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February 2023
- February 2023
Hello, everyone! Just a minor update with my life. Right now, I haven’t ...
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(February 28, 2023)
January 2023
- New music released
I have deleted these songs because sharing my music with the public is ...
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(January 28, 2023)
September 2022
- Chess on 9/11
On the 21st anniversary of September 11, I look at how online discussion ...
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(September 11, 2022)
- Baseless accusations
This blog is about the unfounded serious accusations being made against ...
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(September 06, 2022)
- Democracy
This blog is about the importance of retaining America’s democracy. Also,...
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(September 02, 2022)
August 2022
- Round-up
A round-up of various things in the second week of August, 2022. Alex ...
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(August 11, 2022)
July 2022
- J. Polgar v. Carlsen 2022
This month, Judit Polgar played reigning World Chess Champion Magnus ...
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(July 15, 2022)
June 2022
- Why I’m pro-choice
In this blog I explain that while I am, on a personal level, very deeply ...
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(June 25, 2022)
- Republicans are dying
In light of the nonsense passed by the Supreme Court today taking away a ...
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(June 24, 2022)
May 2022
- Remembering Vangelis
The legendary electronic musician Vangelis has died. I honor his memory. ...
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(May 19, 2022)
- Star Wars
May the 4th be with you! Also, I go over a short chess game. May the 4th ...
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(May 04, 2022)
April 2022
- Happy Easter!
Happy Easter! This blog is about my current thoughts on Chess variants, ...
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(April 17, 2022)
January 2022
- Nexuiz: Beer and pretzels
While there are a number of free and open source first person shooter ...
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(January 29, 2022)
- Variable optical size
I list some variable fonts, and discuss the second most popular 1980s song ...
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(January 09, 2022)
November 2021
- 1980s songs: Part two
I continue to talk about the five most popular 1980s songs on YouTube, and ...
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(November 07, 2021)
October 2021
- 1980s songs: Part one
I talk about 1980s songs on YouTube. This is part one of a series of ...
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(October 21, 2021)
September 2021
- AIDS and COVID-19
I remember the AIDS pandemic, and compare it to the current COVID-19 ...
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(September 26, 2021)
- Jerry Pournelle
This blog is written in honor of Jerry Pournelle’s legacy. While there ...
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(September 14, 2021)
- 9/11 20 years later
20 years ago today, September 11 happened. I remember this tragedy. Also, ...
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(September 11, 2021)
July 2021
- Delta surge
This blog is about the Delta surge of COVID-19, and why it can be ...
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(July 31, 2021)
June 2021
- My Karen Story
Now that decades have passed, I can finally tell my Karen story and its ...
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(June 06, 2021)
- Pride Month
In celebration of pride month, I talk about how watching the gay community ...
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(June 02, 2021)
April 2021
- The one true language
Lunacy is the one true programming language. April fools! Lunacy April ...
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(April 01, 2021)
March 2021
- Remembering Fry’s
Now that Fry’s is closed, I share some of my memories of this store. ...
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(March 08, 2021)
January 2021
- Insurrection
What Trump did on January 6 was an insurrection attempt. Its goal was to ...
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(January 16, 2021)
December 2020
- Moving to Ubuntu
This blog is about why I am changing the Linux distribution I use from ...
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(December 12, 2020)
November 2020
- November round-up
In this blog, I look at how well I predicted the election, how the United ...
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(November 28, 2020)
- More predictions
Some more predictions for tomorrow’s election. The approval ratings ...
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(November 02, 2020)
- 2020 election prediction #5
I make a final prediction for the 2020 election. My prediction My final ...
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(November 01, 2020)
October 2020
- Election prediction #3
I make another prediction of how the election will go. 424 words What a ...
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(October 04, 2020)
September 2020
- Ginsburg’s passing
This blog is about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing, and the political ...
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(September 18, 2020)
July 2020
- COVID-19 Website
I have created an entire website showing COVID-19 growth rates. This ...
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(July 14, 2020)
- Harper’s Letter
This blog is about A Letter on Justice and Open Debate which was published ...
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(July 09, 2020)
- COVID-19 growth by state
In the blog, I discuss COVID-19 growth across the US, and discuss why we ...
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(July 03, 2020)
June 2020
- Grab bag
This blog has an update on CHAZ, and discusses Stephen Hsu, Trump’s ...
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(June 23, 2020)
- Juneteenth
In light of the George Floyd protests, I am celebrating Juneteenth for the ...
