Excellent interview at Mixergy on The Power of Habits and how to point them in a new direction so you end end up where you want to.
My current diagramming program of choice is yEd. It definitely has it’s quirks, but I haven’t found anything this powerful that is free. I’ve been running it for a long time on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64 bit) and… Continue Reading →
The other day I set out to write a post on getting a WordPress instance running on OpenShift. I got sidelined in the confusion of determining the best place to install rhc tools from. I’m trying to be more deliberate… Continue Reading →
I’d encourage anyone who wants to host an application for free and try things out to sign up for an OpenShift account. There’s really nothing to lose. There’s an interesting thread on Hacker News about OpenShift with some people suggesting they’d… Continue Reading →
The other day I was musing about fear and ambiguity (uncertainty) and a few days later I was browsing Jonathan Fields’ blog and saw that he had written a book on just this topic. Lucky for me it wasn’t checked out… Continue Reading →
Many years ago, as an internal auditor, I saw this quote pinned to the cube wall of a sprawling loan processing center in Beaverton, Oregon. We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We… Continue Reading →
This is worth thinking about. Unaddressed fear becomes toxic; it erodes our mind, body, and spirit. When we try to avoid our fear, we feed it. When we lean into it, we soften it. The fear-busting practices of yoga and… Continue Reading →
Being your emails and blog posts off with the punch line. Here’s why. Most people write emails and blog posts that build a case, fact by fact and piece by piece, almost like a case presented to a jury. There’s… Continue Reading →
Until recently I’d never heard of or seen this tool before. Then a headlight went out on my car and I had to remove three screws in very difficult location. I found a couple of forum posts describing how to… Continue Reading →
I have no technical backing for this suggestion except that I’ve seen it work on two different operating systems with the Google Chrome web browser. Accessing my self-hosted WordPress blog to add posts and do site maintenance, page loads were taking… Continue Reading →
Mortgage Madness I refinanced again–once again with no closing costs while sacrificing some on the rate. Interest rates are again at historic lows which meant I had to take avantage of two great opportunities–lowering my rate by three quarters of a… Continue Reading →
This quote from Mark Sigal’s Ruminations on the legacy of Steve Jobs was interesting, If this seems intuitive, and it should be, consider the modus operandi that preceded it. Before Apple, the hard truth was that the “inmates ran the asylum,” in… Continue Reading →
Today I ran into a strange problem where messages seemed to be missing from my Inbox. Running “repair folder” from the properties tab automatically moved several messages to the trash. Moving them back to the inbox and repeating the process… Continue Reading →
My recent post on fixing terminator was months in the making, partly because I lost the environment I was using to double-check all the steps and partly because other things just kept coming up. Several months back when I found the original fix… Continue Reading →
In my switch from Fedora to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) one of the things I lost was Terminator. Even though it was in EPEL and installed without issue, the cursor wasn’t visible, making it hard to use. For a… Continue Reading →
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