Welcome!
Thank you for visiting.
My name is Daniel Howard. I grew up in Chicago, and I live in
San Francisco Brooklyn Mountain
View, CA. I was born in 1976: the year of the American
Bicentennial. I have a Bachelor's degree in English Rhetoric, but I
make my living as a Systems Administrator.
I enjoy writing, and I started publishing on the web in 1995, and an online journal in 1996. I will introduce you further on the Welcome page, or you can start exploring on your own . . .
See also: site archive and the "Everything" page.
Recently Posted
I have had bad luck trying to coax this out of Google, so here’s a Perl one-liner . . .
Work Note: Quarterly Reports from MySQL
I am not a DBA. I am but a humble SysAdmin who gets asked to figure out things like “how have we been at meeting our SLAs over time?” After I try to excuse myself I’ll inevitably end up say at the JIRA database running a query like this . . .
“If I were committed only to being right, I would go out and talk anyway, but because I’m committed to making a difference, I wait until I’m ready.” –Julia Butterfly Hill
Dan Savage Calls “Bullshit” On Parts of the Bible
The religion says you have an obligation to spread the gospel, to preach The Word. That means you ought to interact with non-believers and skeptics, not leave the room as soon as some public figure challenges some or another point regarding your religious faith.
Concrete and Electricity along a Canal
In a hospital room, the Daily Routine consists mainly of waiting.
The green beans were good.
Recently Twatted
Yeah, I tweet. Follow @dannyman if that's your thing.
PS: Thanks, Rick!
TODO: Maybe include recent comments and / or popular posts . . . Flickr? Yelp?