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(June 19, 2020)
- Cancel Culture
One unfortunate side effect of the George Floyd protests is that the “...
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(June 16, 2020)
- COVID-19 and CHAZ
I discuss COVID-19 growth in San Diego and Seattle’s “CHAZ” ...
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(June 13, 2020)
- Empathy
This blog is about empathy, in light of current events. 348 words. Defund ...
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(June 12, 2020)
- Let’s keep the Police
This blog is about the importance of having a police department to reduce ...
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(June 10, 2020)
- Monday grab bag
I discuss Tim Cotton some more, and look at a mid-2010s article claiming ...
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(June 08, 2020)
April 2020
- COVID-19: Update
The doubling rate in San Diego is now over ten days long. This means the ...
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(April 11, 2020)
March 2020
- COVID-19: Good news
Some good news in San Diego: We are making progress controlling the spread ...
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(March 22, 2020)
- Stay home!
The COVID-19 virus is real. Stay at home as much as possible. This ...
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(March 16, 2020)
- Sanders should quit
In this blog, I explain why Sanders should had dropped out earlier today. ...
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(March 11, 2020)
- Bernie Bro myths
In this blog, I address some myths which vocal Bernie Sanders supporters ...
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(March 05, 2020)
February 2020
- Body for Life
In this blog, I review the book Body for Life by Bill Phillips. How I ...
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(February 01, 2020)
January 2020
- 2020s: Looking forward
I am looking forward to the 2020s. My personal resolution My personal ...
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(January 09, 2020)
December 2019
- The 2010s: A retrospective
I look back at the 2010s. The 2010s There have been a number of ...
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(December 12, 2019)
November 2019
- Richard Feynman
I discuss Richard Feynman and his legacy. Richard Feynman’s legacy I was ...
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(November 16, 2019)
September 2019
- September 11
Some thoughts on September 11 The technology of the time Wired magazine ...
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(September 12, 2019)
August 2019
- August round-up
This blog is a collection of thoughts I have had in August of 2019. HJSON: ...
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(August , 2019)
July 2019
- July round-up
Some thoughts I have posted in July of 2019. Why is there less sex? One ...
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(July 27, 2019)
June 2019
- June 2019 roundup
This blog is various thoughts I have had in June of 2019. Installing Node ...
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(June , 2019)
May 2019
- New album coming out
This blog is about my new album which is coming out. Wind and Spirit Wind ...
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(May 30, 2019)
December 2018
- ACA ruled unconstitutional
The ACA (Obamacare) has been ruled unconstitutional. Keep in mind that the ...
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(December 14, 2018)
- Remembering the first Bush
Yesterday, the first George Bush president died. I share my memories of ...
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(December 01, 2018)
October 2018
- The 5 best 1990s songs
Here are my favorite five songs from the 1990s. This is a continuation of ...
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(October 07, 2018)
September 2018
- Landing on the moon
This blog is about why we landed on the moon in 1969, and why it is many ...
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(September 22, 2018)
August 2018
- Password security
This blog is about making secure password for websites. The problem with ...
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(August 04, 2018)
July 2018
- Mango Naked Juice
I sometimes enjoy a Naked Juice Mango Smoothie. This particular juice has ...
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(July 07, 2018)
June 2018
- On Résumés
I discuss the format to have a résumé in, and the fonts to use. Use Word ...
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(June 02, 2018)
May 2018
- Configuration files
This blog is about some ways of formatting configuration files. The ...
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(May 05, 2018)
March 2018
- Phasing out email
I no longer have a link to my email address on my web page. Phasing out ...
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(March 10, 2018)
January 2018
- The ThinkPad T480
I look at the new Lenovo ThinkPad T480 laptop computer. Lenovo’s new ...
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(January 04, 2018)
December 2017
- Font Update
I have updated the font on my websites. Caulixtla2017: Bug fix I have ...
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(December 01, 2017)
October 2017
- Round up: October 2017
This blog is about unemployment and California’s political landscape. ...
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(October 26, 2017)
September 2017
- The night I found love
I remember my first date with Marina, my wife who died of breast cancer ...
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(September 12, 2017)
August 2017
- August 2017 round-up
This blog is about snopes.com, and about when to follow up if a company ...
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(August 12, 2017)
July 2017
- My job search
This blog is about what my most recent job search was like, and some of ...
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(July 08, 2017)
May 2017
- RIP Robert Miles
This is a story of how the musician Robert Miles, who just passed away, ...
