by Katherine Villyard | Jul 31, 2012 | writing mysticism
I was doing 250 words a day as a goal, but Jen and I signed up for stickK together. It looked like a time commitment would work better with their site than a wordcount commitment, so I said ten minutes a day/an hour a week. This works a lot better than I expected. I...
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 30, 2012 | monitoring
I run Nagios at home. It texts me when my machines need patches. I told this to a charming gentleman who was my dinner companion for the evening and he gave me a look that implied that I was not all there. (He’s a Nagios admin, too, but not willingly.) I...
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 27, 2012 | monitoring
So, I have this friend. (No, really, it’s my friend, it’s not me, I set up my own Nagios server.) She’s a DBA with no responsibility for anything outside of a bunch of SQL Servers. Nagios wakes her up in the middle of the night if the web server...
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 23, 2012 | procrastination
We interrupt your regularly scheduled computer geekery to bring you tea. I’ve been really getting into tea lately. Also, caffeine abuse is a vital component of geek culture, and tea is relatively neglected (unless you’re steampunk). So. Loose leaf, my...
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 21, 2012 | writing mysticism
I finally reached the central conflict on the story in progress! As one of my nieces’ other aunts pointed out, some add clay to an armature and some chip at stone. I’m usually the former. Which is why the amount of whacking I’m going to have to do...
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 21, 2012 | monitoring
Yes, I’ve been bad about updating. I was traumatized by a bunch of friends getting laid off from a former employer, and then I had two very busy weeks. This system of tracking total file usage, DBs only, came up talking to someone recently (Eric, are you...
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 17, 2012 | writing mysticism
I’ve already had that special moment when you realize that you’re probably going to cut 6,000 words from your short story in progress. Today I had that special moment when I realized that I’ve written 13,000 words and haven’t reached my central...
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 9, 2012 | sale
I read an excerpt from “The Last Wasicu” in the Broadpod, here. It’s one of my favorites of mine.
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 2, 2012 | cons
These were taken by Luke McGuff at Wiscon this year. You can see the entire collection here: Wiscon Photo...