August 2026

For anyone who has known me for any period of time, they will likely have picked up on the fact that besides being a UN*X SME, I have had a life-long love of astronomy. I was probably 4 or 5 when my mom got me my first telescope... a cheap 3" refracting telescope on a crude, flimsy Alt/Az mount.

So, if you have been looking around my site, you will have noticed that I am big fan of and a heavy user of Ansible. Indeed, as a computer engineer (or "software systems engineer", depending on which way you look at the coin), I view it as one of the essential tools in the DevOps/SysAdmin/Developer space to extend the concept of "DRY" (as in "Don't Repeat Yourself") out of the world of writing software and into the larger space of working with computers as a whole.