[Book] David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones

Book sleeve cover The author of this book took a huge amount of time to collect together statements and interviews from a vast array of people who knew or in some cases even briefly met David Bowie.  Jarringly, there are places where David Bowie's own statements are included.  All of these vignettes are presented each in whole, collected into chapters into an approximate order as to when the main point of each vignette happened....

31 Oct 2018 · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink

[Tech] Web Server Notes

This is a link to my notes on how I run my web servers at home, hosted on my home servers. https://www.home.vollink.com/gary/setup.html

30 Oct 2018 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Next Career Move

The company I work(ed) for has been planning a division sell-off for most of the year.  Weeks after that division spin-off into Private Equity, I was notified that my last day will be 29 October.  The last time I was laid-off, it was similarly driven by a corporate action.  Upper management had been talking about a flatter organization, and cutting out management levels, so I was well prepared mentally.  I actually expected that I would take it much worse than I did....

20 Oct 2018 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

[Book] Bloodline by Claudia Gray

Book cover I realize that I've read and reviewed a lot of books that I don't really like.  This review isn't that.  I liked the book, Leia; Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray so much that when I found out she had another book in the Star Wars universe, I bought it right away. I really like to keep these reviews spoiler-free, and if I really enjoy a book, I actually have a much harder time writing about it, because - well - everything I enjoy about a book seems like a possible spoiler....

17 Oct 2018 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink