General Blather

Because I'd watched Squid Game and Alice in Borderland, and maybe just because of its marketing or popularity, Netflix insisted on pushing Hellbound on me. So I caved and watched it. more »

Well, is software ever finished? After days of trying, reading weird blog entries, and sometimes not helpful documentation, I finally found the bits necessary to allow Apache to pass environment variables to a PHP app. more »

I've had some time while the kids are facing their tablets for afternoon entertainment, so I've kicked in some progress on making the Docker container version of this blog software work. more »

Without checking for conflicts or anything related to deprecated packages, I allowed the server to do the distribution upgrade it's been pestering for, moving from Ubuntu 21.04 to 21.10. more »

Yesterday Apple TV+ released a new Tom Hanks movie, Finch. After the kids went to bed, I dove into this post-apocalyptic introspection movie. more »

The news of late has been abuzz with Netflix's Squid Game. It's been paralleled with Alice in Borderland, which has a tie to deadly games and unwitting players, but this is a bit different. At the very least, Alice in Borderland is set in Japan,… more »