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 This series starts moments after the end of Star Wars episode 3, Revenge of the Sith, and tells the story of both Darth Vader becoming the Dark Jedi Master under Palpatine, but also tells of the growth of the Empire during that time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-23 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">23 Jan 2019</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Comic] Darth Vader 1-25 by Charles Soule, art: Giuseppe Camuncoli" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/comic-darth-vader-1-25-by-charles-soule-art-giuseppe-camuncoli/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Book Review Feedback Request</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I have gone through and updated tags on all existing and future book reviews, with the hope they may be easier to find in the future.
 First, all book reviews (even short ones) now include the tag book-reviews.  That is, if I'm telling you what I think about a book, it is a book review.  There are also short-book-reviews on some.
-If my general impression of a book is that I enjoyed it, I've included the tag, recommend....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-10 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">10 Jan 2019</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Book Review Feedback Request" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/book-review-feedback-request/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Seems an appropriate way to start off the first book review of 2019 with a book that came out in 2009.  On top of that, it's a book that I really, really enjoyed reading.
+If my general impression of a book is that I enjoyed it, I've included the tag, recommend....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-10 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">10 Jan 2019</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Book Review Feedback Request" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/book-review-feedback-request/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/9/>« Prev</a>
-This book follows the protagonist, Henry Lee both as a 13 year old in 1943, and an adult in 1986.  If you have been reading my reviews for a while, you'll note that I get picky when time starts jumping around, and I'm really happy to say that this book gets this simple detail absolutely right: Every chapter title includes the year....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Jan 2019</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/9/>« Prev</a>
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+This book follows the protagonist, Henry Lee both as a 13 year old in 1943, and an adult in 1986.  If you have been reading my reviews for a while, you'll note that I get picky when time starts jumping around, and I'm really happy to say that this book gets this simple detail absolutely right: Every chapter title includes the year....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-01-09 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">9 Jan 2019</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Euphemania by Ralph Keyes</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover I love puns, and this is a book about the grandfather of puns... the good ole euphemism.  This book moves smoothly from subject to subject bringing up lots of history.  It is sometimes funny, but it doesn't overplay.  Overall, it's a pretty serious book about the very human desire to avoid talking directly about certain subjects.
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 From Bears to Bowdlerism...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-26 21:32:00 -0500 -0500">26 Dec 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Euphemania by Ralph Keyes" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/euphemania/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] There There by Tommy Orange</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover I will start by noting that this book started slow for me.  It took me over two weeks to read the prologue up through the fourth chapter.  Once I passed that, I read the next 80% of the book in two days finishing on a third.
-Every character in this book is a Native American either from or converging on Oakland California.  There is a lot of exploration, especially among the young characters, of what it means to be Native in the city....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-12 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">12 Dec 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] There There by Tommy Orange" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/there-there/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] I Am Not Famous Anymore by Erin Dorney</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Subtitled, Poems after Shia LaBeouf, this is a short volume of erasure poems lifted from interviews with Shia LaBeouf.  Before this book, I had only seen erasure poetry in poster or postcard format.  Kitch, at it's best.  Also, I have very little patience for poetry.  I've read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and never completely read any of the song-poems that are scattered throughout those volumes. All of this leaves me quite surprised that I really enjoyed this book....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-28 21:15:00 -0500 -0500">28 Nov 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] I Am Not Famous Anymore by Erin Dorney" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/i-am-not-famous-anymore/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] A Guile of Dragons by James Enge</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The book starts in a very promising place.  It offers a map.  All of my favorite fantasy novels have included a map, and this leaves me excited for a tale with some traveling.  The first very short chapter introduces some world building back-story, a short story about gods.  Then, on page 19 (or the third page of story) the novel lands in a fantasy space that I find very overused and tired....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-14 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">14 Nov 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] A Guile of Dragons by James Enge" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/a-guile-of-dragons/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/10/>« Prev</a>
+Every character in this book is a Native American either from or converging on Oakland California.  There is a lot of exploration, especially among the young characters, of what it means to be Native in the city....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-12-12 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">12 Dec 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] There There by Tommy Orange" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/12/there-there/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] I Am Not Famous Anymore by Erin Dorney</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Subtitled, Poems after Shia LaBeouf, this is a short volume of erasure poems lifted from interviews with Shia LaBeouf.  Before this book, I had only seen erasure poetry in poster or postcard format.  Kitch, at it's best.  Also, I have very little patience for poetry.  I've read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and never completely read any of the song-poems that are scattered throughout those volumes. All of this leaves me quite surprised that I really enjoyed this book....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-28 21:15:00 -0500 -0500">28 Nov 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] I Am Not Famous Anymore by Erin Dorney" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/i-am-not-famous-anymore/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/10/>« Prev</a>
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+<span class=logo-switches><button id=theme-toggle accesskey=t title="(Alt + T)"><svg id="moon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M21 12.79A9 9 0 1111.21 3 7 7 0 0021 12.79z"/></svg><svg id="sun" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="5"/><line x1="12" y1="1" x2="12" y2="3"/><line x1="12" y1="21" x2="12" y2="23"/><line x1="4.22" y1="4.22" x2="5.64" y2="5.64"/><line x1="18.36" y1="18.36" x2="19.78" y2="19.78"/><line x1="1" y1="12" x2="3" y2="12"/><line x1="21" y1="12" x2="23" y2="12"/><line x1="4.22" y1="19.78" x2="5.64" y2="18.36"/><line x1="18.36" y1="5.64" x2="19.78" y2="4.22"/></svg></button></span></div><ul id=menu><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/ title=Posts><span>Posts</span></a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/ title=Tags><span>Tags</span></a></li><li><a href=https://home.vollink.com/ title=home.vollink.com><span>home.vollink.com</span></a></li></ul></nav></header><main class=main><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] A Guile of Dragons by James Enge</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The book starts in a very promising place.  It offers a map.  All of my favorite fantasy novels have included a map, and this leaves me excited for a tale with some traveling.  The first very short chapter introduces some world building back-story, a short story about gods.  Then, on page 19 (or the third page of story) the novel lands in a fantasy space that I find very overused and tired....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-14 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">14 Nov 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] A Guile of Dragons by James Enge" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/a-guile-of-dragons/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Google Cardboard is a Terrible Experience</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Every time I ever try to do anything with Google cardboard - apart from the demo itself - the entire thing is a horrible experience.
