Glen Campbell Essays Recipes Podcast Projects K6GEC

Essays & Poetry

A collection of prose and poetry, both serious and profane, on numerous subjects ranging from music to software to cooking to work and biography. Most of what I write is for my own memory, but it might be interesting to someone else.


  1. It's been a while
  2. Cider and Beer
  3. Travel Gear
  4. Running
  5. Photo Prompts
  6. Apple Airpods
  7. Stonehenge
  8. Syncope
  9. Vanity Nameservers with AWS Route53
  10. My Favorite Movies
  11. Waiting
  12. Oh, the places you'll go!
  13. Broadpool Cottages
  14. Rage, Rage
  15. My little ukulele
  16. The humble mailing list
  17. I love the “a”
  18. That old house
  19. Smart Locks
  20. On Being Fat
  21. Amazon
  22. Working Remotely
  23. Street Photography
  24. Please, allow me to rant a moment
  25. Bags
  26. Doing It Right
  27. Code for America
  28. Quite possibly the most important management advice you'll ever receive
  29. The management transition
  30. Happy Birthday
  31. Sacred Spaces
  32. Playing Around
  33. On Longer Days
  34. Chapter One
  35. Continuous Integration for php-opencloud
  36. Boost your website performance
  37. Working with Wok
  38. What's an xlerb?
  39. Programmable DNS
  40. I accidentally my servers
  41. Vanity nameservers with Rackspace DNS
  42. Music performance apps for the iPad
  43. How to talk about gun control
  44. I want to die in Autumn
  45. The best luggage I ever owned
  46. SQL is the new hotness
  47. Say what?
  48. Amo, amas, amat
  49. The Apogee Jam
  50. Life is short
  51. Alligator Gar
  52. The transit of Venus
  53. Understanding the Keystone Service Catalog
  54. Death
  55. Developing for the cloud
  56. The Library Crew
  57. Classical Music
  58. Marching Band
  59. Gadgets
  60. A joke my mother told me
  61. Snow Day
  62. Never trust anyone
  63. Flam, diddle, paradiddle, drag
  64. The most powerful emotion
  65. Go west, young man
  66. Begin at the beginning
  67. It's not all about the code.
  68. Software contingency planning, Donald Rumsfeld, and the epistemology of ignorance
  69. A good nights' sleep
  70. Goodbye, Bro
  71. How to deliver bad news to your boss
  72. How to write a performance review
  73. How to give a presentation
  74. How to give a status report