As with many others, I suppose, I have various email address come and go: perhaps via job changes, or graduating/changing schools, deciding to sell a domain, or any of a host of other reasons. There’s a problem with that, though: when those changes happen, sometimes access to other digital resources becomes…difficult. For example, I have …
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restaurants
I’ve been a bit lax lately on reviewing places I’ve been to eat. Since March, I’ve traveled a few times for both work and pleasure, and have gotten to enjoy several local establishments: Foundry Grille Verve Seasons Patrick O’Shea’s Bensi Roots Steakhouse The Cheese Shop Thai Kitchen Food For Thought Captain George’s Tucano’s Hopefully over …
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1 year
Sunday marked the my first anniversary with my lovely wife, Christina. We spent the last week in Virginia, utilizing the one-year passes we bought on our honeymoon 🙂 Our flights into Norfolk were smooth, and since it was so nice, we just decided to head straight to the beach from the airport. The weather was …
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memorial day
I have been fortunate to both know and know of many folks in the US military over the past 70 years. In approximate historical order, thank you for your service: Roger M Ralph M Ken C Joe M Ken C Warren M EJ N June N (C) Donald C Jeremy F Joe D Ben W …
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chimneys and fireplaces
About 14 years ago, good friends of the family bought an old farm house with some outbuildings in rural Schoharie County in NY (outside Middleburgh, in a locale called “Hunter’s Land”). One of the first things they wanted to do with the house was to re-engineer the heating, which included properly insulating the house, and …
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new layout
Thanks to the myriad WordPress developers and contributors, themes are widely available. I just switched to “Dragonskin 1.5 by Angelo Bertolli” from “veryplaintext”. Go go gadget community!
it was nice while it lasted
There have been a variety of stories recently about MacDefender, and the recent [small] wave of malware attacks on Mac OS X systems. For years, one of the most-touted features of the Mac was its [relative] immunity to malware: the number of viruses, trojans, etc for any edition of the Macintosh is remarkably small: with …
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about time :)
Saw in a tweet from David Pogue that someone has finally implemented a DVR-for-radio. Only took three years for someone to build 🙂 I haven’t started playing with DAR.fm yet, but it looks pretty cool!
haiku talk
This past Saturday, I gave a presentation/talk on Haiku for the BGLUG in Lexington KY. For those unfamiliar with Haiku, it is an open-source reimplementation of my favorite OS of all time, BeOS. Instead of having a formal slide deck for the event (as initially planned), I kept it informal with an oral history of …
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square foot gardening by mel bartholomew
Years ago, my mom and I would routinely try to catch episodes of {{Square Foot Gardening}} (SFG) on PBS. Hosted by {{Mel Bartholomew}}, a retired civil engineer, SFG was a program whose aim was to enable gardening by the masses in confined spaces (though, naturally, if can be implemented in larger settings as well). Mr Bartholomew’s …
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moab con 2011
I was in Provo UT this week for Moab Con 2011. It was a great week – got to meet lots of interesting people, learn how different companies and institutions are using Adaptive’s Moab product, and see where the roadmap for the product should bring it over the next 1-2 years.
bglug presentation – haiku fun
On 21 May I am presenting at the BGLUG meeting. The topic will be Haiku. I was an ardent BeOS fan/user for a while during their early Developer and Release days, and was among the saddest* to see them disappear as a company, and then even more saddened when Palm totally blew their chance to …
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world war z by max brooks
{{Max Brooks}} is likely the world’s foremost authority on zombies – how to survive them, what to do if there is an uprising, etc. In “{{World War Z}} – An Oral History of the Zombie War”, he tackles the issue of reporting on what happened by interviews with those who survived. From first-hand accounts from a …
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mtbf – is it really *that* hard?
Most manufacturers will list an MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) on their products – at least in the computer hardware industry. A typical number might be 1 000 000 hours. For those keeping track at home, that’s about 114 years! Now, since no harddrive has been running for more than a century, how could they …
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1421 by gavin menzies
I enjoy histories – especially when delivered in the format that {{Gavin Menzies}} employed in “{{1421}} – The Year China Discovered America”. The only other history I have read in the past 5 years I can recall reading so fast was Gideon’s Spies. Gavin makes a compelling presentation, interpretation, application, and conclusion of a host …
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producing your own power by many
Rodale Press published a collected works book entitled “{{Producing Your Own Power}} – How to make Nature’s Energy Sources Work for You” in 1974. There are a host of now-humorous segments of the text: “The US government estimates that by 1980 1 percent of our country’s land will be covered with utility companies’ equipment” {viii}. The contiguous …
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swagbucks?
I’m trying to do some research regarding swagbucks, but so far haven’t found much about them – other than they appear to be legit. Are they the 2011 incarnation of iWon?
virtualization myth – reduction of servers
Ars Technica has had a great series of articles recently on virtualization (1 2 3 4 5). But a statement made in part 5 repeated what has been too-often stated as a benefit of virtualization: the reduction of servers, and associated management tasks – The benefits of performing a large-scale P2V conversion are pretty clear: …
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applied cryptography, 2d ed by bruce schneier
As recently promised, here is my review of {{Bruce Schneier}}’s seminal work, {{Applied Cryptography}} (2d edition). I received my now-signed copy of Applied Cryptography (2d ed) for my 16th birthday – about a year after it was published. Of all the “odd” books I asked-for when I was younger, this single volume had to take …
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the personifid project
It’s not often I read Christian fiction – too often some (or even most) the doctrines embraced and promulgated by the authors are not ones I agree with. I was very pleasantly surprised to fine that {{R E Bartlett}}’s book, {{The Personifid Project}} was not like that. It’s even a great example of science fiction, …
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avoiding and returning from bitterness
QOTD – “what is your biggest pet peeve?” Examples Gen 4:3-9 – Cain The first crime recorded was Cain’s murdering of his brother Abel because God showed favor to Abel’s offering and not to Cain’s. Cain was a farmer while Abel was an animal herder. After God directly confronts him about his anger and “fallen …
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qotd – 03 Apr 2011
I am filling-in this week in our Sunday School class LIFE group. So. This week’s “question of the day” is: what is your biggest pet peeve (or two if they’re tied / really close)?
menu analysis – burger king
Burger King has a new series of sandwiches called “stackers“. It’s a cheeseburger with bacon (and fairly tasty, as fast-food burger go). They come in three sizes: single, double, and triple. The single is $1, the double $2, and the triple $3. What do you get on the sandwich? A bun, patty, cheese, sauce, and …
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pascal’s pensĂ©es
{{Blaise Pascal}}, the famous mathematician, philosopher, and part-time theologian, is a fascinating member of history to me. Several years ago I borrowed a copy of his “{{PensĂ©es}}” from a friend, and skimmed it. At the time, I was impressed more with the randomness of the collection than with anything specific he wrote. A few days ago, …
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ip addresses for sale
Microsoft is trying to buy ~650k IPv4 addresses from in-bankruptcy-proceedings Nortel (for $7.5m). What gets me is that IPv6 has been a standard for over a decade, and yet so few have moved to it. Way back when I was in college the first time – in 2000 – our networking professor told us we …
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