-Take something that seems like it should be relatively common: VR video.  Go into cardboard (the app), request the VR video channel.  Find a video.  Start that video.  THEN hit the cardboard icon that will put it into cardboard mode.  Then pause it.  Put my phone into the cardboard-compatible viewer and hope it doesn't touch anything on the way in....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-10 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">10 Nov 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google Cardboard is a Terrible Experience" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/google-cardboard-is-a-terrible-experience/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>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....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-31 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">31 Oct 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/david-bowie-a-life/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Tech] Web Server Notes</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>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</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-30 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">30 Oct 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Tech] Web Server Notes" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/tech-web-server-notes/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Next Career Move</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>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....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Oct 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Next Career Move" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/next-career-move/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/11/>« Prev</a>
+Take something that seems like it should be relatively common: VR video.  Go into cardboard (the app), request the VR video channel.  Find a video.  Start that video.  THEN hit the cardboard icon that will put it into cardboard mode.  Then pause it.  Put my phone into the cardboard-compatible viewer and hope it doesn't touch anything on the way in....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-11-10 12:00:00 -0500 -0500">10 Nov 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google Cardboard is a Terrible Experience" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/11/google-cardboard-is-a-terrible-experience/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>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....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-31 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">31 Oct 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/david-bowie-a-life/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Tech] Web Server Notes</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>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</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-30 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">30 Oct 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Tech] Web Server Notes" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/tech-web-server-notes/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/11/>« Prev</a>
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 Seriously, the following is absolutely full of spoilers, and I don't want to hear about it.  Well, for the stories that I actually like, I still try to keep them a little spoiler free, but the first story ... that one I lay out ALL the main points....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book Spoiled] North American Lake Monsters" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/book-spoiled-north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover North American Lake Monsters is a collection of short horror or at least suspense stories.  One short, The Monsters of Heaven, won the Shirley Jackson Award, and this book is on its third printing.
-Several of the stories introduce a monster, but the monster itself is inactive ... in one case, already dead, leaving these stories to be more about the evil we bring with us where the monster is just a catalyst or even excuse for some all-too-human transition into bad behavior....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Oct 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Since this is a non-fiction and educational book, I'm not going to worry about inadvertent spoilers as I usually do with fictional, or even narrative true-stories.  This book does have a narrative flow, better that a lot of the fiction books I've already reviewed, but it is the narrative flow of a documentary, moving from subject to subject, building knowledge.
+Several of the stories introduce a monster, but the monster itself is inactive ... in one case, already dead, leaving these stories to be more about the evil we bring with us where the monster is just a catalyst or even excuse for some all-too-human transition into bad behavior....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-10-03 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">3 Oct 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/10/north-american-lake-monsters/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/12/>« Prev</a>
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+<span class=logo-switches><button id=theme-toggle accesskey=t title="(Alt + T)"><svg id="moon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M21 12.79A9 9 0 1111.21 3 7 7 0 0021 12.79z"/></svg><svg id="sun" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="5"/><line x1="12" y1="1" x2="12" y2="3"/><line x1="12" y1="21" x2="12" y2="23"/><line x1="4.22" y1="4.22" x2="5.64" y2="5.64"/><line x1="18.36" y1="18.36" x2="19.78" y2="19.78"/><line x1="1" y1="12" x2="3" y2="12"/><line x1="21" y1="12" x2="23" y2="12"/><line x1="4.22" y1="19.78" x2="5.64" y2="18.36"/><line x1="18.36" y1="5.64" x2="19.78" y2="4.22"/></svg></button></span></div><ul id=menu><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/ title=Posts><span>Posts</span></a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/ title=Tags><span>Tags</span></a></li><li><a href=https://home.vollink.com/ title=home.vollink.com><span>home.vollink.com</span></a></li></ul></nav></header><main class=main><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Since this is a non-fiction and educational book, I'm not going to worry about inadvertent spoilers as I usually do with fictional, or even narrative true-stories.  This book does have a narrative flow, better that a lot of the fiction books I've already reviewed, but it is the narrative flow of a documentary, moving from subject to subject, building knowledge.
+Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the top science communicators alive today....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-19 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">19 Sep 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Tech/PC] VirtualBox, Windows 7 and a new CPU</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>As I've done from time to time, this blog serves as a bit of a bench-notes of what I did.  However, maybe someone else hits the same problem, and finds my blog via search.
 About a month back, the new nVidia 2080 Ti card was announced.  I decided to hit up eBay to see if anyone was selling off a 1080 Ti, and I was not disappointed in the price drops....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 Sep 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Tech/PC] VirtualBox, Windows 7 and a new CPU" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/tech-pc-virtualbox-windows-7-and-a-new-cpu/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Leia, Princess of Aderaan by Claudia Gray</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover This book is a Star Wars story.  It takes place during Leia Organa's 16th year.  I would like to say that familiarity with the Star Wars universe isn't absolutely necessary, but I cannot be sure of that.  It is, at its base, an exhilarating and sometimes sad, coming of age story, where we see Leia grow from a teen who thinks she's all grown up, to a woman who knows she isn't quite there....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-12 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">12 Sep 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Leia, Princess of Aderaan by Claudia Gray" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/leia-princess-of-aderaan/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Home After Dark by David Small</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Bonus review this week (because this book comes out on the 11th), and I finally figured out what to say about it.
