In this article, I look at what system administration entails. We see that the real work is understanding, producing, transforming, and maintaining text.

Whenever working on your computer as a textsmith, never let it hold any mysteries beyond its binary data. This post looks at the five directories that you have to harness as part of your workbench.

While you are wondering which area of your computer you have to bakup first, this article demonstrates the importance of your $HOME directory. In fact, you have to treat it as your workshop.

How does a textsmith manage his personal finance? This article demonstrates that plain text goes beyond the domain of sysadmin and programming into personal spaces.

This week’s nugget is on version controlling your application configuration files