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(May 10, 2017)
April 2017
- Trumpcare’s defeat
This blog is about “Trumpcare”, the fact that CDs give perfect sound, ...
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(April 03, 2017)
March 2017
- Cakewalk Sonar
I have purchased Cakewalk Sonar and will slowly make the transition away ...
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(March 11, 2017)
February 2017
- Jobs
It’s the economy, stupid. Let me explain. A retired pilot The year was ...
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(February 23, 2017)
November 2016
- Why the polls were wrong
Why did the polls get the 2016 presidential election results so wrong?...
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(November 14, 2016)
October 2016
- Trump is toast
In light of yesterday’s leaked audio of Trump saying some very crude and ...
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(October 08, 2016)
September 2016
- Album: Almost done
An update on my album project, the Star Trek movies, and a note on ...
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(September 19, 2016)
August 2016
- Christianity and bigotry
I originally wrote this right after the Orlando nightclub shooting, where ...
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(August 26, 2016)
June 2016
- The primary is over
Now that the Democratic primary is over, my thoughts on how it went and a ...
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(June 08, 2016)
May 2016
- Making music
This blog is about making music: Vinyl or CD, Bandcamp, and my up and ...
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(May 01, 2016)
April 2016
- RIP Prince and George Martin
This blog is a tribute to Prince, who died today, and to George Martin, ...
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(April 21, 2016)
March 2016
- Super Tuesday
After the Super Tuesday results, I have revised my presidential election ...
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(March 04, 2016)
February 2016
- Bernie Bro award
I preset for you the Bernie Bro award, for the most obnoxious and ...
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(February 28, 2016)
January 2016
- Winter NAMM 2016
This blog is about this year’s winter National Association of Music ...
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(January 29, 2016)
November 2015
- Round up
This blog is a quick round-up for November of 2015. France My prayers are ...
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(November 30, 2015)
July 2015
- God is Not a Bigot
God is not a bigot. I will explain why, using scripture. Luke 10:25-28 ...
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(July 24, 2015)
April 2015
- The Roland TB-303
There is only one time in my life that I saw a real Roland TB-303 ...
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(April 14, 2015)
March 2015
- More King v. Burwell & Star Trek
Here are some other predictions for King v. Burwell, and reviews for four ...
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(March 17, 2015)
- King v. Burwell; Star Trek
In today’s blog, I explain why I think King v. Burwell will be ruled for ...
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(March 06, 2015)
February 2015
- King v. Burwell: Vogon Logic
In order to accept the logic opposing ACA subsidies put forth in King v. ...
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(February 28, 2015)
- Superfish
Last Thursday, the Internet’s daily two minutes hate was directed ...
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(February 24, 2015)
- Thinkpad mouse buttons
Now that Lenovo has restored the mouse buttons for trackpoint users in ...
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(February 15, 2015)
- Goodbye Radio Shack
Now that Radio Shack has declared bankruptcy, here is my eulogy for the ...
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(February 06, 2015)
November 2014
- The 2014 midterms
As a whole, Democrats did a lot better than they did in 2010, when they ...
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(November 05, 2014)
September 2014
- Best 80s Music
January 2015 update: Edgar Froese, front man of Tangerine Dream, whose ...
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(September 25, 2014)
August 2014
- People like the ACA
The fact of the matter is this: People like the ACA (Obamacare). The ...
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(August 07, 2014)
July 2014
- Women against feminism
I look at what modern feminism has become and why women in droves are ...
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(July 31, 2014)
- PT Sans and PT Serif
In today’s blog, I give PT Serif and to a lesser extent PT Sans a more ...
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(July 19, 2014)
- Bitstream Charter and more
In today’s blog, I discuss the typeface update for my web site, the band ...
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(July 04, 2014)
June 2014
- The best open-source fonts
In this blog, I list the best open-source fonts out there, discuss getting ...
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(June 21, 2014)
- Fonts in 2014
In today's blog, I discuss web fonts in 2014. New in 2014 Both Firefox and ...
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(June 11, 2014)
May 2014
- Miguel: In Memorandum
Marina, my wife, and her mother first met Miguel, a cat who looked like a ...
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(May 24, 2014)
April 2014
- Alpine in CentOS
This blog is about how I set up Alpine, an easy-to-use text-based mail ...
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(April 23, 2014)
- The “Heartbleed” bug
I briefly discuss the “Heartbleed” bug, and why my https certificate ...