-This tale is, all at once, heartbreaking, terrifying, uncomfortable, troubling with a tiny bit of hopeful mixed in.  Trigger warnings would be helpful here: racism, suicide, sexual predation, sexual bigotry, bullying, alcoholism, violence (both human and animal), parental abandonment, and smoking....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-08 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">8 Sep 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Home After Dark by David Small" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/home-after-dark/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Insurrecto by Gina Apostol</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Even though I'm reviewing an Advance copy, this story is surprisingly nonlinear, and I doubt that will change, though - really - it could.  The book starts, like a 1970s movie, listing the cast of characters in the approximate order in which the characters appear.  It's a story about two people, writing screenplays that are not exactly about the same thing, but are derived from a shared starting point and past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-05 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">5 Sep 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Insurrecto by Gina Apostol" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/insurrecto/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/13/>« Prev</a>
+This tale is, all at once, heartbreaking, terrifying, uncomfortable, troubling with a tiny bit of hopeful mixed in.  Trigger warnings would be helpful here: racism, suicide, sexual predation, sexual bigotry, bullying, alcoholism, violence (both human and animal), parental abandonment, and smoking....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-09-08 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">8 Sep 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Home After Dark by David Small" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/09/home-after-dark/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/13/>« Prev</a>
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 I categorize this book as a Memoir, mostly because it follows the narrative flow of a memoir.  It starts out introducing the reader to Michael Bennett's childhood on a rural farm in the South, into college through the NFL, and discusses his own discovery of the importance of both support and activism on a number of issues of equality....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-29 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">29 Aug 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/things-that-make-white-people-uncomfortable/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Shopping] eBuyer Beware</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I know this.  Read the fine print.  I didn't do that.  The rest is geeky details having to do with rack-mountable servers.
 I have a 12U rack.  Sort-of an end-table next to the couch.  I have two servers.  One of them is happily racked.  The other one is awkwardly sitting sideways across the top of the rack.
 I jumped on eBay a week ago, looking to find the rails I need....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-25 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">25 Aug 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Shopping] eBuyer Beware" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/shopping-ebuyer-beware/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Drawing The Dragon by April Adams</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Imagine the universe of Battlestar Galactica but add elves, trolls and dragons, remove the religious overtones entirely.  The dragons are spaceships, a bit like the galactic whale from Jim Henson's Farscape.  Instead of Battlestar's Cylons, we have Constructs, which are a bit closer to the Nexus of Bladerunner fame.
-Scarlett, Jade and Blue are elite pilots of young dragons on the cruiser known as the Opal Dragon....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-22 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">22 Aug 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Drawing The Dragon by April Adams" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/drawing-the-dragon/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover According to the preface, this book is a carefully researched retelling of surviving stories of the Nordic gods, Odin, Thor, Loki, Freya and others.  Where surviving versions of a story differ, artistic license allows for the best of each to be used. First and foremost, these are Nordic tales.  If you are familiar with these characters from Marvel comics or movies, be prepared to relearn a lot of what you thought you knew....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-15 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">15 Aug 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/norse-mythology/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/14/>« Prev</a>
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 {Gbessa is pronounced "Bessah"} The first book is the story of three characters, each from different places and backgrounds.  Gbessa is exiled from her African village as a witch.  June escapes slavery from a plantation in Virginia....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-08-01 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">1 Aug 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/08/she-would-be-king/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Before I start this:
-I met Jeremy Dale with Kelly by his side on several occasions at various comic book conventions.  I am always on the lookout for a well written all-ages comic book story, and I found Jeremy and Skyward when there were only two issues, self-published and in black and white.  Later, I saw him at a different convention and got issue 3, and he said that issue 4 should be out by NYCC....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-25 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">25 Jul 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Fourteen year-old Doreen Green is back in this second adventure of Squirrel Girl.  Her parents are a little more used to the idea that she has super abilities, but are still nervous parents.  Her Best Human Friend Forever (BHFF), Ana Sofia, is also a friend of Thor, and Agents of SHIELD show up. Her Best Squirrel Friend Forever (BSFF), Tippy Toe, also joins in to help her solve the big mystery....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Jul 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/unbeatable-squirrel-girl-2-fuzzy-2-furious/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/15/>« Prev</a>
+I met Jeremy Dale with Kelly by his side on several occasions at various comic book conventions.  I am always on the lookout for a well written all-ages comic book story, and I found Jeremy and Skyward when there were only two issues, self-published and in black and white.  Later, I saw him at a different convention and got issue 3, and he said that issue 4 should be out by NYCC....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-25 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">25 Jul 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Skyward (Omnibus) by Jeremy and Kelly Dale" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/skyward-omnibus/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/15/>« Prev</a>
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 While the main thread is the journey, the bulk of the story is Stevens' recollection of his past....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-11 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">11 Jul 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/the-remains-of-the-day/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Gone Not too far from where I live is a "turn key fully equipped restaurant" for lease.  The restaurant that was there until a few weeks ago was called Pizzaniste.
-Pizzaniste had really good pizza.  Gourmet, all fresh ingredients, coal fired, whole-wheat crust as an option; even gluten free as an option.  Partly because they also made custom fresh salads, there were some unexpected ingredients: Real anchovies, fresh basil, artichokes, black beans, corn, cilantro, carrots, chickpeas, eggplant, hard-boiled egg, zucchini and two types of olives to choose from (along with all the other things you might expect every pizza place to have)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-07 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">7 Jul 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/food-homage-to-pizza-gone-by/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] eyE Marty by Marty Feldman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Marty Feldman is probably most famous for playing Igor in the 1974 Mel Brooks movie, Young Frankenstein.  He died in 1982, and his autobiography sat in the attic of his widow's home until her death in 2010 when it was discovered by Mark Flanagan.  Flanagan had it transcribed, exactly as it was found, including photo inserts and published without further editing. This book is in desperate need of editing....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-04 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">4 Jul 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] eyE Marty by Marty Feldman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/eye-marty/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Ohio by Stephen Markley</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover This follows four main characters who had gone to high school together back in the early 2000s, and on one night in 2013, all came back home to their hometown of New Canaan, Ohio.
