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- Filling in the missing dates with AWStats: Doh! Sometimes AWStats will miss some days in calculating stats for your site, ...
- Scrivener and Zotero: Scrivener is awesome software for writing, that I've mentioned before, but I had...
- Setting up a Hosting Environment - Part 2: Connecting the Storage Array: [See Part 1: The Servers] One of the most frustrating parts of this set up wa...
- Setting up a Hosting Environment: Part 1 - The servers: I've spent a lot of time at work setting up a few servers to be our new producti...
- Writing is like carving in stone: Cross posted at NaziTunnels.org. Like a block of stone I recently finished...
- CentOS 6, iDrac6 and PowerEdge R510: RedHat changed an important part of their system with the upgrade from versio...
- Making SMF static: We have a few legacy forums powered by the good software SMF (SimpleMachines For...
- Carl Edwin Shepherd - April 30, 1949 - August 8, 2011: My dad passed away kind of unexpectedly a few weeks ago. He was diagnosed wi...
- 3rd Annual Rolling Flubber: I recently did the 130 miles on Skyline Drive. This was the third year in a row ...
- Python, Trac, virtualenv and CentOS: I've just spent too much time figuring this out. I've had to piece it together f...
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Scrivener and Zotero
Scrivener is awesome software for writing, that I’ve mentioned before, but I had yet to really test out the integration with Zotero (my citation manager of choice). So now that…
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Writing is like carving in stone
Cross posted at NaziTunnels.org. Like a block of stone I recently finished writing and rewriting and writing again the essays for several scholarship applications. It is probably a good thing, but…
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Writing Proposals
This post is cross-posted at my dissertation site. I spent the day researching grants and reading about how to properly put together a proposal. I also spent a bit of…
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ABD
I have now achieved a major milestone in my academic career. I passed the oral exam in October, and the dissertation prospectus and presentation in December. With that I am…
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Veterans Day Interest Spikes
Google has some interesting additions to their search results. You can now see ‘Related Searches’, a ‘Wonder wheel’, and a ‘Timeline’. I think the timeline may have been there for…
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German Sonderweg
This is an essay I wrote for a Directed Readings course in Fall 2009, with Marion Deshmukh. The Sonderweg of German History Before 1940s there was a positive Sonderweg thesis…
Technical
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Filling in the missing dates with AWStats
Doh! Sometimes AWStats will miss some days in calculating stats for your site, and that leaves a big hole in your records. Usually, as in my case, it’s because I…
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Scrivener and Zotero
Scrivener is awesome software for writing, that I’ve mentioned before, but I had yet to really test out the integration with Zotero (my citation manager of choice). So now that…
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Setting up a Hosting Environment – Part 2: Connecting the Storage Array
[See Part 1: The Servers] One of the most frustrating parts of this set up was getting the storage array talking to the servers. I finally got it figured out….
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Setting up a Hosting Environment: Part 1 – The servers
I’ve spent a lot of time at work setting up a few servers to be our new production environment. Much of it was accomplished by reading the documentation over and…
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CentOS 6, iDrac6 and PowerEdge R510
RedHat changed an important part of their system with the upgrade from version 5 to 6. This affects CentOS which is the same thing, but rebranded. I was updating one…
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Making SMF static
We have a few legacy forums powered by the good software SMF (SimpleMachines Forum). Like many of the WordPress installs, it’s a pain and a security risk to keep these…
Theology and Personal
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Carl Edwin Shepherd – April 30, 1949 – August 8, 2011
My dad passed away kind of unexpectedly a few weeks ago. He was diagnosed with liver cancer (although he never drank a drop of alcohol) about two years ago. At…
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3rd Annual Rolling Flubber
I recently did the 130 miles on Skyline Drive. This was the third year in a row to do this ride. It was lots of fun, and lots of pain….
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Gratitude is an Attitude for any Dude
As part of my Duty To God study, I have been studying about gratitude. The Church has a nice site dedicated to the topic of gratitude (http://lds.org/topic/gratitude/) which provides some…
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Doing my Duty to God
The Church put out an awesome new Duty to God program. I like it because it’s basically a scripture study program that helps the young men become spiritually strong and…
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The Great Coming Battle
I taught the third hour combined Young Men/Young Women lesson yesterday. It went really well. I gave plenty of opportunities for the kids to make connections and observations between the…
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Seven points that clarify Christ's existence
I’ve been struggling to find a topic or study practice to keep my studies coherent. I was prompted to start reading “Jesus the Christ” by James E. Talmage. I only…







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