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(April 12, 2014)
March 2014
- Gravity: A review
I finally had a chance to see "Gravity" last night ... a local big-screen ...
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(March 14, 2014)
January 2014
- Returning to Fresno
I lived in Fresno for three years to get my degree in Computational ...
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(January 28, 2014)
- 2014 goals
This blog looks at some of my goals for 2014. Returning to the gym I got a ...
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(January 01, 2014)
December 2013
- 2013 in review
2013 was a good year in a lot of ways. Here are my personal ...
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(December 31, 2013)
- New Cousine/MSYS font
I have converted the 7x14 version of the misc-fixed bitmap font to a ...
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(December 15, 2013)
- More font updates
Yesterday, I mentioned that I was having technical problems with the ...
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(December 14, 2013)
- Better fonts for MSYS
I discuss how to get better looking fonts for Microsoft Windows and MSYS. ...
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(December 13, 2013)
- Using Crissic
I have been having a lot of problems with AlienVPS -- the only active node ...
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(December 11, 2013)
- Interactive Fiction
Back in 2007, I wrote a couple of interactive fiction adventures for the ...
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(December 10, 2013)
November 2013
- Living in poverty
I'm not going to play the X things you don't know about me game that is ...
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(November 23, 2013)
- An ode to Netbooks
In an alternate universe, all of the major tech news sites would be ...
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(November 17, 2013)
October 2013
- More on SipHash
This blog attempts to better explain why SipHash was created. SipHash in ...
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(October 12, 2013)
- My SipHash implementation
In my last blog entry, I mentioned a fairly new cryptographic primitive ...
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(October 06, 2013)
September 2013
- IPv6 update
I have updated my servers to more fully use IPv6. To wit: All domain names ...
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(September 15, 2013)
- Mailbag
Naida Gonzalez writes the following about La Tempestad: I stopped watching ...
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(September 12, 2013)
- Forum spammers
Even though the forum has only been up since Sunday, and only linked to ...
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(September 04, 2013)
August 2013
- VirtualBox’s host-only adapter
How to fix VirtualBox’s host-only adapter when it breaks down in Windows ...
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(August 26, 2013)
- Microblogs August 2013
This blog is an archive of all of my microblogs posted between July 30 and ...
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(August 18, 2013)
July 2013
- Microblogs June-July 2013
These are the microblogs I posted between June 5 and July 17, 2013. We now ...
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(July 28, 2013)
- La Tempestad: A review
In this blog, I look at the Spanish-language novela “La Tempestad” and ...
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(July 21, 2013)
June 2013
- Alternate Pitfall maps
This blog entry is my final look at Pitfall’s map generator. In this ...
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(June 17, 2013)
- More on Pitfall’s polynomial
In this blog, I continue looking at Pitfall's random number generator. ...
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(June 16, 2013)
- Pitfall’s polynomial
In this blog, I continue looking at Pitfall's random number generator. ...
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(June 12, 2013)
- Pitfall redux
In this blog, I discuss Pitfall's random number generator by looking at 8-...
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(June 08, 2013)
- A 4096-byte jungle
In 1982, the video game to have was Activision’s Pitfall, which featured ...
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(June 06, 2013)
- Microblogs May 2013
In this batch of microblogs, I have spolier-free reviews of the new Star ...
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(June 04, 2013)
May 2013
- Microblogs April-May 2013
Here are the Microblogs I posted between April 15, 2013 and May 5, 2013. ...
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(May 05, 2013)
April 2013
- Microblogs April 2013 week 2
In my microblogs for the second week of April, I discuss living in Mexico, ...
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(April 15, 2013)
- Microblogs April 2013 week 1
This is an archive of my microblog postings for the first week of April, ...
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(April 07, 2013)
March 2013
- March 2013 Microblogs
Here are all of the microblog postings I made in March 2013. I discuss ...
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(March 30, 2013)
- Tweets March 2013
I am moving away from Twitter and to using my own code for microblogs. ...
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(March 29, 2013)
- Why I need Masculism
This is my explanation for feminists who get upset whenever I use the #...
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(March 16, 2013)
- Creeper cards
In today's blog, I discuss those creeper cards which have recently been ...
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(March 07, 2013)
- Twitter wrap-up
In today's blog, I go over tweets from my Twitter feed posted in February. ...
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(March 01, 2013)
February 2013
- Netbooks in 2013
In today's blog, I discuss netbooks in 2013. Netbooks are not dead While ...
