Blog Archive 2012 IPv6 launch day May 18 2012 PyCon 2012 Mar 16 2012 A decent boxed wine Feb 29 2012 Comments enabled on all posts Feb 25 2012 Migrating away from Google Feb 24 2012 Simple image uploads for Octopress Feb 24 2012 Aetna #fail Feb 24 2012 The diminished value of IEEE and ACM subscriptions Feb 24 2012 Added email subscriptions to the site Feb 24 2012 Adding Disqus to Confluence Feb 15 2012 New CSL Arduino posting Feb 10 2012 New site for used car shopping Feb 07 2012 Adding site stats via Mint Feb 05 2012 Adding comments via Disqus Feb 05 2012 LSI and rb-gsl Feb 01 2012 Moving to Octopress Feb 01 2012 More on the firewall Jan 27 2012 Why I love my new firewall Jan 22 2012 New firewall router! Jan 13 2012 2011 Other reasons to miss Argentina Dec 29 2011 Skylight/stairwell Dec 29 2011 Me and Diego Dec 29 2011 Mean machine Dec 29 2011 Walk the corporate plank Dec 29 2011 Sysadmin sterotypes Dec 28 2011 WordPress fixed Dec 27 2011 Wordpress update and news Dec 27 2011 More Arduino goodness Dec 07 2011 Science is Freaking Awesome Dec 02 2011 Debian update broke dailystrips Nov 24 2011 Me being smug Oct 21 2011 Decent wine in a bag? Oct 15 2011 Server hard drive upgraded Oct 09 2011 Router upgraded Oct 01 2011 2400 baud, baby! Sep 02 2011 Here’s a dot-com idea for you Jul 15 2011 If you can read this… Jun 16 2011 New desk: the hack zone Jun 06 2011 MacBook Air 13 Jun 01 2011 The unsung iMac May 31 2011 WiFi interference, anyone? May 31 2011 How to show a weather forecast May 31 2011 Decent USB SD card reader May 23 2011 Really? May 23 2011 Pimp your MacBookPro May 04 2011 Interesting trends in hard drive prices May 04 2011 Moar Speed! Apr 30 2011 MarsEdit test Apr 30 2011 Arduino+OSX+RXTX bug and fix Mar 16 2011 Debugging WordPress Mar 05 2011 Man, I love Python sometimes Feb 21 2011 Kaizen Feb 12 2011 How is this even possible?! Feb 11 2011 A tasty programming morsel Feb 04 2011 Ham radio update Jan 31 2011 Boo-tay! Jan 04 2011 2010 Steelworkers and iconic photographs Dec 28 2010 Shavin’ a sheep, gettin’ all myst-y eyed Dec 27 2010 More Amazing Times Dec 16 2010 Robot cart! Dec 12 2010 Pedobear in the NYT Dec 09 2010 Anyone else having Photoshop CS3 errors? Nov 22 2010 Review of the Yema YMFH0303 dive watch Nov 21 2010 Art Nov 01 2010 Honesty Oct 27 2010 Music recommendation Oct 19 2010 Killer new mashup tune (and video) Oct 01 2010 A new licorice source Sep 25 2010 More on code and productivity Sep 22 2010 Still playing ultimate Aug 29 2010 Ancient geek humor Aug 16 2010 Sun rise or sun set? Jul 19 2010 Candid Cat movie Jun 30 2010 Aphorism for the day Jun 10 2010 Lots and lots and lots of pixels on a macbook Jun 04 2010 More Arduino - really bright lights Jun 03 2010 A look at productivity and metrics May 25 2010 Aphorism for today May 11 2010 Weather station code posted at github Apr 19 2010 Best timezone site I’ve seen yet Apr 15 2010 Welcome to the future. Sell your TV now. Apr 07 2010 Real-time audio manipulation Mar 29 2010 Site outages - routing failing Mar 18 2010 Fnord! Mar 12 2010 Last batch of Hong Kong pictures Mar 10 2010 More Hong Kong snaps Mar 10 2010 Korean BBQ in Hong Kong Mar 05 2010 More tips for visiting Hong Kong Mar 05 2010 Apple and attention to detail Feb 03 2010 Good music, for free. Really. Jan 30 2010 Random snapshot Jan 14 2010 Boss/laser jump key Jan 11 2010 2009 A nice interview on STL, coding and algorithms Dec 25 2009 New ssh attack is out there Dec 08 2009 WatchOtaku.com is live! Dec 04 2009 A quick Nexuiz tip Dec 03 2009 Charles goes native Dec 01 2009 Light emitting diode fail Dec 01 2009 Just right weather forecasts Nov 18 2009 Site updates Nov 12 2009 New laptop notes Nov 11 2009 That took a while Oct 11 2009 A brief aphorism for today Oct 03 2009 Best freebie yet Sep 27 2009 It’s just not the same Sep 25 2009 Fnord through the years, a nerd saga Sep 21 2009 Fnord reimagined Sep 20 2009 Two really, really good essays Sep 18 2009 Colorado! Sep 12 2009 WordPress exploit on the rampage Sep 05 2009 Have fun! Sep 03 2009 Network upgrade Aug 11 2009 A small chuckle Aug 06 2009 Review of the Halios Holotype dive watch Jul 29 2009 Paul wins an iPhone! Jul 23 2009 Demented