Category Archives: miscellaneous

Back on air!

A hardware issue unfortunately took our beloved server offline for the weekend, and we’re happy to be back! Minus a couple of issues with categories on this blog, it looks like we got through mostly unscathed. At the time of the crash, my post “The generalist’s dilemma” was getting a lot of attention, so my sincere [...]
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We are back!

A couple of weeks ago, a hard disk failure on the server which hosted hippiesque.com took us off the web. It was the worst possible time to notice that the hosting company had somehow… forgotten to backup our databases, our sites, our files. Everything. We did our best to salvage the contents of the site from [...]
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Radio silence / moving house

There is something about the act of packing I find peaceful. Perhaps it’s because I’m accustomed to travelling, and packing is a little ritual that allows you to make peace with the fact that your surroundings will soon change. Or maybe it’s because packing is such a finite, predictable act. On a journey, you know [...]
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Prelude without a fugue

About a year ago, I was attending a panel at a conference where the panelists were discussing moving towards “green” offices, initiating recycling programs at your work place, strategies to adopt for lowering waste and consumption, and so forth. It wasn’t particularly enlightening — if being green is something you care about, all these [...]
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