I’m told that cool URIs don’t change, which I guess means that the original URI of this blog, pebkac . homelinux . net, is not cool. Having used it for over a decade out of convenience and laziness, I now find that the current owners of the service want considerably more money than I’m willing […]

I’ve been climbing for awhile, and at some point I decided that I wanted to figure out climbing photography. Here is some of my noodling so far.

I would like to thank the National Park Service, Camp Celo, and several friends who shall remain nameless here for a much needed reset in the form of a bike trip on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Friends at the camp were kind enough to let us park the car I’d borrowed for the trip off […]

Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8) moved my cheese in the form of the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “<string>”, line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named virtualenvwrapper.hook_loader virtualenvwrapper.sh: There was a problem running the initialization hooks. If Python could not import the module virtualenvwrapper.hook_loader, check that virtualenv has been installed […]

It looks like I’m not the only one to have a blog backup oops and lose data in the process. It’s nice to see a nod to implementing a robust backup strategy in the post. Note that Michael uses rdiff-backup, while I use rsnapshot. May you, dear reader, learn from our mistakes rather than from […]

I have some new pictures to share. I went to the Spring Pottery and Glass Festival at Cedar Creek Galleries this past weekend. I spent most of my time there watching glassblowing demonstrations in the 4 winds studios space. Here are a couple of my favorites:  

Had to share this one. The above image is from XKCD and is republished here under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. See the XKCD license page for details.

Couldn’t sleep. Have a picture I took.