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Thank you for visiting.
My name is Daniel Howard. I grew up in Chicago, and I live in
San Francisco Brooklyn
Mountain View Sunnyvale, 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 . . .
Truth be told, I post more often to Social Media, including:
- https://sfba.social/@dannyman <-- San Francisco Bay Area Mastodon
- https://www.facebook.com/dannymanTM <-- Facebook ("fah-chey-BOKE")
- https://bsky.app/profile/dannyman.toldme.com <-- Bluesky ("blues-kee")
See also: site archive and the "Everything" page.
Recently Posted
Achievement Unlocked: Permanently Banned From r/waymo
Waymo is good because it can reduce traffic deaths, and Waymo’s corporate parent is a sponsor of the growing horrors of the Trump Regime. Enjoy the ride, but don’t even feign shock that folks are willing to torch a few Waymos.
Modern cars don’t ship with spare tires.
It feels like the United States is Wile E Coyote having run over the cliff, pausing in mid-air, then daring to look down. It isn’t a Done Deal that we have lost our Democracy and I have some Faith that we’re going to Keep It Together but I am totally freaked out.
Sunnyvale has no Trump Tower, but Elon Musk has conveniently opened a chain of MAGA Embassies throughout affluent blue communities to receive our ire. For two hours a week. You and I can’t end this Darkness from the top. But we can be agents of Light in our own lives, working from the bottom.
Congressman Al Green Calls for Incivility–For a Noble Cause
Representative Al Green was censured for disrupting the President’s address. He gave a speech acknowledging his censure and proceeded to explain why he did what he did. I appreciated what he had to say to such a degree that I transcribed a portion to share.
“There comes a time when you can not allow the President’s incivility to take advantage of our civility. And that’s what’s happening in our country. His incivility is overwhelming our civility. We can not allow this.”
FreeBSD was my first free Unix Operating System. I must have first used it in 1996? It is a great server OS, and made a fine desktop in the old days as well. Sometime in the aughts I transitioned to Ubuntu Linux, just because a more mainstream OS tends to have better support.
Infrastructure: always a work in progress!