musical taste Jul 16 2009 fnord goes iPhone Jul 10 2009 Afternoon chuckle Jul 10 2009 The many looks of the Unitas 6498 Jun 30 2009 Out the window Jun 27 2009 Useful zsh tricks Jun 26 2009 Arduino datalogger is up! Jun 23 2009 Mac page updated and edited Jun 18 2009 Snake! Jun 16 2009 Stowa Marine Original Limited Edition II Jun 16 2009 Arduino and Twisted Jun 15 2009 Progress on the Arduino Jun 10 2009 Arduino! Jun 08 2009 WHOIS spam May 13 2009 I hate consumer-grade networking May 09 2009 The downsides of neophilia May 07 2009 Culture commentary and literate references… in car reviews Apr 17 2009 Something you don’t see every day Apr 17 2009 Cohen! Apr 08 2009 Coming soon to a theater near me Apr 05 2009 Small but useful things: Skim PDF reader Mar 27 2009 phfactor network update Mar 26 2009 phfactor speedup Mar 23 2009 A new lease on life for the G-P Gyromatic Mar 07 2009 In case of zombie apocalypse, wear this Mar 04 2009 Conspiracy fodder - why does Ralph’s need an x-ray? Feb 27 2009 Found an old picture today Feb 27 2009 OSX server…legit…for four days Feb 24 2009 DisplayPort dual-link DVI glitch Feb 22 2009 How to diagnose insanity Feb 18 2009 Python continues to impress Feb 12 2009 Some things are harder than you expect Feb 11 2009 Concrete perlage Feb 08 2009 Spammer tricks and exploits: A modern taxonomy Feb 01 2009 A snapshot, literally Jan 31 2009 Ze power of Python Jan 22 2009 You Complete Me Jan 20 2009 Added Twitter to the sidebar Jan 19 2009 Best of Bootie 2008 is out! Jan 08 2009 Inbound! Jan 06 2009 An amazing tea discovery Jan 04 2009 2008 Thoughts on the US and Hong Kong Dec 28 2008 That didn’t take long… Amazon EC2 as a hack tool Dec 24 2008 What does this mean? Dec 18 2008 The other Hong Kong watch: Vintage Girard-Perragaux Gyromatic Dec 09 2008 Review of a generic Chinese chronograph Dec 09 2008 Too-ahh-reg Dec 09 2008 Because nothing says Web 2.0… Dec 04 2008 Why can’t I find this firewall? Nov 17 2008 Hmm. Home server/router pondering Nov 17 2008 Cacti, SNMP, Airport Express and MIB: A quiet leap forward Nov 14 2008 Laptop Go Fast Nov 09 2008 It *can’t* be this hard Nov 05 2008 Do you have too much time on your hands? Nov 05 2008 How to define ‘ironic’ Nov 04 2008 Stalking the USPS, or “The Waiting” Nov 01 2008 Fructose versus glucose in your diet Oct 31 2008 CUDA on the MacBook Aluminum Oct 28 2008 Amidst the upgrade, a quietly amusing message Oct 24 2008 Quick links of interest Oct 19 2008 Travel porn Oct 17 2008 The creativity of my co-workers Oct 17 2008 Lauren nails the crisis Sep 29 2008 A book to read before you vote this November Sep 23 2008 Hong Kong pictures posted! Sep 15 2008 Mechanical watch porn Sep 14 2008 An aphorism for the day Sep 14 2008 Microblogging update Sep 13 2008 What is a poet? Sep 11 2008 Blog Is Broken. Sep 03 2008 Never do email on the stairs Sep 01 2008 I seem to be addicted to RSS Aug 28 2008 How bad can it get? Aug 25 2008 Doin’ OK myself, thanks Aug 25 2008 Anna lawn and kumquats Aug 24 2008 Printer’s Progress Aug 15 2008 Progress in ray tracing Aug 15 2008 Taking a break Jul 30 2008 Weird stuff at UCSD surplus Jul 27 2008 A gorgeous new oldie Jul 23 2008 Luck and embarassment Jul 16 2008 Man, sometimes I feel really dumb. Jul 16 2008 Double take Jul 05 2008 Elbow gedanken Jul 02 2008 A personal milestone achieved Jun 28 2008 FuseCal, a useful solution to an urban traffic problem Jun 26 2008 Firefox 3, mixed results so far Jun 23 2008 Experiments in HDR imaging Jun 23 2008 Well, that’s damned clever Jun 23 2008 What a difference a single letter makes. And a week. Jun 13 2008 Costa Rica pictures posted Jun 10 2008 Why I probably won’t be getting an iPhone 3G Jun 10 2008 Progress… May 29 2008 Fun! May 27 2008 Bouganvilla on Vermont street today May 25 2008 Another way to look at a conference May 18 2008 JavaOne and MBARI trip pictures May 18 2008 Anna versus the Suunto May 18 2008 Anna starts daycare Monday May 16 2008 Artmobile! May 15 2008 A post to move you May 15 2008 Fly me to the moon May 14 2008 Rampant sexism still flourishes May 13 2008 A new wave of botnet attacks May 12 2008 A bit of juvenile SUV humor May 10 2008 Things you *don’t* want