Author: C.J. Collier

  • I took this picture

    Could you folks please update my credentials? KTHXBI

  • Time to put social media down for a bit

    You’re a bunch of wankers! Just kidding. But seriously, I need to focus more on core. I’m changing my password and putting it somewhere hard to find and paste in to phones, for instance. So maybe you’ll see a bit more of me on the blog that I own and operate with my own money…

  • Trip Report: UW signing-party

    Dear Debian Users, I met last night with a friend from many years ago and a number of students of cryptography. I was disappointed to see the prevalence of black hat, anti-government hackers at the event. I was hoping that civilized humanity had come to agree that using cryptography for deception, harm to others and…

  • A harowing upgrade

    I just dist-upgraded the blog server to jessie. A couple of errors from code with checks for which modules are enabled from .htaccess (deprecated and now obsolete behavior). Nothing all that rocky. Go team Debian!

  • Court docs

    For review by magistrate or judge.  More details as I have time to enter them.  Will include link to this post on submitted documents. Some photos taken during time of recovery included below.

  • Guest author

    I’ve invited my dear friend Noah to blog here while he’s traveling the world. I’ve equipped him with one of my old laptops and will drive him to the train station on Thursday. He’s going to have a lot of the fun that I wish I was having. But at least I can live vicariously…

  • MySQL Meet-up 20141208

    I had an enjoyable time last night at Twitter with local MySQL DBAs and developers. We had an attendee who has no experience with SQL or programming at all. She is interested in organizing her collection of recipes and had heard a rumor that MySQL was a good tool to use for this task. She…

  • Orcas.IO

    I registered a domain that I’ll use for Orcas-local projects such as the Orcas Internet Exchange and various things like that. http://www.orcas.io/ Pretty fancy, huh?

  • Happy Birthday to Collier Technologies LLC!

    Five years ago today, Hannah and I completed all of the forms necessary to stand up our LLC. Okay, alright. Our registered agent actually did all of the hard work. Thanks and happy birthday to you too, Molly!

  • Long Term Stable – 2014.04 @ 20141204T080801

    It’s been one of those nights: cjac@ubuntu0:/data/apps/prod$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Calculating upgrade… Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. cjac@ubuntu0:/data/apps/prod$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Calculating upgrade… Done 0…