nsrjb -w -S 7 … aka, 7 weeks to go

In 7 weeks I’ll be moving. Not the blog – that’s staying right here, but I, personally will be moving.…

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37 Signals and the “end of the IT department”

The folks over at 37 Signals published a little piece of what I would have to describe as crazy fiction,…

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Aside: Icarus, revisited

A while ago I wrote about the “Perils of an Icarus Support Contract” … funnily enough, when I did, it…

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Aside: In praise of pbzip2

A while ago I got rather frustrated with the performance of compression utilities on my Mac Pro. It’s a bit…

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The real joy of consulting

Consulting isn’t the glamour job that a lot of people think it is. Sure, you may get to travel and…

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MMIA, not MIA

Just to let you folks know that I’m currently just “mostly missing in action” rather than “missing in action”. It’s…

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Microsoft, start your copiers

For the release of both Mac OS X Tiger (10.4 – 2005) and Max OS X Leopard (10.5 – 2007),…

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Hiatus…?

I will be taking a hiatus from this blog, which will last at least two weeks, or perhaps longer. No…

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RIP Solaris

Having observed Oracle’s strategy now for a while since the acquisition of Sun, and many discussions with a quite a…

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Aside – An argument against internet censorship

On my personal blog, where I normally babble on about anything that strikes my interest at any given time, I…

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