from a conference May 09 2008 I can’t help but think… May 08 2008 Secure websurfing via SSH and SOCKS May 01 2008 Anna versus the g-shock May 01 2008 Email downtime and bounces on phfactor Apr 27 2008 Sucks to be tall sometimes Apr 24 2008 A review of the Yes Inca wristwatch Apr 22 2008 An aphorism for today Apr 22 2008 Yet Another Seiko post… but it’s different Apr 22 2008 No new watches for a bit Apr 20 2008 Ages ago, in a tango hall far, far away Apr 18 2008 Asleep in the hall Apr 16 2008 A killer side gig Apr 16 2008 Anna in the park Apr 12 2008 National Poetry Month! Apr 10 2008 Yowza! Apr 09 2008 A much-improved dive watch band Apr 07 2008 Spring in Illinois! Apr 06 2008 A milestone of sorts Apr 05 2008 More on Python and generosity Apr 04 2008 More site updates Apr 04 2008 The foot, the baby and the cat Apr 04 2008 KI6PKN Apr 03 2008 Market-ing Mar 30 2008 Ham radio class Mar 29 2008 Microblogging Mar 28 2008 It’s Easter, and I am not content Mar 28 2008 Geeks! Mar 28 2008 Fnord is now fnord.phfactor.net Mar 27 2008 Ever wonder how a quartz crystal is made? Mar 27 2008 Fnord will be hosed for a bit. Sorry. Mar 26 2008 Might have to go back to Safari for a bit Mar 26 2008 A couple of quick blog-worthy items Mar 25 2008 Easter dress and family portrait Mar 24 2008 Python YouTube downloader Mar 23 2008 Monster page of new-baby-recommendations Mar 22 2008 Life today in our house Mar 22 2008 Where my watch came from Mar 20 2008 Ouch Mar 19 2008 New NIN isn’t bad Mar 18 2008 More hail from Sunday Mar 17 2008 Anna loves her stroller Mar 17 2008 Hail in San diego! Mar 16 2008 Anna playing Mar 14 2008 Missing flying Mar 11 2008 It wasn’t that long ago Mar 11 2008 Hallelujah Mar 10 2008 A bit of humor for Dr Chuck Mar 10 2008 Laugh-out-loud chemistry humor Mar 05 2008 New travel site Mar 03 2008 Usul upgrade Mar 03 2008 Breakfast out with Deb Mar 01 2008 Now this is a Freudian advertisement Feb 29 2008 More pictures up finally Feb 29 2008 Might be time to upgrade the wireless Feb 29 2008 A quick chuckle Feb 28 2008 One possible fate of the housing bubble expansion Feb 27 2008 Random Anna picture for y’all Feb 20 2008 A/V guides to various cities Feb 19 2008 With fear and trembling… the iPhone update & hack Feb 17 2008 Which way is up? Feb 16 2008 Free VMWare/Parallels, open source even! Feb 15 2008 Close to home, literally Feb 15 2008 Hmm, maybe I can use 1.1.3 after all Feb 13 2008 Ahh, the perils of Windows on an IP network Feb 11 2008 There are still good people out there Feb 11 2008 Ahh, the amusement value of cruelty Feb 10 2008 All about food coloring Feb 07 2008 A new crypto tile appears Feb 05 2008 Dinner out with Sameer and George Feb 04 2008 More Paul furniture Feb 03 2008 Two things I just don’t get: Mozart and light-roast coffee Feb 03 2008 OpenID, Paypal and Ebay Feb 01 2008 Dang, I knew I had forgotten to post something Jan 31 2008 Trying out Google code hosting Jan 30 2008 Social commentary in Hillcrest Jan 29 2008 Self-portrait Jan 28 2008 This one is for Sarah Jan 27 2008 This one made me think Jan 21 2008 Something new and good from the Internet Jan 19 2008 For those of you who have children Jan 18 2008 What *is* he doing? Jan 15 2008 Sometimes I miss Illinois Jan 13 2008 Lunch with Sameer at Mission Cafe Jan 12 2008 Expect some downtime here soon Jan 09 2008 There are many kinds of happiness Jan 07 2008 Back up again Jan 06 2008 New home sysadmin rules Jan 05 2008 A wee bit of CSS/theme editing Jan 03 2008 Best of Bootie 2007 is out! Jan 03 2008 For those of you who’ve been to Cabrillo Monument Jan 01 2008 A fun way to waste time Jan 01 2008 2007 I’m a little slow sometimes Dec 28 2007 Dinner time! Dec 27 2007 A new cousin joins the family! Dec 25 2007 Thanksgiving pictures are up Dec 24 2007 Point Loma at sunset again Dec 24 2007 Off to the zoo Dec 24 2007 Reading in the sun Dec 22 2007 On the possible motives of a Tourneau salesman Dec 21 2007 A perfect metaphor for the last few weeks Dec 20 2007 Vintage, classic and cheap: Paul scores a Certina. Dec 07 2007 More SC coolness - mini solar car! Dec 04 2007 One for Christopher Dec 02 2007 Dang, this has gotten cheap Nov 29 2007 New iPhone