It’s been more than a year since my last entry on the blog, and I suppose I need to get better at journalling what I’ve been up to, but, to be honest, I have more fun in doing than in recording what I’m up to.

Having moved this blog from Wordpress to Hugo does mean that I’m having a fair deal less resistance to updating it but it also means that I had to spin up a separate instance just to run Wordpress for the infrequent update requests I get on my Wordpress Plugins which is, apparently, used by at least one person on the planet. Okay, I’m being excessively modest; at least two…

So, it’s been a busy couple of years—more than 7 in fact—since I last updated this blog.

It the meantime I’ve been busy in real life, on Facebook, Twitter, and Mastodon—which most certainly isn’t real life—and basically making a nuicance of myself and growing older.

So, see this as an official notification that I ain’t dead (yet).

Cool? Cool. Carry on, then.

Solaris, while a fairly decent OS, can be a bit of a pain if you try and write some cross-Unix compatible scripts.

One of the functions I tend to use quite a bit is ‘seq’, a sequence generator:

~$ seq 1 10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
~$

I use it in a couple of my scripts where I need to chunk, or ‘split’ some files without ending with cruft:

You go ahead, Saruman; and you take care of Sauron for us.

Sir Christopher Lee, born in 1922, passed away Sunday morning, 7 June 2015. It’s been a sad couple of years for geeks. On the other hand, we may have been spoilt by so much greatness as well.

Sir Terry Pratchett has passed away¹ and the world has thus lost one of its bright lights. He probably managed to get more people to read than Enid Blyton and J.K. Rowling combined…

Mooi Loop² Sir Terry…