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(February 17, 2013)
- Applebee's and God
Recently, there was a pastor who went to Applebee's. While there, she ...
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(February 05, 2013)
- Web font rendering
In today's blog, I will discuss web font rendering on Chrome, and the work ...
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(February 03, 2013)
January 2013
- Thank you, Virginia
This is an email I sent out earlier today Mark Obenshain, Ralph Smith, ...
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(January 31, 2013)
- BuyVM: All is now good
Just a brief note that all is now well with BuyVM at Fiberhub. Everything ...
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(January 24, 2013)
- samiam.org on IPv6
With the inevitable transition to IPv6 looming, and with IPv6 support on ...
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(January 06, 2013)
- Minor Civ4 update
I have been starting to play Civilization 4 again and have made a minor ...
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(January 05, 2013)
- Finally, I have BuyVM
Last year, I complained that it was impossible to get a BuyVM node. ...
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(January 01, 2013)
December 2012
- 2012 wrap-up
2012 has been a good year. While I only devote one day a month to MaraDNS, ...
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(December 31, 2012)
- How many squares?
There's a puzzle making the rounds on social networks where one needs to ...
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(December 19, 2012)
- Blog meta-index
Today's blog is an index of previous blog entries. Every now and then, I ...
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(December 01, 2012)
November 2012
- Adios, Gopher
A few months ago, I put up a Gopher server. Today, I have shut down the ...
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(November 30, 2012)
- Let's not secede
I agree with fundamental conservative principles: I agree that if we do ...
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(November 14, 2012)
- Obama: Looking forward
As an Obama supporter, the last thing I want to do is gloat right now. I ...
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(November 07, 2012)
- Post-election thoughts
As I write this, Romney is making his concession speech; I will discuss ...
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(November 06, 2012)
- Final election prediction
Since Nate's numbers are looking better and better for Obama every day, ...
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(November 04, 2012)
- Saturday election prediction
With only three days until the election, here's my prediction, again based ...
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(November 03, 2012)
- Keccak: The best choice
In today's blog, I discuss the Keccak hash, and why it was the best choice ...
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(November 01, 2012)
October 2012
- Saturday election prediction
In today's prediction, I am using Nate Silver's numbers from yesterday ...
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(October 27, 2012)
- Friday election prediction
In tonight's prediction, I am using Nate Silver's numbers from yesterday ...
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(October 26, 2012)
- Saturday election prediction
In tonight's prediction, I am using Nate Silver's numbers from yesterday ...
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(October 20, 2012)
- Thursday election prediction
In tonight's prediction, I am using NerdWallet's numbers from today. This ...
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(October 18, 2012)
- Wednesday election prediction
In tonight's prediction, I am using Nate Silver's numbers from yesterday (...
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(October 17, 2012)
- Tonight's election prediction
I am using Huffpost's numbers for today (pre-debate) for tonight's ...
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(October 16, 2012)
- Predicting the election
I am discussing politics again. As per my previous promise, I will not ...
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(October 15, 2012)
- Why is Git still using SHA-1
Back in 2008, Dancho Danchev praised MaraDNS, my DNS implementation, for ...
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(October 04, 2012)
September 2012
- Slashdot: A final look
In today's blog, I wrap my series on Slashdot which I have written about ...
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(September 29, 2012)
- Web typography
In today's blog, I discuss the current state of web typography, and some ...
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(September 18, 2012)
- Remembering September 11
For people like my stepmother who have a birthday today, their birthday ...
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(September 11, 2012)
- Multi Master fonts
In today's blog, I discuss a new open-source Multi Master font, as well as ...
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(September 08, 2012)
- Slashdot and more
In today's blog, I discuss changing fonts on my webpage, my SSD hard disk ...
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(September 07, 2012)
- Slashdot
Slashdot has been a guilty pleasure of mine ever since it came out. Indeed,...
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(September 03, 2012)
- No more politics
I have made a decision to no longer post or comment publicly about my ...
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(September 01, 2012)
August 2012
- The great recession
If I were to blame the housing bubble and subsequent recession on any ...
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(August 18, 2012)
- Objective truth is going away
Geroge Orwell lamented, in his essay "Looking back on the Spanish War", ...
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(August 14, 2012)
- Adding Facebook comments
Comments are difficult to deal with. I had to turn off comments on the old ...
