developer worth his or her salt these days has familiarized themselves with CSS, which adds great depth and complexity to the site designs and layouts possible in modern browsers. Those same developers may well be familiar with the…

Vaguely Disturbing/Humorous Spam Email Of The Day

The following spam email: Subject: Re: Slutty Housewires Cheats on husband [emphasis mine. -ed.] From: Concern R. Inclosed < [email address deleted]> To: [me] Message: What are the washing instructions? [spam link clipped] The less routine the more life. Uvidimsja…

Uh Oh.

EB just called. My Gran Turismo 4 preorder just came in. On an unrelated note, I’ve got to, ummm, be, uhhhh, somewhere else right now…

I’m “Hip”. I’m “With It”.

Microsoft, in an attempt to help all those parents out there troubled by their leet-speekin’ kids, now offers a “helpful” primer on just how to understand your otherwise unintelligible progeny. They offer such valuable advice as “Rules of grammar are…

Egads, Zounds And All That Rubbish!

Apologies for the postless Monday – I myself spent most of it in bed or in a half-conscious daze, as apparently some form of alien lifeform crawled into my sinus cavities and expired some time late Sunday night. I woke…

And Back On Again

Then, on Thursday, Lileks moved himself back into my good graces again. *grin* While his entire Bleat is worth reading (it concerns this snarky Newsweek piece bemoaning how American mothers feel a pressure to be “Supermom”), there’s a particular bit…

Off Again

Then, in the space of a single Bleat, Lileks leaped to a conclusion that I take a bit of issue with. Also from last Wednesday’s Bleat: Oh: I mentioned yesterday that I wrote a column on Intelligent Design. Basic point:…

On Again

If you don’t read James Lileks regularly, you don’t know what you’re missing. Lileks is a columnist from Minnesota and, while he publishes a semi-weekly column and has authored a couple of hilarious books, he’s also a bit of a…