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:


I Did Not Know: pbzip2

I just learned about pbzip2, which lets your multicore computer use more than one core when using the bzip2 compression algorithm.

DSL Outage

I lost my DSL service for the weekend. I’ve performed a highly professional root cause analysis and present the following conclusion:

The Vet

Two different approaches to a vet visit.