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Month: December 2016

Feminism/Marriage

Micro-cheating

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ve defended flirting while married or in a committed relationship. I believe it’s something that can be a part of a healthy relationship, provided...

Politics

Let’s talk about 2016

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

So I’m not allowed to talk about my two nephews being born, the new better job I started at the start of the year, delivering a computer project to a frie...

10Gb network upgrade

10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Zone 2 switch – Part 1

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

With the first zone effectively done, it was time to plan the second switch. The requirements here are a little more involved than the Zone 1 switch: 10GbE upli...

Constitution

Electoral College math experiment

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

With a lot of buzz going about the Electoral College and the fact that Trump won the electoral vote despite Clinton winning the popular vote, I opted to conduct...

Mira

Another pass by Mira

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Well the time has come again to take another pass by the distant binary star system Mira… Okay, perhaps not. Instead the time has come to revisit the comp...

White Lightning

White Lightning – Finished

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

While it happened in December, the upgrade to this system occurred a little sooner than I expected. The ASRock mainboard with the A8-7600 just would not remain ...

Capitalism/Politics/Religion

My Christmas rant…

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

(Note: I originally wrote this in 2009. Opted against updating the dates.) Over the years, I’ve stepped back and thought about what Christmas has become. ...

Feminism/Libertarianism

You’re a libertarian, not a libertarian feminist

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 2 Comments

Over at Libertarianism.org, Sharon Presley has written several articles on what she dubs “libertarian feminism“. Yet if you read through her article...

10Gb network upgrade

10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Zone 1 switch

Posted on December 10, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The first switch is complete. Mostly. Current specifications: CPU: AMD FX-8320E with Noctua NH-L9a Mainboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme6, Enzotech SLF-40 w/ Noctua N...

Economics/Feminism/Politics

One question no one seems to ask about diversity

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Article: “Diversifying tech: Yes, white men can be part of the solution and not the problem” Ah another piece of virtue signalling. In other words, ...

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