Welcome to www.hollenback.net: This Thing's Been Up For Almost Ten Years!

Updates

*03/03/11: Be sure to check out the articles below, I've been writing a lot of blog posts over the last few months. *12/27/10: Survived another insane year. Highlights: another baby boy (healthy & happy), wrote & presented a paper at a technical conference. *01/20/10: I finally got my followup to Big City Baby written - Big City Toddler! *04/07/09: Nothing too exciting, just wanted to let everyone know I am alive and very busy, what with the toddler and the job. *02/02/09: GE's defective light bulb could have burned down my house! *09/27/07: I've written a big new article I'm calling Big City Baby. This also helps explain why I haven't updated this site much in the last few months.

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General Interest

• The Glory of My Walk to the Store Last Night.
• Guess what? I suck at Caltrain.
• I made some baby food and took some pictures!
• Why Are old toys better than new ones?
• Thanks for making my child cry, E*TRADE.
• Ever had an ocular migraine? It's pretty freaky.
• How to survive having a baby in the city.
• Three great music blogs.
• We survived the blackout of 2003!
• You might enjoy my notes about the experience of moving to New York City.
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Geek Stuff

• I'm a terrible windows administrator.
• Send your command-line data as mime parts with perl.
• Instructions for installing Request Tracker 4 on CentOS 5.
• How do you make sure something doesn't execute on 10,000 servers all at once? Spread the load on your servers.
• I say that Devops means Don't be an A-Hole
• I had the honor of taking part in a Software Packaging Panel at Devopsdays 2011.
• I presented a BayLISA talk about Release Management.
• My brain dump about web hosting vs VPS providers.
• A couple of ways I've recently learned to write cleaner perl code.
• Do you ever use metrics as a weapon?
• My thoughts on mentoring and documentation.
• Configuring a cheapo Asus wireless router to act as a DirecTV wireless bridge (with dd-wrt).
• How I stopped worrying and learned to love perl command line scripts.
• Create a command line distribution chart with bash.
• How to solve the problem of poor RSS feeds from wikis.
• A random proposal for a twitter resource identifer (TRI).
• Is it possible to bring DevOps to a large organization?
• Please don't use mkdir -p in install scripts.
• I use a wiki instead of a blog and that's ok.
• Wikis I hate every one of you collectively & individually.
• Here's a perl script bug that got me thinking.
• Debugging a weird hung network connection problem.
• Calculating logfile timestamp offsets with emacs org-mode.
• Wondering about emails from 1969?
• The programmng exercise known as FizzBuzz.
• How to deal with the dovecot X-UID bug.
• Tips on upgrading your Linksys Wireless router to open source.
• How to migrate filesystems to a raid array using LVM.
• How to back up your amazon wishlist to a text file.
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