sine qua non

I’ve forked the tech-type posts into their own blog, haxx.sinequanon.net and will keep this one for more personal stuff. The few existing tech posts are mirrored in both blogs for backwards-googlebility. And I recovered the old-old images back into the blog.

So I’m trying this blog thing again. I never really got into it because I didn’t want to post a bunch of simple chatty stuff. Then I started noticing that my web searches were finding more answers on blogs than on archived email lists. Finally, Jared Richardson convinced me during his keynote Career 2.0 at the Rich Web Experience conference. Viewing blog posts on technical issues as informal documentation makes sense to me. If I have find a solution or workaround to some problem, then it would probably help other people. Lately I’ve been trying to get my new desktop system at work up to snuff. The sysadmins barely did anything - changed the home directory and user logins to the network but didn’t even set the right time zone or setup ntp. So my first new post will be a little update to the documentation for the Fluxbox window manager that I can’t add to their wiki docs. We’ll see how much I keep this up, but I may try to also start participating in the Session again too. Oh yeah, on the ToDo list is to recover the images in the old posts.