Hi, I'm Chad McCullough I love Linux, FreeBSD, and Open Source, I ride bikes (for transportation and fun), I'm vegan for the animals, and I l...
My apologies, but I've been missing in action for the past, well, a long time. Over the past 8 or 9 months or so, I've experienced a couple of life changing events. Life sort of went haywire and I was struggling to handle it all. First, I lost my job, and found that no one is really interested in hiring an almost 60 year old who spent the better part of the last 30+ years in tech. Ageism in hiring…
This is going to be a struggle. I'm not much of a writer and writing about losing my best friend in the whole world will make it even more difficult. Our dog, Roxy, had been experiencing some health issues for the past month or so. Last week, we took her to the Vet and he found that she was suffering from anemia and an enlarged liver. The prognosis wasn't good but we were hopeful that the medicine…
Honestly, I'm tired of what the internet has become. I've been around since the internet started and it was so much fun back then. There was a lot of creativity, a lot of community, and just a lot of positive things happening and connecting the world. What's it like today? It's commercialized, it's bloated, it's full of ads being forced on us, requiring ad blockers just so we can stay sane (and…