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Submission Rules

This is an updated version of a post I made on Interesting Authors blogĀ also called Submission Rules. There is a limit to how geeky I can get when writing posts there as most come to read some interesting prose and a few tips from the trenches when it comes to writing. Featured image by succo from Pixabay ==== Makes you go hmmm… A while back an email with a link to this arrived. Yes, the … Submission RulesRead more

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Best Linux Word Processor in 2019

Now that The Minimum You Need to Know About the Phallus of AGILE is out for another round of editing, I have a bit of time to experiment with word processor software on my KDE Neon 64-bit desktop. Some of you will remember that I kicked some tires back in January. Regrettably I started a free trial for the commercial version of Textmaker then didn’t do anything with it and it has something stored somewhere … Best Linux Word Processor in 2019Read more

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Did AGILE make the 737 Max fall from the sky?

AGILE. The new corporate buzz phrase for hacking on the fly. Keller MBAs in a room sounding like a yard full of chickens chanting “cut costs, cut costs, cut costs” have been falling all over themselves because when you remove engineering from “software engineering,” it’s cheaper. You can even use lower skilled, lower cost developers because they don’t have to know much to do AGILE. Software engineering is the application of principles used in the … Did AGILE make the 737 Max fall from the sky?Read more

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Second Worst Case of Food Poisoning Ever

Food poisoning is one of those illnesses you never forget. Humans could have a million colds over their lifetime and at best will remember one. Food poisoning though, that shivering under a pile of blankets, spewing from both ends 24-48 hours is a trauma the brain doesn’t let go. Ordinarily I try to keep the medical discussions a little higher policy/society type level. Mostly I speak of the medical device industry that I’ve been working … Second Worst Case of Food Poisoning EverRead more

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Speeding Up Libre Office 6

I’ll never understand what goes through the minds of those who plan LibreOffice. I guess they wish to size it to run on an idiot phone instead of a real computer. Maybe they are chasing the Raspberry Pi market trying to make everything work in under 2Gig of RAM. They are really killing the desktop market doing that. Featured image by Free-Photos from Pixabay Big Files = Big Problems This weekend I started applying the … Speeding Up Libre Office 6Read more