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(August 06, 2012)
- George Orwell and the truth
One thing I find very disgusting about today's politics is how easily ...
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(August 02, 2012)
July 2012
- Finally, a CVE-2012-1911 patch
After nearly five months, there is a patch for CVE-2012-1911. The patch ...
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(July 11, 2012)
June 2012
- Legends of Ancient Arabia
In today's blog entry, I review the Legends of Ancient Arabia (LoAA) ...
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(June 11, 2012)
May 2012
- On Civilization IV
I have begun work on Totestra, which is my modifications to a Civilization ...
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(May 10, 2012)
- Inspiron 14z sound problem
I had a bizarre problem on a Dell Inspiron 14z with a Conexant SmartAudio ...
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(May 08, 2012)
April 2012
- Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day, a 1993 movie starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, is ...
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(April 08, 2012)
- Humility
Humility is not thinking less of myself; it is thinking of myself less. To ...
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(April 02, 2012)
March 2012
- The mythical $15/year VPS
In this blog, I briefly go over low-cost VMs, discuss the non-availability ...
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(March 27, 2012)
- A thought
I am responsible for every resentment I have. This doesn't mean I am at ...
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(March 25, 2012)
- The ghost domain bug
In today's blog entry, I look at the ghost domain bug, and how various DNS ...
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(March 14, 2012)
- On Anne Frank
In today's blog, I discuss Anne Frank's fate in the world of a ...
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(March 07, 2012)
- Remembering 1992
In today's blog, I share a Bible verse, and reminisce about the ...
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(March 06, 2012)
- Geomyidae is stable
In an earlier blog entry, I implied that Geomyidae, the gopher daemon I am ...
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(March 05, 2012)
- On fundamentalist reasoning
This blog entry looks at an event in the Bible which is widely regarded as ...
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(March 04, 2012)
February 2012
- Fundamentalism & Christianity
Everyone has a soapbox The advantage of the internet is that it lets ...
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(February 25, 2012)
- Bulk polyhedral dice
Buying dice After a 20-year hiatus, I am starting to play role playing ...
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(February 18, 2012)
- Classic X11 fonts for Windows
For people, like myself, who are fans of the classic X11 font misc-fixed, ...
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(February 16, 2012)
- RedHat extended support
I just found out today that RedHat has added three years to the support ...
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(February 15, 2012)
- Happy Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine's day everyone. For people happily in relationships, today ...
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(February 14, 2012)
- My Gopher server
As a geek, I sometimes have an interest in technologies and forms of ...
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(February 06, 2012)
- A brief review of my VPS hosts
I will briefly review the four VPS hosts I have used. A VPS, or virtual ...
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(February 05, 2012)
- Adios cripperz.sg
One of the three nodes I have used for hosting my domains (samiam.org, ...
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(February 03, 2012)
January 2012
- Having a spiritual experience
I did not write this entry. This entry was written by Abhinabha Tangerman ...
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(January 30, 2012)
- I oppose SOPA
On the right, you can see a picture of me in San Jose protesting the DMCA ...
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(January 19, 2012)
December 2011
- I miss killfiles
Usenet and killfiles Once upon a time, before the world wide web, the ...
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(December 22, 2011)
- Looking at Celery
In today's blog entry, I describe how to have cloud (distributed) ...
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(December 20, 2011)
- Round Up
In today's blog entry, I discuss SOPA, a bug in MaraDNS, revising my web ...
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(December 17, 2011)
- Round-up
Today's blog discusses giving modern CSS to IE8, my site's browser usage ...
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(December 16, 2011)
- Web page design update
As I have mentioned before, I am not completely satisfied with how this ...
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(December 09, 2011)
November 2011
- The Galileo 7
There is a classic episode from the original Star Trek named The Galileo ...
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(November 05, 2011)
- Logic riddles
There is a classic logic puzzle out there which is often not worded ...
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(November 04, 2011)
October 2011
- Dennis Ritchie RIP
Just a few short days after Steve Jobs' sad passing, the great Dennis ...
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(October 13, 2011)
- Web site plans
Looking ahead While smartphone views are currently only a small percentage ...
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(October 12, 2011)
- On web site design
CNet's new design I must say, I really like the new web site design that ...
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(October 10, 2011)
- RIP Steve Jobs
Yesterday's passing of Steve Jobs has greatly saddened me. When he left ...
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(October 06, 2011)
- Cloak of Darkness
Interactive fiction Once upon a time, long long ago, the preferred method ...
