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UNCLE 1×1 The Vulcan Affair

I’m rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE from start to finish. These reviews contain spoilers. The first episode of the Man from UNCLE is a solid story with a missed opportunity of almost tragic significance. This episode could … Continue reading

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The Man from UNCLE

When I was a kid, I loved watching The Man from UNCLE on Nick-at-Night (or whatever it was.) The idea of a secret organization with inherently unsung heroes appealed to me, maybe partly because I felt pretty thoroughly unnoticed at … Continue reading

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Christmas in New Zealand 2019

Early this year, my staff members began acting highly suspicious. At first, I assumed they were plotting another rearrangement in furniture. They don’t do that often, but when they do it takes me days to remap the layout, and they … Continue reading

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Ethernet-over-Power

Months ago, someone was chatting about some network upgrades they wanted to do for a local hackspace, and he mentioned “ethernet over power”. I chuckled and pointed out that he meant “power over ethernet”, to which he said that no, … Continue reading

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WordPress Migration to a Subdir

Recently, kenlon.com moved its WordPress instance to a subdir on the same server. The actual move appeared to be simple: $ mv wp ed/wp Done. Well, almost. We also went into the admin dash and updated the Permalink URL in … Continue reading

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Warning to Other Cats

Warning to all other cats: Keep away from my yard. If you do not, I will paw and scratch at the backdoor window as loud as I possibly can, until you go away. I will do this day or night, … Continue reading

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Lego

This weekend we spent our Saturday building a Lego set we got at a local toy store with probably the most amazing stock of Lego sets we have ever seen. They even had a window display of a really nice … Continue reading

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Sheep and Lego

If you like Lego, or sheep, you need to see this important documentary about New Zealand.   Credits: Kdenlive Synfig Studio Audacity

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Uninstalling Applications, Incorrectly

I started volunteering at the local Makerspace as the IT Guy (official title). I inherited 15 laptops, all running an OS that were running, let’s say (since I dislike naming names) a closed source Non-POSIX operating system. The computers were … Continue reading

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ImagineFX Artists Choice Award

The magazine ImagineFX covers tools of the digital art trade, but generally has a bias toward the usual commercial products. Even though open source tools are used quite heavily (and sometimes exclusively) in some markets, ImagineFX tends to not report … Continue reading

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