I enjoy playing sudoku. It's a mental challenge to figure out how to fill in the blanks. I had typically played the game on my android phone or tablet. The available apps are pretty good and have lots of aids for adding 'pencil' marks, tracking how many of each number …
Had a pleasant surprise this morning. Linux Mint 21.1 (Vera) showed up as available for install. I went through the upgrade process seamlessly and really like the out of the box improvements.
I really like how Mint has been coming along in the last several …
I have an old laptop and also a virtual machine that are running linux flavors. In addition to playing around with the OS, it's good to set them up so that they can do some basic stuff. The following tools serve as a basic setup to get me going. Here …
Xiphos is Bible study software that is available for Windows and Linux operating systems. It is able to use modules from "The SWORD Project" which gives access Bible translations in many different languages. You are able to download Bible commentaries, dictionaries and other books as well. It is open-source software …
This article illustrates four ways to calculate a factorial function along with how long each method takes.
I ran across an example factorial calculation in python using a lambda expression on the Make Tech Easier website. It made me wonder how the lambda function compared to using the factorial function …
Happy Father's Day
Just wanted to say that I am privileged to have a good father and mother who instilled in me the values needed to make it through life. For that I am very grateful. Were they perfect? Of course not. Parenting doesn't come with any instruction book. I …
It just occurred to me that I did not write up my reading highlights for 2021. I finished the year having read a total of 56 books.
As usual, sci-fi dominated my reading last year. Stand outs include:
It's good to be back up and running at 100%. As mentioned previously, the tool I use to build this site is the Pelican static site generator.
I tried to update my prior theme with the updated search plugin that relies on a tool called stork …
My wife has been on a quest for her perfect salsa. This one comes pretty close the the Mexican restaurant style we like.
One way to look at information is that there is a progression from data to wisdom. Because we use many of these terms interchangeably, it didn't occur to me that this can be viewed as a hierarchy like rungs on a ladder.
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should …