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A tiny bit of history…

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I’ve been incredibly lucky to encounter some truly amazing people.  On about my 15th anniversary of working with UNIX, I decided to send a little thank you note to the guys who invented it – Brian W Kerrighan, Dennis Ritchie, and Ken Thompson – since they’d essentially provided me with the ability to make a…

Snowden blew it.

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I haven’t posted for a while but my buddy Danny asked me my opinion on the “NSA Leaker”, Edward Snowden. I had to pause and think a bit.  You see, I do the same type of work as Mr Snowden did.   I’ve been doing Sys Admin work for years and years; basically, I’m the god…