mid-summer 2008? Nov 29 2007 Thanksgiving pictures of the nieces Nov 26 2007 Bourne shell server pages… Nov 26 2007 Snapshots from Supercomputing 2007 Nov 20 2007 Yet another way to build a cluster Nov 20 2007 iBook drive upgrade Nov 19 2007 Dinner is messy sometimes Nov 18 2007 Reno humor Nov 13 2007 Supercomputing keynote Nov 13 2007 Mormons and Nobel-winning economists, oh my Nov 10 2007 Macbook pro hard drive upgrade Nov 10 2007 Ooops Nov 08 2007 A new-old book of aphorisms Nov 08 2007 Kill the glass dock! Nov 07 2007 Great parenting quote Nov 07 2007 Aphorisms for today Nov 05 2007 Fnord updates and mod_rewrite Nov 03 2007 Review of the V-moda Vibe Duo iPhone earphones Nov 02 2007 Fire wrapup and time-lapse videos Oct 31 2007 Another day at the office, with toys Oct 29 2007 More fire information Oct 25 2007 Cool fire picture from Neybur Oct 25 2007 More fire satellite images Oct 25 2007 One more sidebar to try Oct 24 2007 A quick laugh Oct 24 2007 Same place, keeping her distance Oct 24 2007 Man, all cars really look the same these days Oct 24 2007 Farmer’s market last Sunday Oct 24 2007 Anna’s rose blooming Oct 24 2007 Fire and flood on the same day Oct 24 2007 Fnord update - misc bits Oct 24 2007 Pictures from Qualcomm, Rancho Bernardo and more Oct 24 2007 San Diego fire - more exact sources Oct 24 2007 Fire update and more links Oct 24 2007 San Diego is burning again - info Oct 22 2007 Paul, leading edge once again Oct 18 2007 New features in OSX 10.5 Oct 17 2007 More Richardson Oct 14 2007 Fnord site updates Oct 13 2007 This’ll get blogged everywhere Oct 12 2007 Blue sapphire Samurai Oct 12 2007 Better headphones for the iPhone Oct 12 2007 Dang cool Oct 12 2007 One more cool tile Oct 12 2007 Better iBook replacement batteries Oct 12 2007 More on Fuji, RAW/RAF files and HDR Oct 11 2007 More on the Omega X-33 Oct 11 2007 Sweet clock/weather station Oct 11 2007 Anna at four months Oct 11 2007 More anti-spam measures Oct 10 2007 Inexpensive photo/negative scanning service Oct 10 2007 Time to git ‘er done? Oct 10 2007 Aiiiiirwolf Oct 09 2007 Distributed systems news and publications Oct 09 2007 Anna in a hat Oct 06 2007 Crenshaw is back! Oct 04 2007 More cool networking gear Oct 04 2007 The physics of the longbow, and why Agincourt was a rout Oct 02 2007 A couple quick iPhone tips Sep 28 2007 Interesting tiles Sep 28 2007 More iPhone impressions after a couple weeks Sep 27 2007 Wisdom from Garrison Keillor Sep 27 2007 Lunch at Bacione Sep 26 2007 An amazing thing has happened Sep 26 2007 Famous in Ulaan Baator Sep 26 2007 The caffeine curve Sep 26 2007 San Diego commuting is hell Sep 24 2007 Scream away, you’ll live longer. Sep 24 2007 Anna in Target Sep 22 2007 More Anna pictures - latest album is up Sep 22 2007 New site stats package Sep 21 2007 Hockey Sep 19 2007 GPS for iPhone, a first approximation Sep 19 2007 Instant messenger apps for iPhone, a quick survey Sep 19 2007 Do you KNOW what time it is? Sep 18 2007 Nifty Unix tool for searching network traffic Sep 18 2007 A meta-list of job seeking pages Sep 18 2007 Free high-def TV over the internet Sep 18 2007 Interesting biz tips from Amazon Sep 18 2007 Cheap fizzy water Sep 18 2007 Almost as good as a flying car Sep 18 2007 A really good essay on programming Sep 18 2007 For once I want to live in Silicon Valley Sep 18 2007 No more NYT paywall! Sep 18 2007 Password storage on the iPhone Sep 18 2007 Once more into the breach, dear friends Sep 17 2007 And you thought that flying coach was tough Sep 17 2007 Marxism, inequality, or best-fit? Sep 16 2007 Bandwagons, timing and folly Sep 15 2007 The cat truck came back! Sep 15 2007 A killer list of recommended movies that ‘real men love’ Sep 15 2007 Misc items of interest around the web Sep 12 2007 Buy versus rent? Sep 12 2007 Some things are forever Sep 10 2007 Our truck gets stolen Sep 09 2007 Mirror images Sep 06 2007 One from the archives Sep 06 2007 A bit of attempted humor Sep 06 2007 I need more time. Sep 06 2007 Funded! Sep 04 2007 See how fast Paul walks! Aug 29 2007 Nike+ipod+Wordpress+plugin Aug 29 2007 Down again. Sort of. Aug 29 2007 Downtime today Aug 28 2007 This one for Christopher and John D