Rodger Donaldson

Rodger Donaldson

Red Hat Summit 2016 Day 2

A bunch of attendees opened the day with a 5K run in the morning; a nice route cutting down to the waterfront, past the baseball stadium, under the bridge to Oakland, and back

Red Hat Summit 2016 Day 1

The first day of the Summit proper. I am glad I registered yesterday - there are long queues of desperate people waiting for their tags as the keynote is about to kick off,

Red Hat Summit 2016 Day 0

The first day is a bit of a wash for me agenda-wise: it's POWER TRAINING day, and since I'm not POWER TRAINING, that doesn't leave me a

The Plantagenets

The Plantagenets title perfectly describes its scope: an narrative history of the Plantagenet dynasty from its inception to its end, divided into one chapter per ruler. It's a hefty, well-written, and

H is for Hawk

To describe H is for Hawk as a memoir of the period when Helen Macdonald had to come to terms with the death of her father sells it short. It is many other