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Got a year of essays on the One Year Bible, a few articles on fatherhood, home improvement, management, recipes.

Saturday, November 06, 2021

__stack_chk_fail(): What It Means

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Recently I had a “stack smashing” incident to debug at work. It turned out to be a little more complicated than the example I'm about ...
Thursday, November 04, 2021

Animations with gifsicle... plus complications

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Some years ago, I discovered the excellent gifsicle , which I've used a few many times to create animated GIFs, like this sunrise a...
Monday, October 25, 2021

What I Did on My Weekend Vacation

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I've been working 3-day weeks now for some months. I take Fridays and Mondays off, so it's been consecutive 4-day weekends....
Sunday, October 24, 2021

To Enter God’s Rest

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I wrote about this in 2008 but the subject of rest came up recently in a class, or “lab,” on the subject of faith and work (it’s using...
Tuesday, June 08, 2021

Not Gerrymandering Redwood City? How could we tell?

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Until the 2018 election, elections for City Council seats were city-wide. In 2019, in response to a California Voting Rights Act lawsui...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

How many pages per character? (not a typo)

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NOTE: if the tables below look smooshed, try clicking on the title above ("How many pages...") Suppose you're writing a n...
Sunday, December 06, 2020

A lucky hdd recovery adventure

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In all my years of home computing, I never had a catastrophic hard drive failure. Saturday's excitement felt like one, with I/...
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I've worked in the computer industry for over 40 years. During that time, I met Jesus (1978), became a member at MPPC, met the lovely Carol and married her, moved to Japan, then back after about 6 years. We have two daughters, no longer teenagers, who are smarter and more spiritual and kinder and nicer and more talented than we had any right to expect.
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