+Pizzaniste had really good pizza.  Gourmet, all fresh ingredients, coal fired, whole-wheat crust as an option; even gluten free as an option.  Partly because they also made custom fresh salads, there were some unexpected ingredients: Real anchovies, fresh basil, artichokes, black beans, corn, cilantro, carrots, chickpeas, eggplant, hard-boiled egg, zucchini and two types of olives to choose from (along with all the other things you might expect every pizza place to have)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-07 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">7 Jul 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Food] Homage to Pizza Gone By" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/food-homage-to-pizza-gone-by/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] eyE Marty by Marty Feldman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover Marty Feldman is probably most famous for playing Igor in the 1974 Mel Brooks movie, Young Frankenstein.  He died in 1982, and his autobiography sat in the attic of his widow's home until her death in 2010 when it was discovered by Mark Flanagan.  Flanagan had it transcribed, exactly as it was found, including photo inserts and published without further editing. This book is in desperate need of editing....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-07-04 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">4 Jul 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] eyE Marty by Marty Feldman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/eye-marty/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/16/>« Prev</a>
-After the prelude, the first section of the book follows Bill Ashcraft, a drifter who is loaded up on drugs.  Appropriate to the character - for the parts where we are following his narrative - the story is jumping back and forth between his past and present with no direct warning in-between, full of non-sequiturs, and frankly - hard to follow....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-27 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">27 Jun 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Ohio by Stephen Markley" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/ohio/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/16/>« Prev</a>
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-Book cover I don't usually read true-crime genre books.  If I had never read the Nabokov fiction, Lolita, I would have never been interested enough in this book to read The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jun 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/the-real-lolita/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Piggy and Pug by Anne Wheaton, Illustrated by Vipin Alex Jacob (No-Spoilers)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is a story about the journey that brings together Pug, who's searching for a new family, and Piggy, who's searching for a new friend.  That text is lifted almost directly from the piggyandpug web site, but it's a short book, so hard to not spoil anything... This is a children's illustrated book, from Monolith Press, 32 pages.  I was at BookExpo at the end of last week, and I got an opportunity to flip through this book with the book's publicist, Susan, watching me intently for reaction....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-06 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">6 Jun 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Piggy and Pug by Anne Wheaton, Illustrated by Vipin Alex Jacob (No-Spoilers)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/piggy-and-pug/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I read this book in only two days, which is way shorter than I usually read, especially a book of 416 pages.  I generally only read on weekends, and usually only for a few hours at a time.  This book really had me hooked from start to finish.  I definitely lost sleep for reading. Will Dando, a struggling New York musician, dreams up 108 predictions.  A line of information and a date for each....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-03 18:09:00.002 -0400 -0400">3 Jun 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Oracle Year by Charles Soule (No-Spoilers)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/oracle-year/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/17/>« Prev</a>
+After the prelude, the first section of the book follows Bill Ashcraft, a drifter who is loaded up on drugs.  Appropriate to the character - for the parts where we are following his narrative - the story is jumping back and forth between his past and present with no direct warning in-between, full of non-sequiturs, and frankly - hard to follow....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-27 12:00:00.001 -0400 -0400">27 Jun 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Ohio by Stephen Markley" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/ohio/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The world building is probably the thing I liked the most about Catching Stars.  There are people who have magical abilities and a larger group of people who don't.  Within magic users, there are different types of magic users.  There are kingdoms and politics, palace intrigue, roving gangs, sailing ships, petty rivalries and fierce prejudices.  Though the story is quite different, the emotional feel of the world is similar to the book Steeplejack by A....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-20 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">20 Jun 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Catching Stars by Cayla Keenan" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/catching-stars/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I got an advanced readers copy of this book from the first day of BookExpo.  It is supposed to be released in September 2018, but that is preliminary, and the date could slip.
+Book cover I don't usually read true-crime genre books.  If I had never read the Nabokov fiction, Lolita, I would have never been interested enough in this book to read The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-13 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">13 Jun 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/the-real-lolita/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] Piggy and Pug by Anne Wheaton, Illustrated by Vipin Alex Jacob (No-Spoilers)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is a story about the journey that brings together Pug, who's searching for a new family, and Piggy, who's searching for a new friend.  That text is lifted almost directly from the piggyandpug web site, but it's a short book, so hard to not spoil anything... This is a children's illustrated book, from Monolith Press, 32 pages.  I was at BookExpo at the end of last week, and I got an opportunity to flip through this book with the book's publicist, Susan, watching me intently for reaction....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-06-06 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">6 Jun 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] Piggy and Pug by Anne Wheaton, Illustrated by Vipin Alex Jacob (No-Spoilers)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/06/piggy-and-pug/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/17/>« Prev</a>
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 15 days without heat.  25 days to complete a delayed move, because we really couldn't live without heat.  History and some details below.
 Jen and I moved to New York in July of 2011, and we've lived in the same apartment ever since.  A two bedroom, one bath apartment that is quite comfortable in a relatively well maintained building in the Bay Ridge neighborhood in Brooklyn....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2018-01-22 08:30:00 -0500 -0500">22 Jan 2018</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The Agony of No Heat" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/01/the-agony-of-no-heat/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Agile Development on Infrastructure</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>After a friend asked about using agile, I started thinking about the skateboard to car drawing.  The author of this, Henrik Kniberg, wrote a really good blog breaking this down, called Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product).  This model is absolutely important, and makes a very good case for going about building something brand new.
 I've spent most of my post-Agile time doing infrastructure projects.  I'm not building a product for end-users....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2017-10-21 13:43:00.002 -0400 -0400">21 Oct 2017</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Agile Development on Infrastructure" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2017/10/agile-development-on-infrastructure/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Tired of Panic - Paris Climate Accord Edition</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>The President of the US, Donald Trump, has decided to push for the US to leave the Paris Climate Accord.  The world is imploding!  Well, looking at Twitter it seems the world is imploding.
 There are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that the world will drown in 3, 2...
-There are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that we are aligned with Syria by doing this.  (There are those that mention Nicaragua, but that country's non-participation is much more complicated)....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2017-06-03 00:40:00 -0400 -0400">3 Jun 2017</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Tired of Panic - Paris Climate Accord Edition" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2017/06/tired-of-panic-paris-climate-accord-edition/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Trump Boasts of Power Not Attraction</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Locker room talk, no it isn't necessarily a locker room.  In any place where one is surrounded by only peers, language and boasts can be sometimes be observed.  The braggadocio is always trying to make themselves seem better. In the context of sexual liaisons here are some samples of things I have heard: She was all over me She couldn’t keep her hands off me I leaned in to ask her something and she just started kissing me She couldn’t resist me...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2016-10-15 10:42:00 -0400 -0400">15 Oct 2016</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Trump Boasts of Power Not Attraction" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2016/10/trump-boasts-of-power-not-attraction/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/18/>« Prev</a>
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+Then, I looked around, and found hundreds of blogs by folks who wrote down the bare basics of what it takes to write an RPM spec file, or only the things that THAT PERSON needed for THAT PROJECT....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-06-06 22:50:12.729 -0400 -0400">6 Jun 2022</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to RPM Spec" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/06/rpm-spec/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Switching This Blog to Self Hosting</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Long story.
