Finding Coffee
Day 2 of my journey. I stayed near syracuse last night in a travel plaza on the New York State Thruway (I-90). It served we well since it rained overnight.…
Heading Toward the Sunset
September 30, 2019 It’s a beautiful sunny day in South Portland, Maine. It’s absolutely one of those days that we, as New Englanders, live for. Bright, sunny, 80 degrees and…
Why I’m going walkabout
For most of my adult life I've felt trapped by circumstances: debt, parenthood, poor self esteem, etc. debt more than anything else. Student loans mostly. They were like a yoke…
Samba connectivity
For what seems like forever, I've been trying to get Linux workstations and servers to communicate and share files via Samba. We won't get into the complete lack of coherent…
WordPress password reset
I was just at the codex.wordpress.com wordpress support site about manually resetting a password. They had some long drawn out procedure involving a text file and the md5 command to…
A dream
A quote came up this morning while watching videos by "Playing for Change." Quite a few of these videos bring tears of joy. Thank you Joanne Arnold for linking to…
Welcome
This is the first post to curtis.maurand.com. This will be a place for my rantings as well as little technical tidbits that I find. Sometimes I get political. I haven't…