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