 History Since 2009, I have been using a Google product called G Suite, which has since been renamed to Google Apps for Domains, and most recently renamed to Google Workspace.
 This service was always free, for me, as I signed up before the free-tier was cancelled in December of 2012. I even bought my wife, Jen, a domain and set is up on G Suite before then (neiher of us could remember which year), as we were just dating at the time....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-28 15:39:33 -0400 -0400">28 May 2022</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Switching This Blog to Self Hosting" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/switch-to-self-host/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Terminal Colors with Highlight.js</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is another post where I’m working on Hugo capabilities. This time, though, I’m mostly dealing with expanding highlight.js, which is the highlighting tool used by the PaperMod theme.
 Terminal in color This shows my terminal prompt in approximately the colors that I see.
 [92mgvollink@javavm[0m [GIT: (✅) [92mmaster[0m]:0 [36m🏠/src/web/hugo-blog[m$ The above, in source, has embedded ANSI escape codes. To do this I created a language called terminal for highlight.js and an accompanying PlugIn....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-25 20:45:29 -0400 -0400">25 May 2022</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Terminal Colors with Highlight.js" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/hugo-term-color/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Test: Using a Docker image to Build This Blog</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I use Docker to run several microservices across my websites. Generally, they are standalone tools and demonstrations, mostly made to teach myself how to get these things done in microservices.
-I recently came across the concept of utility containers. Up to now, all the containers I run are meant to run all the time, and be easily replaced by spinning up a replacement container. Utility containers, on the other hand, are literally containers that hold the bits needed to process input data into output data, do that process, then exit....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-21 15:34:49 -0400 -0400">21 May 2022</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Test: Using a Docker image to Build This Blog" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/test-docker-blog/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Trying Hugo</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This is a post where I’m literally doing nothing but testing hugo to see if it will work for what I need.
+I recently came across the concept of utility containers. Up to now, all the containers I run are meant to run all the time, and be easily replaced by spinning up a replacement container. Utility containers, on the other hand, are literally containers that hold the bits needed to process input data into output data, do that process, then exit....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2022-05-21 15:34:49 -0400 -0400">21 May 2022</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Test: Using a Docker image to Build This Blog" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2022/05/test-docker-blog/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/>« Prev</a>
-Turns out, it works pretty well. Here are some features I’m likely to use.
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 Someone said this to me who had heard the same from someone else.  This comes from about three years ago, and was said in the context of my then current role (having moved from process and supervisory management to direct people management).  It bothered me.
 I first got to be in management, some 20 years ago....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2016-10-14 18:21:00 -0400 -0400">14 Oct 2016</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Misplaced Pride - and Getting Over It" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2016/10/misplaced-pride-and-getting-over-it/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>BLOG: The Sad State of 3D on a PC</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This month, I built myself a new gaming PC, and decided to spend just a little extra money for the nVidia 3D Vision 2 package with a pair of shutter glasses and a USB controlled IR timing transmitter.  What I'm talking about here is PC gaming in stereoscopic 3D.  This is gaming that not only depicts a 3D play environment, but also looks 3D to the player's eyes.
 I remember that Descent came out in 1995, and it had support for a virtual reality headset called the Forte VFX-1....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-11-14 18:57:00.001 -0500 -0500">14 Nov 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;6 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to BLOG: The Sad State of 3D on a PC" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/11/blog-the-sad-state-of-3d-on-a-pc/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] Authban : 4 Years Later</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Four years ago, I wrote about a script that I had been working on called Authban (though I didn't name it at the time):
 http://blog.vollink.com/2011/09/geek-attack-vectors-and-twitter.html
-I first started running a custom script to block IP addresses that tried too many times to login to ssh back in 2010.  At the time, the script (and my home web host) was running on an Ubuntu virtual server.  The name, Authban, surfaced in early 2011, as I organized the script to do more than just block ssh....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-09-16 18:30:00 -0400 -0400">16 Sep 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] Authban : 4 Years Later" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/09/geek-authban-4-years-later/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>NYCC : Horrible Shopping Experience</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I already have tickets for two other conventions this year, but NYCC is the big one that happens in the city where I live and work. I know in the last few years tickets have been harder and harder to get, and I figured my chances were not going to be very good.
+I first started running a custom script to block IP addresses that tried too many times to login to ssh back in 2010.  At the time, the script (and my home web host) was running on an Ubuntu virtual server.  The name, Authban, surfaced in early 2011, as I organized the script to do more than just block ssh....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-09-16 18:30:00 -0400 -0400">16 Sep 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] Authban : 4 Years Later" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/09/geek-authban-4-years-later/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/19/>« Prev</a>
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+If this is too long one can safely scroll down to the Conclusion at the bottom.
+I tried to buy tickets to NYCC the minute they went on sale....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-05-14 10:06:00 -0400 -0400">14 May 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to NYCC : Horrible Shopping Experience" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/05/nycc-horrible-shopping-experience/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Manhattan Flagship Stores Are Not For Me</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Manhattan shopping.  In the story below, I'm NOT saying the brand or the nam e of the store.  I don't want to throw rage at one tiny example of something that ex i sts throughout Manhattan, especially at the brand-name stores that call themsel v es A Flagship Store.                                                                               There are multiple stores in Manhattan that are not externally identified as Fla g ship but are....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-02-01 22:57:00.003 -0500 -0500">1 Feb 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;6 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Manhattan Flagship Stores Are Not For Me" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/02/manhattan-flagship-stores-are-not-for-me/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Late Night Meeting ... Restless</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I'm not sure who the audience for this is supposed to be.  Just like the blog entry I left about adding a battery holder to my 1990s era MIDI workstation, I think it's mostly just a sounding board, and notebook for myself.  Maybe some of the people who work on this project will read this, maybe not.  Anyway, it's a lot of words, and not a lot of specifics.
 Just got off a meeting, kicking off the third phase of a project that I've been working on for 22 months....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-01-28 00:26:00 -0500 -0500">28 Jan 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Late Night Meeting ... Restless" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/01/late-night-meeting-restless/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Brooklyn Museum</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Yesterday, Jen and I went to the Brooklyn Museum to see the Killer Heels exhibition.  But also to see some of the rest of the Museum.
