The origins of Window Managers have fascinated me almost as long as the Window Managers themselves have - so I try to track what led to what in the world of Unix window managers.
read more'Nanban' - Movie Review
The Tamil remake of "3 Idiots" teaches the origins of common platitudes.
read more'Turks & Caicos' - Movie Review
A review of the sequel to 2011's fantastic "Page Eight," with Bill Nighy reprising the lead role of Johnny Worricker - currently hiding out in, you guessed it, the Turks and Caicos Islands.
read moreDealing with git Remote Branches
Like so many things with git, dealing with remote branches is non-obvious. This is how to do the basics, like pulling a branch to your machine, changing to it, committing and pushing changes.
read more'The Samurai of Ayothaya' - Movie Review
A crap martial arts movie from Thailand - with a Japanese star and a passel of famous Mauy Thai boxers.
read more'The Almighty Johnsons,' Season 3 - TV Review
The final season of "The Almighty Johnsons," as the Johnson brothers live out their last year as re-incarnated Norse gods in human form in modern New Zealand.
read more'The Vengekeep Prophecies' - Book Review
A look at Brian Farrey's The Vengekeep Prophecies "middle-grade fantasy" (the age group, not the quality). An enjoyable read with a good message.
read more'Emma' (2009) - Movie Review
Jane Austen has inspired generations of film makers. There's something to be said for the TV adaptations that usually run long enough to use all of Austen's story ... but whether they do or not is another story.
read more'Song of the Sea' - Movie Review
Tomm Moore's follow-up to the wonderful "The Secret of Kells" - this one is better.
read moreOpenWRT for Routing VirtualBox Machines
For some time I've been wanting to get OpenWRT running as a router in VirtualBox with OpenWRT managing the network connections of all other virtual machines ...
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