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<title>Brent Blood's Web Site</title>
<description>Welcome to Brent Blood's home on the web. I know it's not much... I used to take my site more seriou</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<title>How This Site Is Built</title>
<description>#### Current Philosophy and Design

The current site is really pretty simple, based on a couple of l</description>
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<pubDate>2017-05-15T08:16:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Netgear GSM7324S Switches</title>
<description>#### The Situation

Most people have a modem of some sort that offers an integrated access point. Ev</description>
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<pubDate>2019-01-13T09:50:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>On Fall, Or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson</title>
<description>## Overall Impressions

Neal is my favorite contemporary author, and when this came out I added it t</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2020-04-18T12:50:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline</title>
<description>#### Overall Impressions

I had heard of this book a few years ago but was only reminded of it recen</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2018-05-21T14:08:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Brent's Firewall</title>
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<pubDate>2017-04-13T19:03:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>How to turn caps lock into another control in Ubuntu</title>
<description>## Introduction

It's a personal requirement that every computer that is primarily used only by me h</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2019-11-18T09:02:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Effective Bash Shell Usage</title>
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<pubDate>2020-04-09T10:57:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World, by Simon Winchester</title>
<description>#### Overall Impressions
I forget how I learned about this book, but when I saw it I immediately add</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2020-05-17T13:15:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking</title>
<description>### Overall Impressions

I've read a handful of books on science/engineering lately and I had recent</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2019-11-17T14:30:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson</title>
<description>#### Overall Impressions

I'm not an astrophysicist, and I'm also not especially in any type of hurr</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2019-03-30T17:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Miniatures and Wargaming</title>
<description>## Miniatures
I'm a big dork, and part of that is that I like to paint little soldiers mostly of a f</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2018-04-23T09:06:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>How I "P2V"ed a Windows 7 Home Install to Proxmox VE</title>
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<pubDate>2017-04-20T17:45:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: The Book of Dust, La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman</title>
<description>#### Overall Impressions

I actually finished this book a month or so, but forgot to write up a
revi</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2019-03-30T17:30:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene</title>
<description>#### Introduction

I'm almost all the way through my backlog of physics-related books (previously [h</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2020-03-15T09:19:30-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: The Dead Mountaineer's Inn, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky</title>
<description>#### Overall Impressions

I forget why I read this; it was recommended to me by someone but I cannot</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2019-03-30T16:50:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>On My Domain Names</title>
<description>## On My Domain Names

I've had a handful of domain names over the years. I still use most of them f</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2019-11-17T12:40:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: Zeroes by Chuck Wendig</title>
<description>### Overall Impressions

I read this immediately after I read [The Computer Connection](computer-con</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2019-11-17T14:10:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: The Book of Dust, The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman</title>
<description>#### Overall Impressions

This book wasn't a long read, even though it was ~600 pages. I think I fin</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2020-05-17T13:03:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Brent's Book Reviews</title>
<description>I like to read books. Here are some quick reviews of things I've read.

[On Ready Player One](ready-</description>
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<pubDate>2020-05-17T13:20:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Intelligent DNS Resolution with systemd</title>
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<pubDate>2019-12-13T16:45:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: The Peripheral, by William Gibson</title>
<description>#### Overall Impressions

The book took me a long time to read and I guess that probably means that </description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2019-02-24T12:18:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Atmosph&aelig;ra Incognita, by Neal Stephenson</title>
<description>## Introduction
This is a novella that may have been only accessible digitally - I know I couldn't f</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2020-03-09T10:01:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>snmpd logs too much</title>
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<pubDate>2018-06-21T09:25:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: In Calabria by Peter Beagle</title>
<description>### Overall Impressions

Another book that was floating around on my Kindle and I'm not sure how I a</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2019-11-17T14:20:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Upgrading a Comcast/Xfinity Cable Modem</title>
<description>#### The Situation
I'm a Comcast/Xfinity customer - somewhat begrudgingly, but not really. There ser</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2018-05-24T09:41:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>On Internet Hosting</title>
<description>#### How it all began...

I've worked for two ISPs in the past, so at various times, hosting Interne</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2017-04-15T18:56:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson</title>
<description>#### Overall Impressions

Neal Stephenson is presently my favorite author, and so it shouldn't be a </description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2018-05-24T09:07:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson</title>
<description>### Overall Impressions

I read this book a few months after getting through [A Brief History Of Tim</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2020-01-04T10:32:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Offensive Quotes from a Cow, Every Morning</title>
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<pubDate>2019-02-08T16:15:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pullman</title>
<description>### Overall Impressions

It's really good!

I first read it ~10 years ago and really enjoyed it - an</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2018-08-14T08:37:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl</title>
<description>### Overall Impressions

I grew up in the rust belt in a politically conservative atmosphere, but no</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2019-11-17T13:25:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: The Martian, by Andy Weir</title>
<description>## Overall Impressions
This is intended to be a review of the book, but I can't help but mentioning </description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2020-04-20T11:45:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Brent's Gruntle</title>
<description>This is not a blog. It's really just where I put stuff that I think someone else (not necessarily yo</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2019-12-16T09:33:00-00:00</pubDate>
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<title>The Story of Kullervo, by J.R.R. Tolkien</title>
<description>## Introduction
I was browsing the shelves of my local library when I came upon this book. I got a b</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2020-03-10T10:01:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>On Terminals</title>
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<pubDate>2020-04-11T12:37:00.000Z</pubDate>
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<title>Book Review: Computer Connection by Alfred Bester</title>
<description>### Overall Impressions
This was sitting on my Kindle when I was on a trip a few months ago and I ne</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2019-11-17T13:55:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Two Buttons</title>
<description>I made a little box that exposes two buttons. It allows me to control things such as skipping commer</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2018-09-02T18:14:00-08:00</pubDate>
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<title>Adventures in NUMA and HyperThreading</title>
<description>I was trying to configure Open vSwitch with DPDK support and it asked for CPU
pinning parameters for</description>
<link>https://www.openpile.org/</link>
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<pubDate>2019-03-07T17:10:00-08:00</pubDate>
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