Category Archives: KellyBlog

Can you hear me now?

I ate too much last night. My wife had ‘girls night out’ which left me unsupervised as I made my dinner.
I powered through an entire package of Johnsonville Brats. Cause and effect… I was wide awake at 2AM, bloated as a poisoned pup. Uffda!
And, yes. It was worth it.
“What the hell”, says me? Good time [...]

Apache Directory Indexing

Sometimes a problem persists long enough—is an irritant long enough—that I’ll burn an entire Sunday morning simply out of spite. Today’s irrational time-waste went to solving “Directory index forbidden by Options directive.”

[marmaduke ~] $ cat /var/log/httpd/error_log \
| grep ‘\[error\]‘ \
| head -1
[Sun Dec 06 09:25:05 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.29]↩
Directory index forbidden by Options [...]

Unicode Backlash

Yesterday, I stumbled upon a blog that made me laugh. The truth be told, I have a snarky side—my evil twin, if you will. I keep it in check. Mostly. Some of you who will understand. Some of you won’t. It’s a Gemini thing.
My twin is fun but good luck putting it back in its [...]

Speech Reference Materials

Below are several resources I used in writing a speech delivered this morning for Early Risers Toastmasters entitled, “Feedback Loops in Personal Practices.” For those who were unable to attend, the talk focused on somatic learning and the importance of personal practices. (I am interested in personal practices as access to metaprogramming.) Feedback loops are [...]

Blue Light

Rolling Stone reports that Mazzy Star’s “Sandoval confirms her [sic] and her bandmate David Roback haven’t called it quits and they are still working on their anticipated fourth album. But she declines to give many specifics. ‘It’s true we’re still together,’ she says. ‘We’re almost finished [with the record]. But I have no idea what [...]

Mandarin Wednesday I

I finished Mandarin Tuesday III this past Spring. There’s a lot going on at work and I must admit, I didn’t put in the same level of effort as I showed in Mandarin I and II. I believe anyone who is learning a foreign langauge will concur, class is a bitch when you’ve not put [...]