Author Archives: iain

With apologies to Winston

Open Source is the worst form of software except all the others that I’ve tried. I’m still in pain from migrating my mail system from mireille (my server in Tool, TX) to kirika (my supposed replacement server in Plano, TX). With one exception, every package has somewhat adequate documentation, but none do a very good […]

piled higher and all that

Would you bother to get into an email argument with someone who puts PhD in his reply address? Well, I’ll know better next time. (Edit: By that, I don’t mean arguing with someone who’s smarter than me. I do that all the time. I’m just wondering about the kind of person whose ego requires PhD […]

Everybody has a blog…

… so I should, too. I guess. I’ve been fooling around with WordPress for a while, so it’s far easier now for me to set up the blog than to think of a title for it. Maybe in a week or three. For today’s comment: spent a long time wandering around Barnes and Noble. Mainly […]