-Source: Wikipedia Neither of us had been there before, so had no idea what to expect.  First, I have to say that I was a little confused at first, then impressed.  Walking up to the building, I'm staring at this strange ultra-modern entrance where in any other museum, I'd expect to see a grand stairway....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-01-26 15:05:00.003 -0500 -0500">26 Jan 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Brooklyn Museum" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/01/brooklyn-museum/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Electronics Mod: Ensoniq KS-32</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>A long, long time ago, I obtained a Midi Workstation, called an Ensoniq KS-32.  I'm still thankful for the great deal I got on it.  I'm also greatful that the guy I bought it from didn't break my leg, since I didn't finish paying that really good price for 3 years.  Despite some harrowing times (orange juice dumped into it), it still functions to this day.
+Source: Wikipedia Neither of us had been there before, so had no idea what to expect.  First, I have to say that I was a little confused at first, then impressed.  Walking up to the building, I'm staring at this strange ultra-modern entrance where in any other museum, I'd expect to see a grand stairway....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2015-01-26 15:05:00.003 -0500 -0500">26 Jan 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Brooklyn Museum" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2015/01/brooklyn-museum/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/20/>« Prev</a>
-One note about the KS-32, is that the settings are stored on-board in RAM, or Random Access Memory....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-10-23 00:47:00.001 -0400 -0400">23 Oct 2014</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Electronics Mod: Ensoniq KS-32" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/10/electronics-mod-ensoniq-ks-32/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/20/>« Prev</a>
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+One note about the KS-32, is that the settings are stored on-board in RAM, or Random Access Memory....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-10-23 00:47:00.001 -0400 -0400">23 Oct 2014</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Electronics Mod: Ensoniq KS-32" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/10/electronics-mod-ensoniq-ks-32/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Professional Autobiography</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>What is a personal blog post if it isn't a snippet of autobiography anyway, right?  I've written about parts of this for my old web site (the one hosted at home).  I'm keeping this professional.  It is likely that I'll post this again at some distant point in the future, but with more detail.
 For most of my professional life, I've been a computer programmer or computer administrator.  This is my story....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-07-21 18:35:00.002 -0400 -0400">21 Jul 2014</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;11 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Professional Autobiography" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/07/professional-autobiography/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Team Building Tips for Managers from Agile</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I wrote the following, originally, for an ideas post at work.  Then I cleaned it up a little to take out some "my company" specific examples and posted it on Linked-In.
 Then I remembered that I don't post enough content to my blog anymore, so here's a post with a link to a post.
 https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140701163145-41328787-team-building-tips-for-managers-from-agile?trk=mp-reader-card</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-07-03 16:38:00.002 -0400 -0400">3 Jul 2014</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Team Building Tips for Managers from Agile" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/07/team-building-tips-for-managers-from-agile/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Goodbye to Jenn Gabriel-Powell</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I'm in a hotel in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom.  I'm in the UK on a four week business trip.  I have exactly one friend in Devon who is not from work, and I had plans to hang out with her, and meet her husband today.
 I guess I should say that I had one friend in Devon who is not from work.
-Jenn Gabriel-Powell had an accident yesterday, suffered a subdural hematoma, and never recovered....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2014-03-30 14:56:00.002 -0400 -0400">30 Mar 2014</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Goodbye to Jenn Gabriel-Powell" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2014/03/goodbye-to-jenn-gabriel-powell/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Stone, Surgery and Recovery</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>This tale starts in late June with extreme abdominal pain that, for at least four hours, I was convinced was just severe gas pain.  I was sweating and shaking and curled up in a ball, and eventually asked Jen to get me to the emergency room.  Well, x-rays, urine samples, and a contrast CAT scan later, and I was told that I had a Kidney stone descending into my bladder.  That was 4mmx2mm, and too small for them to try to do anything specifically for....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-10-21 18:00:00 -0400 -0400">21 Oct 2013</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;6 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Stone, Surgery and Recovery" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/10/stone-surgery-and-recovery/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/21/>« Prev</a>
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 I have, since at least 1999, worked with companies that are internationally distributed.  This means, I regularly have correspondence with people in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Poland, Singapore and the United Kingdom.  Some of these folks, I have become friends with, so I have had personal correspondence with people in these countries, both paper and electronic....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-07-03 21:13:00.001 -0400 -0400">3 Jul 2013</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to NSA and Security, Again" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/07/nsa-and-security-again/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
-The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-07-02 13:18:00 -0400 -0400">2 Jul 2013</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/07/fourth-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>No Project Without A Tweet</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>You should be able to describe your business project in 140 characters or less. I don't have more time than that.   -- @GAVollink I've been following along with a pilot training program that was recently launched where I work.  One section of it is on a project definition framework.  I have never liked this framework, and only today - while responding to the trainer on another inquiry, did I finally understand why....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-02-22 13:25:00.003 -0500 -0500">22 Feb 2013</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to No Project Without A Tweet" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/02/no-project-without-a-tweet/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Syntaur Doing It Right</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I have an Ensoniq KS-32 keyboard that was released 20 years ago.  I think that mine is only 17 years old, though (I'm the third owner, but I have owned it since 1998).  Anyway, it's a great board, and it has treated me very well for a very long time.
