“The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility”

Posted on 1st August 2011 by willo

I recently finished reading Stewart Brand‘s book “The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility“.  I saw it by change while perusing Waltham‘s Public Library, knew of Stewart’s work with The Clock of the Long Now and the Long Now Foundation‘s Seminars About Long-term Thinking, and decided to give it a read.

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Strange New England Tornadic Weather

Posted on 2nd June 2011 by willo

New England just got pummeled last night by a series of rare storms.  Two confirmed tornadoes hit Springfield, Massachusetts area, with many unconfirmed reports from Massachusetts and Maine.

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Debian 6.0 Upgrade; Apache WebDAV Woes

Posted on 1st April 2011 by willo

A bit ago, the Debian project announced their 6.0 release of their GNU/Linux distribution.

I upgraded recently, and all went smoothly.  The one difficulty was that my WebDAV shares through Apache were no longer able to write to the file-system.  Turns out I wasn’t the only one who experienced this and the fix was very simple.

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Site Upgrade to WordPress 3.0

Posted on 20th June 2010 by willo

I finally upgraded to WordPress 3.0, now that the release is out of beta.

After the initial file upgrading, I was greeted with a completely blank screen and the underlying HTML file was completely empty.

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