Doug

Doug

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

An Interesting Idea For Selling Real Estate

On our way home today, my wife and I happened to see several handmade signs advertising a house, For Sale By Owner, with a unique twist: instead of pointing to some FSBO website, the signs advertised a domain name that…

DreamHost-Related Site Weirdness

If you’ve been having difficulty reaching this site over the past few days (I know that I have, for one…), there appears to be two very good reasons: DreamHost (my hosting provider) has been having ARP issues as well as…

Man, Pat Sajak Must Be Ticked!

I will say this for working with a bunch of geek fellow travelers: you learn a lot of interesting things during lunchtime conversations, such as the fact that Monty Hall has a probability problem/”paradox” named after him. The problem, simply…

A Very Merry Unbirthday To Me

Work has been a little on the crazy side as of late, so my 5th anniversary of blogging (which was yesterday) passed by unnoticed. Mind you, it’s not the 5th anniversary of Literal Barrage, whose existence traces to sometime after…