Doug

Doug

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

“Digital Lynch Mobs”

I know I haven’t blogged about the Eason Jordan “US military is targeting journalists in Iraq” scuffle that ended in Jordan’s resignation from CNN, but apparently some of our friends on the leftish side of the political spectrum have taken…

IT News: RedHat Releases RHEL 4

RedHat officially released RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 today. This marks the first time that the 2.6 Linux kernel will be appearing in RHEL, as well as Evolution 2.0, GNOME 2.8 and a whole host of other upgrades, all of which…

WordPress 1.5 Is Out!

The team responsible for WordPress (the blogging software I use) just released their newest version (1.5) named “Strayhorn”. You can grab it from the download area of the main WP site. I’ve been fooling around with a test blog running…

Chain Reaction Movie Titles

Michelle over at A Small Victory has posted a fun “contest” to have people come up with the best “chain reaction” movie titles – i.e., combine existing movie titles to form new ones (the examples she gives are Peggy Sue…

Standard Sources Of Amusement: Coworkers

I work with a bunch of very brilliant engineers whose work is, in general, excellent. However, in some select circumstances, that brilliance leads to a general lack of context and a bit of cluelessness. For instance, I was eating lunch…