Aug 28 2007 A bit of humor for y’all Aug 27 2007 At long last, the next Anna album Aug 26 2007 Fnord updates - downtime, themes Aug 25 2007 Yet More Evidence that we live in amazing times Aug 23 2007 Acrophobia post Aug 18 2007 Warning: puns and excessive cuteness Aug 18 2007 Super Important Stuff in This Posting Aug 18 2007 Yeah, yeah, I’m late with these… Aug 17 2007 New website to check out Aug 14 2007 The Decline and Fall of the Rovian Empire Aug 14 2007 Aphorisms for today Aug 14 2007 One for the bacontarians out there Aug 13 2007 Whoa. Aug 13 2007 Anna update - two months! Aug 13 2007 Zooooollll…. Aug 10 2007 Little things that make a big difference Aug 09 2007 As requested, a few Anna pics Aug 08 2007 A moment of silence, please Aug 08 2007 Clever software descriptions Aug 07 2007 Anticipation… Aug 06 2007 Good flight tracking site Aug 04 2007 Neat combination of functions Aug 02 2007 Silly but a lot of fun for thirty seconds Jul 31 2007 Submariner versus marinemaster Jul 31 2007 Harry Potter seven Jul 24 2007 Verdammt slimserver anyway Jul 24 2007 Walk a mile in *these* shoes. Jul 23 2007 The psychology of a commodity bubble Jul 23 2007 Modern military ruins…in SF Jul 23 2007 An aphorism or two for the day Jul 23 2007 More Anna pictures Jul 21 2007 Interesting paper… one cause of obesity found? Jul 19 2007 In lieu of actual content, another aphorism Jul 18 2007 Thought of the day. Jul 17 2007 Well, *I* thought it was funny Jul 16 2007 Aperture, HDR and more about the new camera Jul 09 2007 New camera - brief review (Finepix s6000fd) Jul 08 2007 Hmm, ghort is looking really Euro these days Jul 07 2007 At last, what you’ve all been asking for… Jul 07 2007 Sphinx moth Jul 05 2007 More Illinois flowers Jul 03 2007 Sunset at home Jul 03 2007 Another one for Diego Jul 03 2007 Spring in Illinois! Jul 02 2007 Anil starts a blog! Jul 01 2007 More home triviality Jul 01 2007 This is a little close to home Jun 30 2007 Better image sizes in Bins albums Jun 28 2007 More kid pictures up Jun 26 2007 Good essay on humor and religon Jun 21 2007 Paul, as furniture Jun 19 2007 Today’s cuteness Jun 19 2007 Awwww Jun 17 2007 This man is one of my heros. Jun 17 2007 A change of pace Jun 12 2007 Another Marinemaster review Jun 08 2007 The good and the bad of Hillcrest Jun 08 2007 More macro goodness Jun 07 2007 Macro shooting on the cheap Jun 06 2007 Nostalgia for the old pad Jun 06 2007 Eeenteresting Jun 06 2007 A keen music video Jun 06 2007 Things you don’t want to see on final approach… Jun 05 2007 Where I work Jun 05 2007 Cleanliness is far away from MRSA Jun 04 2007 Best VNC client for OSX? Jun 04 2007 VPN between OSX and Linksys RV042/048 May 31 2007 Buttercup?! May 27 2007 Cat-approved watches May 26 2007 Sorry boys, but this one is taken May 22 2007 Better remote desktop client software May 22 2007 And now for something rather different May 22 2007 This mouse is a killer! May 22 2007 One measure of success has arrived May 21 2007 Damn, this is hard to say but… May 16 2007 A much better tool for PDFs May 16 2007 Where am I? May 16 2007 Understand, and be sad. May 09 2007 OMFG, it’s finally the blackberry I want May 09 2007 An essay on RSS May 08 2007 Another Mac goodie May 06 2007 Roast your own? May 06 2007 Spring has sprung May 05 2007 Another PSP essential May 05 2007 Bach, anchovies and Mozart. May 05 2007 More notes and such on WatchReport… May 04 2007 I can sympathize May 04 2007 The Kursk comes home Apr 18 2007 Found an old picture in iphoto… Apr 18 2007 Ahh, finally! Hi-res PSP video encoding Apr 15 2007 No pictures on this post. Be glad. Apr 15 2007 Seafood in Milan Apr 15 2007 A new take on poetry Apr 11 2007 Wow. Apr 10 2007 Gelato in Arona Apr 03 2007 Musings on collection and addiction Apr 03 2007 Cool, random pictures. Or, where’s the prow of my ship? Mar 19 2007 iTerm and distraction-free computing Mar 16 2007 …and plagiarism too Mar 16 2007 Fame! Fortune! Seiko! Mar 14 2007 Twitter: A Web 2.0 way to kill time and attention Mar 13 2007 Paul takes a side gig Mar 13 2007 A quick test of the new automation Mar 04 2007 zsh, wordpress and automator Mar 04 2007 Decent MM pictures Mar 04 2007 Ahhh, Rolex