+The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-07-02 13:18:00 -0400 -0400">2 Jul 2013</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/07/fourth-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>No Project Without A Tweet</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>You should be able to describe your business project in 140 characters or less. I don't have more time than that.   -- @GAVollink I've been following along with a pilot training program that was recently launched where I work.  One section of it is on a project definition framework.  I have never liked this framework, and only today - while responding to the trainer on another inquiry, did I finally understand why....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2013-02-22 13:25:00.003 -0500 -0500">22 Feb 2013</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to No Project Without A Tweet" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2013/02/no-project-without-a-tweet/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/22/>« Prev</a>
-There had been a low battery warning for, probably the last 10 years or so.  My response was to just never turn it off, which worked until I had to turn it off for a while....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-10-13 01:52:00.001 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2012</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Syntaur Doing It Right" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/10/syntaur-doing-it-right/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/22/>« Prev</a>
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+<span class=logo-switches><button id=theme-toggle accesskey=t title="(Alt + T)"><svg id="moon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M21 12.79A9 9 0 1111.21 3 7 7 0 0021 12.79z"/></svg><svg id="sun" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="5"/><line x1="12" y1="1" x2="12" y2="3"/><line x1="12" y1="21" x2="12" y2="23"/><line x1="4.22" y1="4.22" x2="5.64" y2="5.64"/><line x1="18.36" y1="18.36" x2="19.78" y2="19.78"/><line x1="1" y1="12" x2="3" y2="12"/><line x1="21" y1="12" x2="23" y2="12"/><line x1="4.22" y1="19.78" x2="5.64" y2="18.36"/><line x1="18.36" y1="5.64" x2="19.78" y2="4.22"/></svg></button></span></div><ul id=menu><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/ title=Posts><span>Posts</span></a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/ title=Tags><span>Tags</span></a></li><li><a href=https://home.vollink.com/ title=home.vollink.com><span>home.vollink.com</span></a></li></ul></nav></header><main class=main><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Syntaur Doing It Right</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I have an Ensoniq KS-32 keyboard that was released 20 years ago.  I think that mine is only 17 years old, though (I'm the third owner, but I have owned it since 1998).  Anyway, it's a great board, and it has treated me very well for a very long time.
-I was thinking that it would be awesome to sign up for your magazine for a year, try it out.  So, I went to your site, and started to fill out the information that you asked.  When it came to pay you, though, you have told me that by signing up now, I agree that you'll AUTOMATICALLY bill me again, every year, from now until I actually remember to go out of my way to cancel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-04-30 13:18:00 -0400 -0400">30 Apr 2012</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to I Did NOT Subscribe, and Why" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/04/i-did-not-subscribe-and-why/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>SOPA/PIPA (Protect IP)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I am your constituent and I never miss a vote.  I want to make clear, that there are already laws and international treaties in place to protect from online piracy.  If those are not working, using Chinese style censorship methods to block foreign sites makes me wonder what happened to freedom, and I will remember those in congress who agreed with a minority of struggling entertainment concerns that Chinese style internet totalitarianism is the best answer....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-01-18 10:56:00 -0500 -0500">18 Jan 2012</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SOPA/PIPA (Protect IP)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/01/sopa-pipa-protect-ip/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Xerox Alto Mouse (1973) The computer mouse has been a basic part of computing for about 20 years now (25 if you were a Mac early-adopter, and even longer if you are a Xerox Alto power-user).  Up until recently, innovations with mouses have been about adding more buttons, and scroll wheels.  Now, with Smart-Phones becoming more and more popular, things like multi-touch and gestures are being added too....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 22:38:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-the-ubiquitous-computer-mouse/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] Attack Vectors and Twitter</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I wrote a script some time ago, that basically parsed the auth logs on my web server looking for IP addresses that try, and fail, to log in, multiple times.  Over the years, I've continued to expand what it does, and what it could do. At first, it would note something, and send me an e-mail, and I'd get to it, and it would continue to e-mail me once every hour until I did....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 01:15:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] Attack Vectors and Twitter" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-attack-vectors-and-twitter/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/23/>« Prev</a>
+There had been a low battery warning for, probably the last 10 years or so.  My response was to just never turn it off, which worked until I had to turn it off for a while....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-10-13 01:52:00.001 -0400 -0400">13 Oct 2012</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Syntaur Doing It Right" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/10/syntaur-doing-it-right/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>I Did NOT Subscribe, and Why</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Dear magazine publisher.
+I was thinking that it would be awesome to sign up for your magazine for a year, try it out.  So, I went to your site, and started to fill out the information that you asked.  When it came to pay you, though, you have told me that by signing up now, I agree that you'll AUTOMATICALLY bill me again, every year, from now until I actually remember to go out of my way to cancel....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-04-30 13:18:00 -0400 -0400">30 Apr 2012</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to I Did NOT Subscribe, and Why" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/04/i-did-not-subscribe-and-why/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>SOPA/PIPA (Protect IP)</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I am your constituent and I never miss a vote.  I want to make clear, that there are already laws and international treaties in place to protect from online piracy.  If those are not working, using Chinese style censorship methods to block foreign sites makes me wonder what happened to freedom, and I will remember those in congress who agreed with a minority of struggling entertainment concerns that Chinese style internet totalitarianism is the best answer....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2012-01-18 10:56:00 -0500 -0500">18 Jan 2012</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to SOPA/PIPA (Protect IP)" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2012/01/sopa-pipa-protect-ip/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Xerox Alto Mouse (1973) The computer mouse has been a basic part of computing for about 20 years now (25 if you were a Mac early-adopter, and even longer if you are a Xerox Alto power-user).  Up until recently, innovations with mouses have been about adding more buttons, and scroll wheels.  Now, with Smart-Phones becoming more and more popular, things like multi-touch and gestures are being added too....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 22:38:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] The Ubiquitous Computer Mouse" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-the-ubiquitous-computer-mouse/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/23/>« Prev</a>
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+<span class=logo-switches><button id=theme-toggle accesskey=t title="(Alt + T)"><svg id="moon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path d="M21 12.79A9 9 0 1111.21 3 7 7 0 0021 12.79z"/></svg><svg id="sun" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="5"/><line x1="12" y1="1" x2="12" y2="3"/><line x1="12" y1="21" x2="12" y2="23"/><line x1="4.22" y1="4.22" x2="5.64" y2="5.64"/><line x1="18.36" y1="18.36" x2="19.78" y2="19.78"/><line x1="1" y1="12" x2="3" y2="12"/><line x1="21" y1="12" x2="23" y2="12"/><line x1="4.22" y1="19.78" x2="5.64" y2="18.36"/><line x1="18.36" y1="5.64" x2="19.78" y2="4.22"/></svg></button></span></div><ul id=menu><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/ title=Posts><span>Posts</span></a></li><li><a href=https://blog.vollink.com/tags/ title=Tags><span>Tags</span></a></li><li><a href=https://home.vollink.com/ title=home.vollink.com><span>home.vollink.com</span></a></li></ul></nav></header><main class=main><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Geek] Attack Vectors and Twitter</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I wrote a script some time ago, that basically parsed the auth logs on my web server looking for IP addresses that try, and fail, to log in, multiple times.  Over the years, I've continued to expand what it does, and what it could do. At first, it would note something, and send me an e-mail, and I'd get to it, and it would continue to e-mail me once every hour until I did....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-09-17 01:15:00 -0400 -0400">17 Sep 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Geek] Attack Vectors and Twitter" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/09/geek-attack-vectors-and-twitter/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>About Times Square</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I've been working at the office on Times Square (xSq) for a little less than 2 months now.