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(October 02, 2011)
September 2011
- Open-source IMAP clients
For my work, I had to find a good open-source IMAP client that runs in ...
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(September 10, 2011)
- Random map templates
I have made two RMG templates suitable for the recent patches to make ...
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(September 01, 2011)
August 2011
- Global warming denial
Everyone is welcome to have an opinion. And, indeed, there are a number of ...
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(August 27, 2011)
- On Apple products
First and foremost, now that Steve Jobs is leaving Apple, my prayers are ...
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(August 26, 2011)
- Keeping CentOS secure
One annoyance CentOS has is that, whenever Red Hat makes a new upstream ...
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(August 09, 2011)
July 2011
- Web typography
2014 update: A combination of Windows XP hitting end-of-life, ttfautohint, ...
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(July 19, 2011)
- GOG HOMM3 Multiplayer
It is really nice that gog.com has made a legal DRM-free version of Heroes ...
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(July 10, 2011)
- Updating the ads
After running ads on Samiam.org for a week, I have enough data to get a ...
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(July 03, 2011)
- Tuning nginx + php-fastcgi
This article talks about the dark art of making a webpage with a lot of ...
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(July 02, 2011)
June 2011
- Samiam.org now has ads
In order to have samiam.org no longer be an expense but instead be a self-...
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(June 28, 2011)
- IE8 @font-face bug
Since @font-face is a relatively new tag, there are a few bugs with its ...
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(June 19, 2011)
- Webkit @font-face bug
2014 update: This bug has been fixed for a while As I was testing the ...
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(June 06, 2011)
May 2011
- Embedding web fonts
For years, web designers have been forced to select from a very limited ...
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(May 28, 2011)
- Beware: O'Reilly reviews
Update (May 28): O'Reilly can not contact Power Reviews about this issue ...
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(May 26, 2011)
- App Inventor
By David Wolber, Hal Abelson, Ellen Spertus, and Liz Looney App Inventor: ...
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(May 25, 2011)
- The Rapture
Despite Harold Camping's predictions, the Rapture did not happen today. ...
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(May 21, 2011)
- Web page redesign
I am wrapping up the 2011 redesign of the web page and blog. I started by ...
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(May 17, 2011)
- Facebook viruses
One of my friends in Facebook recently got stung by a virus; I was able to ...
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(May 15, 2011)
- Mobile browsers
When I originally designed the HTML and CSS for this webpage, cell phone ...
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(May 14, 2011)
- Poor man's Widelux
One of Jeff Bridges' favorite cameras is the "Widelux". The Widelux is a ...
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(May 03, 2011)
- Firefox and Javascript
Since my current gig is having me do a lot of heavy Javascript programming,...
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(May 01, 2011)
April 2011
- On NXDOMAIN
Some feel that NXDOMAIN should not only mean "this host name does not ...
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(April 23, 2011)
- IE6 end of life
Now that Microsoft has a site telling people to no longer use Internet ...
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(April 17, 2011)
- du for Windows
One thing that has always annoyed me is that the version of MSYS I use (...
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(April 10, 2011)
- On Xonotic
Once upon a time, there was a real cool open-source first-person-shooter ...
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(April 09, 2011)
March 2011
- Bitcoin
Bitcoin may be illegal. Bitcoin is an attempt to create an alternative ...
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(March 23, 2011)
- On nuclear power
For society to continue to function, we need to continue to have power. ...
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(March 15, 2011)
- Automating the blog
I am in the process of updating the blog. I am still keeping the files as ...
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(March 06, 2011)
February 2011
- Public domain Bibles
Poking around on the internet, I have found a few copyright-free (or, in ...
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(February 10, 2011)
January 2011
- On the US Constitution
Going through my old blogs, I found a blog which is very interesting, in ...
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(January 30, 2011)
- Goodbye MySpace
I haven't used my myspace account in a while; in April of 2010, I posted ...
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(January 26, 2011)
- Usenet
A year and a half ago, I posted that Usenet is dead. I was only partially ...
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(January 11, 2011)
- djbdns 1.05: False security
I would like to start off this blog posting by pointing out that djbdns' ...
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(January 03, 2011)
December 2010
- Final 2010 post; NIV update
This will be my last blog posting for 2010, so a quick recap of the major ...
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(December 25, 2010)
- Windows on ARM chips
Every couple of decades, Microsoft ports Windows to some non-x86 chip. The ...
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(December 24, 2010)