Hi there.

This site has been around since December 2000. There have been ups and downs, but it’s been nice having a place to write things that feel like they belong to me, not to the place where I write them.

Here, some recent (?) posts:


Good Software Practices Scale Down

Today I revisited some scripts I last touched on December 5, 2011 for very very carefully archiving research data with checksums, an audit trail, and other very very careful things like that.

No Solaris 11 for Legacy UltraSPARC

I don’t do a lot of Solaris anymore, and though I’m interested in several of the new features in the upcoming Solaris 11, I wasn’t aware until today that it wouldn’t run on most legacy UltraSPARC systems: