Aligorith's Lair

Last night I had to help Dad set up a new laptop. It was most enlightening and entertaining / heartening watching him ranting and seething a...

Here's a short rant / feature request / app-idea for anyone so inclined   Problem Statement   Currently, all too often, too many apps + ...

Was reading this morning about yet another story of someone doing the job hunting dance, and getting some kind of role-unrelated "stati...

Yet again, I was recently reminded about how *ALL* current desktop environments suck rather badly when it comes to doing "session manag...

Since I've mostly been ranting about Linux configuration / migration type things here in recent months, you may be forgiven for thinking...

While I'm on a bit of a soapbox about the stupidity of "Big Business" (and our politicians who are often too spineless to rein...

Have you taken a good look at the country of origin of stuff you're regularly buying? For instance, in recent months here in NZ, we'...

Had a really productive day and a half on my "Spectrochrome" project again after a 2 week hiatus! (Apart from running out of steam...

Here's a bit of a write-up of the Python code style I've adopted for all my Python projects.  I quickly tapped out a version of this...

I recently learned that there are two ways to make it easier to access the "Page Info" window in Firefox: In short: 1) The " ...

[ Disclaimer :  Unfortunately this is still not the full fancy intro post that talks about what this is, and how it came to be... Maybe I...

It seems my ongoing quest to set my machines up to seamlessly maintain state through the inevitable forced updates that still need to happen...