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For those of you who are unfamiliar with my health problems with my leg, this may come as a surprise. I had surgery a week ago, on Wednesday morning. You can see a description of lumbar micro-discectomy at my doctors’ site. I was nervous leading up to the incident, especially after finding out that I [...]

nate:~ bigfleet$ history 1000 | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head 106 ls 90 cd 34 rake 27 git 25 autotest 19 cap 18 rm 18 ps 17 ssh 15 sudo work:~ bigfleet$ history 1000 | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | [...]

Mail I have a good GMail system that I love. I used it to sort through approximately 5,000 e-mails from over two years into a pile of less than 30. Two wrenches are in those gears right now. All my workstation time is on Mac OS X now (yes!) and the new FireFox 3 betas [...]

For those who don’t know anything about my problems with my leg (and back), it’s been causing me a great deal of pain in the last year. When the pain began in April or May of 2007, it wasn’t bad at first. Nothing really happened to make it start hurting, I just noticed that it [...]

As I write this, with the late evening games of Round 1 yet to conclude, I stand tied for first in my bracket competition. Come on, buckets, I could use the spare dough! I am officially worried by the Clemson Tigers at this second, however. A Tiger beats a Wildcat every time, though, so I [...]

At the end of January 2007, I made a list of my goals for what I wanted to accomplish before my 29th birthday in February of 2008. There’s been so much change already that I think it’s OK to revisit this list in light of the first moments of 2008 being upon us. Goals for [...]

Hello, again, all! As my last update post may have led you to believe, I have indeed been monstrously busy over the past several months. It happens to the best of us. Recently, however, I’ve managed to carve out enough time to do something that I’ve wanted to do for several years. The website that [...]