stereotypes Mar 01 2007 Sugar, the opiate of our times Feb 25 2007 Interesting…site for better ebay posts Feb 25 2007 Group organization sites Feb 25 2007 The juxtaposition of old and new Feb 21 2007 Good toys Feb 21 2007 Updated San Diego housing data Feb 15 2007 A particularly good mashup Feb 08 2007 The Just-in-time watch project Feb 08 2007 Nokia N80 review and notes Feb 07 2007 Really funny food blog Feb 07 2007 Day hiking in Oakoasis Park Feb 05 2007 Free pedometer from Pfizer Jan 27 2007 Inside the Pearl, part two Jan 25 2007 What’s inside a Pearl? Jan 24 2007 Raw milk and immune system health Jan 21 2007 One cubic mile of oil per year Jan 21 2007 A grand day out Jan 21 2007 One less Microsoft Office annoyance Jan 15 2007 Fortis Flieger review and Christopher Ward comparison Jan 15 2007 Weak. Jan 10 2007 Sipura 3102, Asterisk and such Jan 07 2007 Antec Sonata II case, a brief review Jan 07 2007 New blog stats bit Jan 07 2007 How to remove spammers from wp_email_list Jan 07 2007 2006 Supercool engineering pictures Dec 30 2006 A great use of CD-ROMs and FPU-bugged Pentiums Dec 27 2006 The Seiko Marinemaster page Dec 26 2006 An interesting essay on modern masculinity Dec 24 2006 Random ‘blog craze Dec 24 2006 Watches, geeks, Rolex and free tuition. Dec 24 2006 T-mobile coverage information Dec 16 2006 Cell phote outages only help terrorists. Dec 16 2006 The fourteen signs of fascism Dec 15 2006 Uber-sexy laptop case Dec 15 2006 RSI, OSX and Time Out Dec 13 2006 Gogol Bordello and Primus Dec 10 2006 Save your ears, you may want them later Dec 07 2006 Glad we’re renting Dec 06 2006 Marinemaster…. Dec 05 2006 What makes a watch tick? Dec 05 2006 Mac page updated Dec 01 2006 Permian shrimp Dec 01 2006 Grass-fed beef Dec 01 2006 Wish I’d had this before Nov 28 2006 Another watch project Nov 28 2006 RAID5 initial benchmarks Nov 28 2006 Comfort food and gender Nov 28 2006 Local water pollution, globalization and health in general. Nov 28 2006 Some holiday shopping tips Nov 26 2006 For my international-romance friends Nov 23 2006 Lower AT&T bills for Illinois Nov 22 2006 Point Loma, San Diego, Dec 2005 Nov 18 2006 Where to get Haribo Salino salt licorice Nov 15 2006 Hardware and software RAID5 under linux Nov 11 2006 Another good source/search engine Nov 11 2006 Useful scheduling service Nov 11 2006 Plastic mechanical watches Nov 11 2006 Bond, and watches. Marvelous. Nov 11 2006 Nice quotation Nov 09 2006 I miss flying Nov 08 2006 Fabulous AIP article on vehicle safety and physics Nov 07 2006 Ahh, gotta love that spam Nov 07 2006 Good place to get cheap watch straps Nov 06 2006 It’s a small, interdependant world Nov 06 2006 The architecture of oil platforms Nov 06 2006 Cheap robot hand! Nov 06 2006 Cold drip coffee maker? Nov 06 2006 Teh 3vil! Nov 03 2006 Nice article on ECC Oct 27 2006 Need a vacation? Oct 25 2006 Damn, this is cool Oct 25 2006 The flava of the day Oct 25 2006 Nice quote Oct 23 2006 Tea harvest picture on Flickr Oct 19 2006 Purty Oct 17 2006 Future warning signs Oct 16 2006 Travel tips from physisists Oct 15 2006 Another good essay Oct 15 2006 Damned good essay on Starbucks Oct 15 2006 Ahh, Morford on culture and technology Oct 04 2006 An interesting travel idea: container freighters Oct 01 2006 Aviator update Sep 25 2006 My old lab is still there! Sep 25 2006 In the series of old embarassing pictures Sep 24 2006 New Blackberry resource available Sep 23 2006 Why Christopher Ward and not Seiko Sep 18 2006 Malvern Aviator quick review Sep 18 2006 How to roll your own (watch, that is) Sep 16 2006 Almost forgot… the Aeropress! Sep 12 2006 Nice NY Times article on espresso Sep 12 2006 Almost here! Sep 12 2006 New Blackberry is finally out Sep 12 2006 Gapless playback! Sep 12 2006 Neat Apple trick Sep 10 2006 Why Slayer is brain programming Sep 08 2006 Sudoko for blackberry, free and done well. Sep 07 2006 Music, the opiod of choice Sep 05 2006 mdadm magic Sep 02 2006 Aviator, ETA 2824-2, Elabore grade, as cased by Christopher Ward Sep 02 2006 A nice visual explanation of the economics of the last few years Sep 02 2006 Signs of the apocalypse, as seen in vegetables. Aug 31 2006 Even More Nostalgia, with