Reckonings – Chapter One
The man known to some as Feldmarschal woke up from his violent slumber greeted with sharp waves of pain and nausea. His head felt like it had been split open.…
Prologue: Kin-Marked
No matter how hard he tried, or how comfortable his parents tried to make him, seven year old Mathieu kin’Fontaine could not get comfortable in his bed. It was too…
What am I On About Now?
Yes, I just added fiction to the neverending series of projects that float mostly unimpeded in my brain. Well, that’s not exactly true. It’s always been up there; it’s just…
Rogues and Other Means to an End – An Introduction
The story of Barscape Prime had all the hallmark points of legend. There were heroes and villains, plunder and loss, victory and sacrifice. The known galaxy was littered with its…
Project: Grande Paix (Homelabbing #3)
Project Grande Paix is my personal data center project. After months of watching various Linux and small computer enthusiast videos on YouTube, all in the wake of the DreamHost debacle…
Le P’tit Canada: A Film Screening and Associated Thoughts
On Tuesday, Claire and I attended a screening of the 1979 short film, Le P’tit Canada, a film in a series of films, called Le Son des Français d’Amerique, which…
It Lives! (Homelabbing, Part Two)
This was the Day of Nerves. My biggest fear as a software guy is bricking, or rendering useless, a piece of hardware. I’m several years (decades?) removed from my PC…
Adventures in Homelabbing, Part One
So, what is homelabbing? While I really don’t like the verbing of nouns and the nouning of verbs that seem to be the current norm among advertisers and English speakers,…
Emigration Stories
As I’ve mentioned countless times on-line and in person, I am primarily of French-Canadian descent. To date, I have tracked my ancestral lines to 600 colonists who emigrated from France…
Humming Along
It’s been two months since the great apocalyptic infrastructure brew-ha-ha that nearly consumed me heart and soul. Since the move to the DreamCompute platform, things have been humming along quite…