 Times Square is one of the street level places that is recognizable as obviously being in New York, and not some other city.  As such, people who come to visit New York, at least for the first few times, feel that they must visit this space.
 To someone who needs to go through Times Square multiple times per day, tourists are painful, literally....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-08-28 15:15:00.001 -0400 -0400">28 Aug 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to About Times Square" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/08/about-times-square/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Earthquake</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>New York City - Midtown
 On Tuesday morning, Jen and I were both in the office and something seemed strange.
 If you've ever been in the upper floors of a tall building during sustained winds, you can feel the building swaying. It felt just like that.  Jen says, "Is the building moving?"  "Yes," as I realize that I shouldn't feel wind movement from the third floor.  Still not really sure what's going on, I say, "...</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-08-24 08:41:00 -0400 -0400">24 Aug 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Earthquake" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/08/earthquake/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Google+ or Not</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Thanks for the invites.  I have a small collection now.
 I can't use Google+, and here's why.
 I use Google Apps for Domains.  This allows me to do all sorts of things with vollink.com.  However, Google hasn't opened Google+ up for domains accounts yet.
-I /could/ use a Google account that isn't already associated with my domains account.  However, with a domains account, Google tracks my login across the browser, which means to use a different Google account, I either have to use a different browser for the other account, or I would have to log out of all Google services first....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-07-23 18:08:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google+ or Not" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/07/google-or-not/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Government Bail Out vs. Shut Down</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>It looks like we're going to have a Newt Gingrich style government shut-down this weekend.  A friend of mine, who will be affected by this if it happens, mentioned that it seems like this is fall-out for the bail-outs.
+I /could/ use a Google account that isn't already associated with my domains account.  However, with a domains account, Google tracks my login across the browser, which means to use a different Google account, I either have to use a different browser for the other account, or I would have to log out of all Google services first....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-07-23 18:08:00 -0400 -0400">23 Jul 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Google+ or Not" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/07/google-or-not/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/24/>« Prev</a>
-I've heard various things about the Government bail-outs of banks, auto makers and mortgages.  So, I did a quick search, and found a really great article over at ProPublica.  This is a list of who still has money, and who paid money back already....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-04-08 11:05:00 -0400 -0400">8 Apr 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Government Bail Out vs. Shut Down" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/04/government-bail-out-vs-shut-down/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/24/>« Prev</a>
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+I've heard various things about the Government bail-outs of banks, auto makers and mortgages.  So, I did a quick search, and found a really great article over at ProPublica.  This is a list of who still has money, and who paid money back already....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-04-08 11:05:00 -0400 -0400">8 Apr 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Government Bail Out vs. Shut Down" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/04/government-bail-out-vs-shut-down/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Go Read Joe</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Joe Klein is usually liberal, and always hopes to find the best in people, and frankly, I think we could all learn from people like him. Last night, I read an article in Time Magazine by him called, Palestinian People Power (annoyingly, Time changes the article titles on-line).
 It talks about how a small, and steadily growing group of young activists in the Palestinian (Isreali Occupied) regions of Isreal are working towards political goals by using peaceful protests, sit-in vigils, and demonstrations....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-04-08 10:30:00 -0400 -0400">8 Apr 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Go Read Joe" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/04/go-read-joe/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>The World vs America: Why the USA is Easy to Hate</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Because of the places I've worked, and the jobs I have had while at those places, I've been able to travel to other countries.  While in these places, I've had countless hours of conversations with people from those places, most of whom have never traveled outside of their own countries.  These conversations, frequently, are about America.
-Today's blog started with me reading something that someone in the UK posted online after a rock concert....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-03-19 21:02:00 -0400 -0400">19 Mar 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;8 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The World vs America: Why the USA is Easy to Hate" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/03/the-world-vs-america-why-the-usa-is-easy-to-hate/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>From Top Down to Agility</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I am a Technical Team Leader.  I have some developers reporting to me.  So let me say this; Regulated, Regimented development.  That's what I try to use most of the time.  Yes, really.  It is extremely important to start a project with good specifications.  First, this means that I have had several conversations with my customers about what they are expecting to get out of the project, and how they expect to interact with it before anybody starts coding....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-01-24 18:00:00.005 -0500 -0500">24 Jan 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to From Top Down to Agility" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/from-top-down-to-agility/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>Spreading the Word For Simon</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Please help make 2011 Simon's year.
+Today's blog started with me reading something that someone in the UK posted online after a rock concert....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-03-19 21:02:00 -0400 -0400">19 Mar 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;8 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to The World vs America: Why the USA is Easy to Hate" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/03/the-world-vs-america-why-the-usa-is-easy-to-hate/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>From Top Down to Agility</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>I am a Technical Team Leader.  I have some developers reporting to me.  So let me say this; Regulated, Regimented development.  That's what I try to use most of the time.  Yes, really.  It is extremely important to start a project with good specifications.  First, this means that I have had several conversations with my customers about what they are expecting to get out of the project, and how they expect to interact with it before anybody starts coding....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-01-24 18:00:00.005 -0500 -0500">24 Jan 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to From Top Down to Agility" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/from-top-down-to-agility/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/25/>« Prev</a>
-You know all those e-mails that get sent around with some heart-felt story about some child who is in dire need, and if you just forward the e-mail, you could help save that child's life?  Well, the overwhelming majority of those e-mails don't actually have a link that they want you to send along with that e-mail.  A link where people who actually have the means can drop a dollar, or twenty....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2011-01-06 10:53:00 -0500 -0500">6 Jan 2011</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Spreading the Word For Simon" href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2011/01/spreading-the-word-for-simon/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.com/page/25/>« Prev</a>
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