Alan. UNIX systems engineer, automation nerd, occasional cyclist.

This blog’s been running since 2007. Started as Solaris notes back when Sun was still Sun, drifted to Linux when OpenSolaris died and Ubuntu had a PPA for VirtualBox, now covers AI tinkering, gear ratios, and whatever else I’m pulling apart. I once spent an entire day in an ITIL training course — 15 minutes per slide explaining release management. That’s when I knew the middle layer had to go.

Early posts are imported from Blogger. They’re rough. That’s fine.

I use em dashes — a habit I picked up long before LLMs started sprinkling them into every paragraph like digital parsley. If you hate them, I understand. If you love them, we should get a beer.

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