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Short term - Find a coding boot camp. Long term - Get a degree in computer science. One gets your foot in the door. The other enables career advancement. Once you know something, anything, look at source forge. Become a developer on a project. It is to bootstrap your resume. It is to...

I've been doing IT since 1978 when UNIX was unknown. It's not my first or even my third OS. I've been doing SysAdmin since 1982. VMS was loaded from reel to reel mag tape at the time. So were BSD and SysV. Linux is just one more version of UNIX-like systems to me. Distro? Folks who care...

Something I've read about charity - It has more value to the giver when given anonymously. I think because if you give in a way that no one will ever know that's more purely generous than if you give in person so folks know. If so then our charitable organizations are a way to be mostly...

Most of the time when recognition happens it is simply asked for and voted on. For full traditional recognition there's no need for a compact that lists the details of the agreement. It is my very biased opinion that any recognition that involves a compact is actually the establishment of a...

Belgian Navy! Oh we're talking coffee not waffles, ;^)

So far this week Disney has not purchased Shell Oil or Microsoft. But it's only Tuesday so you never know! The innovation of Starbucks is they take mediocre beans and roast them to the ragged edge of being burnt. That extracts the maximum flavor at the expense of being disliked by people who...

My work issues my a Windows laptop because it offers a lot of different networking packages so I can connect to client networks. Good enough for me. My wife worked for decades on Windows. We saw a deal on a Mac Book so we got her one. It took her 2-3 weeks to get used to it. Now she loves...

If you want to be in a unit that will take any Brother who is an Honorably Discharged veteran, check to see if your local Shrine has a military unit. Many do. If you want to be in an organization that takes veterans, look at the Amvets, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars. They each...

The story is reported differently inside and outside of Texas. The story outside of Texas is the process was going to take a year and they were given a deadline sooner than possible to comply with. The story inside of Texas is there was much more happening than was reported outside of Texas.

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I miss a stated meeting because I handed in the rest of my affiliation paperwork and I didn't want to be present for the vote. Of course that's when an announcement I'm interested in gets read. Thanks for the word! Of course nothing on the GLofTX web site. Sigh.

I just looked at my watch to see what time it is. My watch says the time is now MAY. MWGM - Brother Grand Secretary. Before the end of this week you will print a roll of lodges and send the copy to the other Grand Secretary. In addition download the list into a spreadsheet. Put the...

Welcome again to the family twice adopted brother.

Music is the 6th liberal art of the 7.

Once a Mason always a Mason. A brother should maintain membership in at least one lodge so inactive is not the same as suspended NPD. Once suspended we no longer have any say. I think it would be nice for him to move on to other rings but I don't have any authority to insist.

It depends on local clergy so there is no general answer. And it's not just that the answer varies by parish. It varies by which priest happens to be in charge at the parish. Different place, might be different answer. Different time, might be different answer. I know brother Masons who are...

Sports are supposed to be taught primarily for sportsmanship and secondarily for competition. Winning is less important than sportsmanship. A man wins or loses gracefully in sports. A man works hard to win in sports. The order and relative importance of these two matters. "It's not whether...

Rather than working to understand the insane it is a good strategy to diagnose them and move on. Never wrestle with a pig in the mud. You get dirty and the pig likes it. Better still to not get killed as you move on. Those who stay alert and know when to dodge when attacked live to dodge...

We teach free choice of religious belief and practice by any individual. Countries that forbid their citizens from any sort of religious conversion other than to one specific faith do not like free choice of religion in the sense that we mean it and practice it. I find it strange that anyone...

So it's *your* lodge that has the TARDIS with the labels on the control panel! I'll pass on using your time machine to visit the Medevil era.