Doug Mahugh - DOUG'S WORLD (Page 6)

DOUG'S WORLD

Sign in Subscribe

Doug Mahugh

My Backup Process

My Backup Process

A few people have asked me about the backup process I use, so this post covers how I manage my backups. Two things to note: * This post is rather long and boring, unless you’re into this sort of thing. * I’m generally happy with my approach, but I have

Defender: The Last Word

Defender: The Last Word

This evening, I’ve checked an item off my to-do list that was over 30 years old: publish Defender book. Check. Done. Here it is: DEFENDER: THE LAST WORD * Introduction [https://www.dougmahugh.com/defender-introduction/] * Chapter 1: Getting Started [https://www.dougmahugh.com/defender-chapter01/] * Chapter 2: The Controls [https://www.

Kingo

This is the story of my first dog, a Collie named Kingo. It's from notes I took in my early 20s while Kingo was fresh in my mind, and I wrote it up years later for Mom and others who remember him. I finally finished this and posted

Lens lust in abeyance

Lens lust in abeyance

Ever since I got my first modern SLR, a Nikon N90s in 1998, I’ve been constantly lusting after more lenses. I’ve always known of one or two lenses that I was planning to rush out and buy the next time I had some cash burning a hole in

An Open XML Memoir

An Open XML Memoir

Working on the Open XML campaign was an amazing experience. I joined Microsoft in late 2005, thinking I was going to work as a SharePoint technical evangelist, but in my first month I found myself thrust into a role I never knew existed before, which had nothing to do with

Dough!

OK, this is something I’ve wanted to complain about many times. Today’s the day. Finally. My rhetorical question is very simple: why the hell do so many people call me “Dough”? Not out loud, mind you. Only once, in a Chicago courtroom long ago (don’t ask), can

Vista Includes Debug!

Vista Includes Debug!

<friday evening rant while waiting for traffic to die down> I have a favorite utility program, a piece of software that has been included with every shipping Microsoft operating system since the earliest versions of DOS. I'm talking about Debug, of course, the DDT of MS-DOS.

Programming in Structured English

Programming in Structured English

It’s a gray Saturday here in Seattle. We get quite a few of those. I was planning to take a hike today, but my goal wasn’t really the exercise. Hikes, like many things I do, are just excuses to go take some cool pictures. And on a cloudy

Creating a DOCX out of thin air

Creating a DOCX out of thin air

Suppose you were stranded on a desert island, and you wanted to create a document. A “Hello World!” document, just to let the world know you’re out there. And let’s say you’re going to send it to a bunch of people back at the office who are

Hurricane Katrina (part 2)

Hurricane Katrina (part 2)

This blog post contains photos I took when Megan and I returned to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in late September 2005. Our trip to the area two weeks earlier is covered in Hurricane Katrina (part 1). On our first trip to Gulfport right after the hurricane, we were mostly focused

Hurricane Katrina (part 1)

Hurricane Katrina (part 1)

This blog post contains photos I took while Megan and I were on the Mississippi Gulf Coast September 3-8, 2005, to help relatives who had lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina. Our return trip two weeks later is covered in Hurricane Katrina (part 2). I wrote many long blog posts

The Ramsey Flying Bathtub

The Ramsey Flying Bathtub

This post is something I had on my website in 2005, which my Uncle Irv put together for helping to sell the "flying bathtub" aircraft that he had built. I've recently recovered it from my backups and restored it here for posterity. This unique and unusual

Fun With Math

This post is something I wrote in 1996 for my niece Madeline, who was 9 years old at the time. It was an attempt to convey to her some of the things I found interesting about numbers and arithmetic when I was her age. BIG Numbers There are big numbers,