This really makes me sad: http://googlereader.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html.

Does anyone know of a similar service? I've gotten so used to using Google Reader (not the web interface, but the actual syncing and being able to connect to the account with all my various RSS …

Spent a few hours last night laying some of the groundwork for getting more of the second sleeve done.

This is was re-lining and darkening of my existing cross, and I think the flames look pretty darn sweet.

This is re-lining and darkening of my tribal Jesus, and fixing the …

Sorry, couldn't resist. =)

So normally I do my updates from one version of Fedora to the next using yum, in particular the Upgrading Fedora using yum guide. Usually it works pretty good. I didn't really have much good experience with PreUpgrade the few times I tried it, so I wanted …

In light of my recent (mis-)adventures with Fedora 18 installation in VMware Fusion and the need to figure out some systemd stuff, I've started writing a hints/tip sheet type entry on my wiki: Systemd. Far from complete yet, but I'm going to use it to document some hints …

I was thoroughly excited about Fedora 18 until I actually went to install it. I use Fedora 17 on a laptop and a desktop, but I also have copies in virtual machines that I use for testing -- these virtual machines run in VMware Fusion on my Mac Pro. So never …

I've been running an instance of my Nagios XI monitor in a VMware Fusion virtual machine on my (aging) Mac Pro. The other day I found a blog post on How I converted a VMware VM to KVM and since my new LAN server is a beefy 8-core AMD FX-8120 …

So I've been having to deal with some IPA-related bugs in the past little bit, which of course got me thinking that I had no idea what IPA did or how to use it (thankfully I wasn't responsible for fixing the bugs!). But as I had to deal with this …

I'm a big fan of the git-notifier script, which acts as a hook in git to send you nice emails about things that have changed in your git repos. I'm also a bugzilla user, so I wanted to be able to put git commit notifications, automatically, in bugzilla if "bug …

Software Update Service is part of OS X Lion server (and Mountain Lion server) that allows you to download OS updates and serve them to multiple clients on a local network (similar to Red Hat's Satellite server, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux). I've had to play with this because we're …

I don't normally post things like this... how could you? With so much need in the world, you could post about kids every day, multiple times a day, and still not cover them all. But this one is special. Teagan is a family friend, and so I have to mention …