Blog
I have kept this blog since 2007. Most of it is book reviews and notes on open source software — Linux and Ubuntu especially — with the occasional post on music, language, or whatever else held my attention. The posts run newest first, and older ones stay up as they were written.
- The Insider’s Guide to Technical Writing, 2nd Edition
- Racket Programming the Fun Way
- Monitoring my UPS with Grafana Cloud
- Ubuntu Linux Unleashed 2021
- Thoughts on Turning 50
- The Game is Rigged
- The Cartoon Introduction to Calculus
- Amazing Decisions: The Illustrated Guide to Improving Business Deals and Family Meals
- Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight
- Astronomy for Kids
- The Manga Guide to Cryptography
- Cracking Codes with Python
- I wrote this in 1985
- Article on Opensource.com
- Attacking Network Protocols
- Learn Java the Easy Way
- A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, Fourth Edition
- Then She was Born
- Manga Art
- Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery
- Fewer Reviews from Me
- The Official Ubuntu Book, ninth edition
- Fighting Shadows
- Two Python Books
- Slashdot Effect
- The Manga Guide to Physiology
- An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language
- Ubuntu Unleashed 2016
- The Maker’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
- Junkyard Jam Band
- The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy
- How Software Works
- How Linux Works
- Teach Your Kids to Code
- Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War
- The GNU Make Book
- Build an HTML5 Game
- The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy
- Learn to Program with Minecraft Plugins
- Fire in the Valley, Third Edition
- Ubuntu Books I Wrote in 2014
- The LEGO Neighborhood Book
- Linux Distro for Kids?
- Seeing from Another Point of View
- Every Page is Page One
- Ubuntu Planet Feed Changed
- American Nations
- The LEGO Adventure Book, Volume 2
- Black Friday
- Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
- HTML 5 Unleashed
- Survive! Inside the Human Body
- Diabetes and Me
- Computers as Theatre Second Edition
- Matt Helmke’s Walk Across Nevada
- The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics
- Legends of the Blues
- Android Programming Unleashed
- Watch the Seasons Change
- Beautiful LEGO
- DevOps Troubleshooting
- The LEGO Build-It Book: Amazing Vehicles
- The Healthy Programmer
- Nginx HTTP Server, Second Edition
- Realm of Racket
- Day Against DRM at O’Reilly Media
- Mastering NGINX
- Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!
- Land of Lisp
- A Chance Encounter with Mr. Darcy’s Progenitor
- Python for Kids
- LEGO books for all
- Ubuntu on a Mac
- Advent 2012, justice, and God stuff
- Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition
- Podcast about The Official Ubuntu Book, 7th edition
- Economix: How Our Economy Works
- Are All Book Reviews Positive?
- Super Scratch Programming Adventure!
- Think Like a Programmer
- Who is Valuable?
- The Insider’s Guide to Technical Writing
- Reactive or Intentional?
- The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra
- Seven Databases in Seven Weeks
- More reviews coming soon
- Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate
- The Official Ubuntu Book, seventh edition
- VMware Cookbook, second edition
- Fixing a broken Ubuntu upgrade
- Style Guides
- I cut the rest off
- Ubuntu Unleashed 2012 Edition
- Pretty URL for My Amazon Author Page
- I cut my hair for cancer
- Idea I don’t have time to pursue
- Reading up on HTML5 and CSS3
- Ubuntu Unity: A GUI for Beginners and Experts
- The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for Plant Biology
- The Official Ubuntu Book, sixth edition
- The Manga Guide to Relativity
- Stepping Down from the Ubuntu Forums Council
- New Computer from ZaReason
- Ubuntu Unleashed 2011 second printing
- Video interview with InformIT
- Ubuntu Unleashed 2011 Edition
- OmniGraffle 5: Diagramming Essentials
- Cooking for Geeks
- Forum Code of Conduct Updated
- Using Ubuntu One Cloud Storage: From Basic to Creative
- Linux Identity’s Linux Starter Kit
- Oath of Non-Allegiance
- The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology
- Nginx HTTP Server
- VMware Cookbook – Only $9.99
- Interviewed by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com
- A Foreigner’s Reception
- Interviewing the Authors of Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook
- New Job
- The Official Ubuntu Book, fifth edition released today
- VMware User Conference – Phoenix
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- Thoughts on Turning 40
- nginx, php-fastcgi and Ubuntu 10.04
- A video showing what it is like at an Ubuntu Developer Summit
- Server upgrade
- Modifying the Ubuntu Release Schedule
- Testing Ubuntu Releases
- Mark Shuttleworth Keynote UDS-M
- Ubuntu and Canonical Design Communication
- Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meercat announcement video
- 10.10.10
- Ubuntu Developers’ Summit – Maverick Meercat
- Ubuntu Up and Running
- Ubuntu Regional Membership Board Restaffing
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released
- 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
- Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice
- Ubuntu – refreshing the brand
- Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase
- Why Ubuntu server installations will surge in 2010
- Regular Expressions Cookbook and Mastering Regular Expressions
- Review of Ubuntu Unleashed 2010 edition on The Linux Blog
- One Million Registered Users on the Ubuntu Forums!