a crashed Beechcraft Aug 31 2006 More nostalgia Aug 31 2006 Another X-33 alternative Aug 30 2006 We now have an Official Seal Aug 30 2006 Nifty game to check out Aug 29 2006 77 reasons to live in San Diego, and 110 not to live inland Aug 26 2006 Trusted reviewers Aug 25 2006 Nostalgia Aug 24 2006 Left-handers rule the world, but I make more ‘cause I’m smarter. Aug 23 2006 Warning: Rolex does not prevent infidelity! Aug 22 2006 Farecasting, a dark and dangerous divination Aug 22 2006 Bacon of the Month Club Aug 21 2006 Jet trains! (and watches. Obliquely.) Aug 19 2006 Build a cat tree on the cheep Aug 19 2006 Today’s (and yesterdays’) train-and-watch postings Aug 18 2006 Homonyms and classic insults Aug 17 2006 Cheap NAS - 250GB for $200 with gig-e Aug 17 2006 Another one for Diego Aug 17 2006 Coffee, once again the choice of champions. Aug 16 2006 mdadm and linux software raid Aug 16 2006 Railroad trains versus black bears and mudslides…. aaaand watches. Aug 14 2006 Really, really, really supercool music videos. Aug 14 2006 Massive list of Mac keyboard shortcuts Aug 13 2006 Christian Madrassas Aug 11 2006 5150 Aug 11 2006 EVDO expresscard/34 Aug 10 2006 Do you have gophers? Aug 10 2006 Canned coffee. Aug 08 2006 I want my damned flying car! Aug 08 2006 Joel on command and control management Aug 08 2006 More reasons not to be a scientist Aug 07 2006 It *almost* works Aug 07 2006 Updated the Mac page today Aug 07 2006 Damn, this is funny Aug 05 2006 Ethical traval Aug 05 2006 Car shopping information Aug 05 2006 Red sari Aug 03 2006 Guess what this is? Aug 03 2006 10 reasons people quit their jobs Aug 03 2006 Foreach syntax for zsh Aug 02 2006 A moment of silence, please. Aug 01 2006 What does ‘Fnord’ mean, anyway? Aug 01 2006 This one is for Christopher Jul 30 2006 Amazing feature on oil Jul 30 2006 Xezo Legionnaire Jul 28 2006 Neat-o Jul 28 2006 Now this is a great story Jul 26 2006 Best post about UML I’ve yet seen Jul 26 2006 Underground Japan Jul 26 2006 Doxygen for Xcode Jul 25 2006 Google local for mobile now has traffic info! Jul 25 2006 Bookmark this one Jul 23 2006 Good CD Jul 23 2006 Discovering John Emsley and the elements Jul 23 2006 Extremely hip t-shirts Jul 21 2006 Some science is nicer than others Jul 20 2006 Maybe-useful photo sofware from Adobe Jul 19 2006 Geek lust strikes Jul 19 2006 Speaking of altimiters Jul 19 2006 Did you know that Jul 18 2006 Yes, I need help. Jul 16 2006 Want one? Jul 10 2006 Oxyd rides again! Jul 08 2006 Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands Jul 08 2006 Synergy, PSP, video encoding and Xgrid Jul 08 2006 iTunes frustrations, part N Jul 08 2006 It’s a small world Jul 08 2006 Get yer free ‘desktop watch’ here Jul 08 2006 ETA movement grades Jul 08 2006 This is why I don’t want a Rolex. Jul 02 2006 A new era for mechanical watches Jun 22 2006 Marx and religon Jun 21 2006 Why we don’t own a house in San Diego Jun 11 2006 GMP 4.2.1 on Solaris 10/sparcv9, 64-bit Jun 09 2006 Marine deck chronometers Jun 08 2006 Why I love Camino Jun 03 2006 Just a quick preview Jun 02 2006 A simple yet useful idea May 29 2006 Ajax watch browsing May 28 2006 A cool quote from the Hagakure May 26 2006 The international sign for marriage May 26 2006 Meetings, productivity and Douglas Coupland May 24 2006 More anti-spam measures added May 19 2006 Blue nation May 19 2006 Java gets its factory on May 18 2006 Sun gets generous May 16 2006 Orient analog-digital review May 16 2006 Omega and analog-digital May 16 2006 Fourteen thousand one hundred and eight May 13 2006 A most amusing rant on vegetarians May 13 2006 Pollen counts May 13 2006 UCSD map formatted for PDAs May 11 2006 How to resize a watch bracelet May 10 2006 Who knew that a font was a scourge? May 06 2006 More tools for fast coding on Blackberry May 06 2006 A new guilty pleasure for the iPod May 06 2006 Google Talk for blackberry is out May 04 2006 National day of Slayer Apr 30 2006 A couple of new Blackberry programs I’m testing Apr 30 2006 Marriage, schmarriage Apr 21 2006 Another free game for blackberry Apr 21 2006 8700 is out on T-Mobile Apr 21 2006 Sexy pictures and lacy underwear take men’s minds off getting