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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 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...
- Writing Proposals: This post is cross-posted at my dissertation site. I spent the day researchin...
- ABD: I have now achieved a major milestone in my academic career. I passed the oral e...
- Gratitude is an Attitude for any Dude: As part of my Duty To God study, I have been studying about gratitude. The Churc...
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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…
Academic
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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…
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Orals Passed!
Whew! That was fun. Marion Deschmuk, Dina Copelman, and Sean Takats are great faculty to work with. And I would not have been able to do it without the mentoring…
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Orals Bibliography
Here’s the bibliography I have to draw from for the oral exam. My final preparation task is to make sure I know something about each book, it’s importance (historigraphically, methodologically…
Technical
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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…
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Python, Trac, virtualenv and CentOS
I’ve just spent too much time figuring this out. I’ve had to piece it together from many other sites. I need to set up Trac .12 on CentOS 5, but…
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Convert CSV file to directories
A fellow co-worker had a need to turn a CSV file into a series of directories and files where the columns of the CSV file were the directories, and the…
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The Past in Color
This weeks installment of history found on the web includes links to a few sites with something special. Color photographs from the early days of color photography. Color somehow brings…
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Many Mechanical Machines
Back again with another roundup of websites promoting some history. This weeks focus is on the computers and other machines. Technologizer has come through in the past year or so…
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…