- Tech Tip from Ubuntu Unleashed on ITWorld website
- Footnotes in Gaza
- The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
- Ubuntu Unleashed 2010 Edition
- Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book
- Interviewed for Ubuntu UK Podcast
- Talk Morocco website launches
- Dove & Snake Giveaway
- Ubuntu documentation cleanup
- Ubuntu Membership Myths Debunked
- VMware Cookbook Early Reviews
- Heading Home from UDS-L
- UDS Accents
- An Amusing Observation
- UDS-L
- Learning Python, fourth edition
- VMware Cookbook is now available for purchase
- Just a Geek
- Burn This Book
- Linux in a Nutshell, sixth edition
- Cory Doctorow’s writing experiment
- Do I dare review more books?
- I was interviewed recently
- vrms
- Drowning out what I want to hear
- Dove & Snake, issue 2 {Nobody Wants to be a Sucker}
- Linux Journal posts excerpt from The Official Ubuntu Book
- Free sample recipes from VMware Cookbook
- The Manga Guide to Calculus
- The Official Ubuntu Server Book
- Rockbox open firmware on my Cowon iAudio M5
- Passing the Baton
- Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation
- Programming the Semantic Web
- The Official Ubuntu Book, Fourth Edition — first review and more
- The Official Ubuntu Book – Kindle Edition
- VMware Cookbook reviews beginning
- The Official Ubuntu Book, Fourth Edition is available
- An interview with Travis Newman
- The Manga Guide to Physics
- SQL and Relational Theory
- VMware Cookbook in Safari
- One of my books is in a library
- Reading up on SQL
- An interview with tinivole
- The Manga Guide to Databases
- Security Monitoring
- The Manga Guide to Statistics
- Sexy Web Design
- An interview with Codename
- The Manga Guide to Electricity
- Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery
- Newspapers and an Analogy
- Linux Identity’s Linux Starter Kit
- Python for Unix and Linux System Administration
- An interview with Rocket2DMn
- Learning JavaScript
- An interview with Michael.Godawski
- Using Drupal
- Intellectual Property and Open Source
- Drupal Multimedia
- The Principles of Successful Freelancing
- Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions
- An interview with PartyBoi2
- Getting started with Arduino
- Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.11
- Ubuntu 8.10 magazine
- Nowhere Else to Turn
- One url Apache-style 301 redirects in nginx
- A short how-to for switching from Apache to nginx
- My experience with System76
- Drupal 6 Themes
- An interview with vor
- Trolling, rudeness, and a lack of manners
- CUPS Administrative Guide
- An interview with Nicolas Valcárcel
- On Being Thankful
- Linux Identity and Ubuntu 8.10
- Why is intellectualism looked down upon?
- An interview with Nathan Grubb
- Come Together
- FBML Essentials
- Ubuntu Kung Fu
- I’ve been published again
- An interview with Joeb454
- An interview with John Crawford
- Racism and abuse in Morocco
- An interview with Alan Pope
- Am I the only one who doesn’t usually enjoy podcasts or video blogs?
- Do your own homework
- An interview with overdrank
- An interview with the SABDFL
- Respect is something that must be earned
- An interview with forestpixie
- Introducing Ubuntu Community Interviews
- The Official Ubuntu Book, Third Edition, special Barnes & Noble custom edition
- Gender, competence and the Ubuntu philosophy
- Ubuntu membership, some reminders for those who want to apply
- Allowing flash (flv) files to be stored and embedded in a coppermine gallery
- Fun with Conky, part 3
- Using rsync to back up my laptop
- The real reason I use Linux
- Guitar effects
- Silly date ideas for Valentine’s Day
- What is the coolest thing you can do using Linux that you can’t do with Windows or on a Mac?
- Automatic MySQL backups using PHP
- Making automatic backups for your website
- Elitism or equality: false dichotomy?
- Holiday greetings and hyper sensitivity
- Users who impose their beliefs on others
- The definitive guide to Trolls
- My custom amplifier…yep, I built it myself
- Fun With Conky, part 2
- I love my guitars
- Fun with Conky