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I’d like to find better strings for my sopranino ukulele, which is a bit smaller than the usual soprano ukulele. With the soprano strings currently on it, if I use the most common ukulele tuning...
View ArticleUpdate on ukulele strings
I solved my sopranino string problem more simply than I expected – I just put new strings on it. Regular soprano strings, Aquila. And it sounds great, with the typical ukulele GCEA tuning! That was a...
View ArticleRebooting the blog
I plan to try “rebooting” this blog, posting something every day or so. We’ll see how that goes…
View ArticleLong trip in Miata
I just finished my first long trip in my Miata. I’m glad I did it. I got to show off the car to my family, and my Dad really enjoyed being driven around town with the top down. Still, 9 hours at a time...
View ArticleOn American Exceptionalism | Popehat
“Nearly two hundred and fifty years ago, revolutionaries said this: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain...
View ArticleIBM and forced ranking
I left my job at IBM more than two years ago. Years before that, I had concluded that those running IBM no longer valued the employees. When I started, the company was proud to steer their relationship...
View ArticleTrying out IFTTT
I’m trying out If This Then That, or IFTTT (shouldn’t that be ITTT?). If all goes well, when this post is published, it’ll send a tweet and a facebook status update for me. Fingers crossed…
View ArticleBlog recommendation: rachelbythebay
http://rachelbythebay.com/ Of particular interest to system administrators, and anyone interested in the relationship between technology companies and their employees.
View ArticleLane Motor Museum
While I was visiting my folks in Nashville last week, I took a trip to the Lane Motor Museum. This is a car museum, specializing in European cars, many of which I’d never heard of. They’ve got some...
View ArticleWriting my own podcatcher
Since I started moving off of Mac OS X, I’ve been looking for a replacement for iTunes for downloading my podcasts. I wanted something that would run on Linux, and either be fairly configurable or...
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