It’s free again!

By Chris | August 31, 2013 |

For the entire Labor Day weekend, you can get my mini-book for free. Grab a copy here. And please tell everyone you know. Like it here. If you already have a copy, how about a review?

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As loud as I like my music…

By Chris | August 31, 2013 |

If you happened to be driving on I-25 Southbound in Denver yesterday around 4:15pm and saw a silver Ford Flex piloted by a large goateed man with a lot of hair, yes that was Barry Manilow blasting through 12 speakers with 390 watts of oomph. And yes, Barry was singing about Lola and Rico at…

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Am I old or just sensible?

By Chris | August 26, 2013 |

I heard some controversy about Miley Cyrus “twerking” last night on some irrelevant awards show I’ve never seen. I don’t know what twerking is. Do I want to know what it is? Probably not. [Looks up “twerking” on the interwebs. Finds Wikipedia entry.] Yep, I was right. This is not something I needed to know.…

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Spam Shift

By Chris | August 23, 2013 |

My poor email box. It’s constantly getting bombarded with messages from all sorts of sketchy companies touting products I don’t need or want. The amount of spam I get increases and decreases seemingly at random. Despite  having rather strict filters on my email account, lots of spam gets through. I’m not happy about that but…

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Word processing and piano superstars

By Chris | August 20, 2013 |

I use Linux at work. The window manager I use has a handy search function. I simply type the name of the program I want to use and a list of matches comes up. My preferred word processor is a part of the Free LibreOffice suite. It’s called “Writer”, so every time I need to…

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