. I had yet another Windows setback last week. I had some automatic updates that needed to restart the system in order to finish up. Upon reboot, it got to 35% complete and then…nothing. I eventually did a hard reboot. A couple of days later, I was back in Ubuntu, backing up my important files [...]

Many of you read my previous posts about bookkeeping in Linux. I started out a really fun experiment to try to do my bookkeeping using the popular open source operating system. If you read those first 2 posts, you may be wondering what is happening with the test. Well, to put it simply, work has [...]

I have started to realize that doing these experiments is so much better than my previous strategy; jump into a new project blindly and hope for the best. Apparently that’s not the way to make positive changes in your life. Who knew? If I had dumped Windows altogether by just solving the bookkeeping problem, I [...]