Tales of Wrangling Geodata

This blog began with posts focused on discoveries, experiences and thoughts about working with information technology and geographic data with an emphasis on free and open source software. It has evolved to include technical and philosophical posts regarding Retrocomputing, Slow Web, and Smallnet.

13 Sep 2026 » Writing on the Train
03 Sep 2026 » How to Ask Questions the Smart Way According to ESR
29 Aug 2026 » The Terminal Challenge
24 Jul 2026 » Could I Be a Technocrat?
27 Jun 2026 » I just want to set it down and pick it back up when I'm ready
17 Jun 2026 » Using Foot Notes with Links in Gemini Files
07 Jun 2026 » Emacs Will Survive
02 Jun 2026 » Tech Tip: When Pasting UTF-8 into Terminal Emacs Doesn't Work
30 May 2026 » Paul's Introduction to Geminispace
07 Sep 2025 » Return access to Puget Sound QGIS User Group blog archive
06 Sep 2025 » Memory Hole
20 Nov 2019 » Down the Emacs Rabbit Hole
06 Jun 2018 » QGIS: A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System
01 Feb 2018 » A Government Worker at SOTMUS 2017
17 Feb 2017 » Dillinger.io - A Quick Way to Edit Markdown
16 Feb 2017 » MySQL: What in the Hell is the --secure-file-priv option?
11 Nov 2015 » Exploring Relations in QGIS
09 Aug 2015 » Make A Custom Symbol for QGIS
17 Jul 2015 » Let's Access Some Proprietary Data Formats
17 Jul 2015 » First Post
07 Jul 2015 » Puget Sound QGIS User's Group
30 Sep 2014 » 2014 FOSS4G Notes
10 Aug 2014 » Correct Addressing Is In The Details

Find me around the internet:

Meet me in and around Seattle at:

OpenStreetMap Seattle
MaptimeSEA
Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open Source (CUGOS)
Puget Sound QGIS User's Group (PSQGIS) On hiatus looking for a new organizer