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Welcome to Twin Peaks

Happy halloween. The 32-bit Cafe had a fun idea for doing a halloween-themed custom stylesheet and I decided to take part. I may have missed the point ...

Ringing Rocks

My wife and I went to Ringing Rocks Park over the weekend. We learned about it a few years ago and have been wanting to go. There's a small trail system there ...

The mwilson effect

I got started with Linux in 2000. (I realize that I spend a lot of time writing about things that happened a long time ago. I do also live in the present and will try to acknowledge that in my writing.) My first distribution was debian potato (2.2) I've always been happy that my intro to Linux was codenamed potato ...

Everything 99¢ or less and up

I was passing by a shop in a local strip mall when a sign in the window caught my eye. In the middle, in large black print, it said "Everything 99¢." Beneath that, "or less" was written in smaller blue print and different handwriting. And finally, in the lower right corner a third hand had written "and up" in even smaller green print ...

A Tourist in Edinburgh

Day 1 I'm in Edinburgh, Scotland for the first time. I've spent the day being a tourist with my wife. I grew up in Orlando, so whenever I get to be a tourist in someone else's city I feel like the universe is settling accounts ...