If LoTR had been written by someone else

Even if you're not a total Lord Of The Rings geek (I'm sure not), you've gotta check out this forum.

But be forewarned - as of this writing, it's 22 pages long and still growing. But if you've got some time to kill (or want to print it out for later) it's well worth the time. Some of these things are a scream!

And away we go...

How I used the occasion of a flaky PC problem to begin my journey into Linux. Here's the story.

Recently, my PC starting acting quite goofy - hard drive problem type of goofy - so I pulled the drive and took it to work so I could try to backup some data from it before it went totally kaput. I was also going to run some diagnostics on it, but my box at work didn't have enough memory to do a lot with it. I burned a CD with the data that I pulled off and, with that and the drive [……]

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Where's My Head?!?

So I've now entered the world of blogging, huh? What, exactly, that means I have no idea. But, I had space on a server and it seemed a shame to let it go to waste.

As this is my first real post, I guess I'll provide some background.

The cast of characters that you'll see mentioned on this site will run the gamut of family, friends and people I've never met and probably never will.

The topics will be widely varied because the many aspects of my life are widely varied. Among others, I expect to write about:

  • Family stuff -
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