a good deal. Apr 19 2006 Choice. Apr 13 2006 Argentina on two steaks a day Apr 13 2006 Polarizers, car windows and mysterious checkerboard patterns Apr 12 2006 Cool toys, these Apr 12 2006 Chris joins the party Apr 11 2006 MacBookPro gets more appealing yet Apr 08 2006 Seven thousand dollar ultralight Apr 08 2006 Free WiFi directory site Apr 08 2006 Tall people make more money Apr 08 2006 Seriously funky Casio Mar 31 2006 Engine-turned machined parts Mar 27 2006 Mixing and matching from different Debian releases Mar 26 2006 Interesting new blackberry program for the 7520 Mar 23 2006 Audio, iPod, AAC and MP3. Hey, that rhymes. Mar 17 2006 And now, for a breath of optimism and thoughtfulness Mar 17 2006 All about Oxo Mar 16 2006 Another thing I want but don’t need Mar 13 2006 While I agree that Ajax is cool and all… Mar 13 2006 Blackberry, SyncML, and such Mar 11 2006 Developing code for the blackberry Mar 10 2006 See our washing machine get made Mar 05 2006 iPod video links Mar 02 2006 Learning about the elements Mar 01 2006 Social bookmarking tools for Mac Feb 27 2006 Jumpcut, another mac essential Feb 27 2006 Invicta 8926, $65, today only on Woot Feb 27 2006 The Great Move West, in pictures Feb 27 2006 Low end theory: 45 cent watches Feb 24 2006 Sell your old blackberry Feb 22 2006 On a personal note Feb 22 2006 New CA and service certificates Feb 16 2006 Review of the Alpha GMT Feb 11 2006 Feeds now actually working. Feb 11 2006 Problems with RSS and Atom feeds Feb 11 2006 A massive list of travel tips Feb 08 2006 WordPress 2.0.1 now in place Feb 05 2006 80% of the real thing is a lot cheaper Feb 05 2006 Mono/C-# on Macintosh Feb 01 2006 More squeezebox hacking Jan 26 2006 Cool Mac trick Jan 25 2006 DopeWars on Crackberry! Jan 25 2006 The dulcet tones of data storage Jan 24 2006 NFS and OSX (Tiger) automounts Jan 22 2006 Hi, my name is Paul and I’m a Rooster addict Jan 20 2006 Remote-unlock of Blackberries Jan 16 2006 I’ve lived too long anyway Jan 15 2006 Finally, free aviation charts Jan 15 2006 Apache server-side includes on Debian Jan 15 2006 Syslog net-wide, finally Jan 15 2006 WMV files in quicktime, finally Jan 11 2006 Hitachi WiFi VoIP up and running! Jan 06 2006 2005 Paul tries pocketwatches Dec 23 2005 Putin wears Philippe, Bush wears timex Dec 21 2005 The Value of Time Dec 16 2005 Client mode on Linksys WRT54GS Dec 11 2005 Free google local client. Dec 08 2005 What is it with men and their watches? Dec 06 2005 Watches for flying Dec 03 2005 Breitling and analog-digital Dec 03 2005 Added Google analytics to the site Dec 03 2005 Blackberry categories blow chunks. Nov 30 2005 Apple broadband tuner Nov 30 2005 A complete catalog of all the Seiko divers Nov 29 2005 How a watch works - film from Hamilton in 1949 Nov 27 2005 Test post for email notification Nov 26 2005 I really want a silent PC so I can run OpenBSD and pf again Nov 25 2005 SRV records for Asterisk Nov 25 2005 Email subscriptions now possible. Nov 23 2005 Opera Mini update Nov 15 2005 Nice two-page list of OSS mac software Nov 15 2005 Excellent - new Opera Mini for blackberry Nov 15 2005 More on the SpringDrive movement Nov 09 2005 We know that the most dangerous human trait is an absence of self-doubt, and that self-doubt is more likely to be absent from the mind of the believer than the infidel. Nov 09 2005 A really cool quote. Nov 09 2005 Aquamacs! Nov 08 2005 When your telephone knows you’re there Nov 08 2005 Atomic, solar, analog and classy Nov 06 2005 Supercheap skeletonized automatic watches. Nov 06 2005 Thermocompensated quartz movements Nov 02 2005 Another Marinemaster 600 review Oct 30 2005 More on watch madness - the Seiko SBDB001 Oct 28 2005 Retrocomputing and mechanical watches Oct 28 2005 CaffeineFinder updated to 1.0.3 Oct 28 2005 A new affectation strikes our hero. Oct 11 2005 Moved to sunny California. Trite, eh? Oct 11 2005 Gigabit ethernet - what you need Jun 13 2005 Macintosh stuff - notes and recommendations Jun 13 2005 WordPress creation Jun 13 2005
We know that the most dangerous human trait is an absence of self-doubt, and that self-doubt is more likely to be absent from the mind of the believer than the infidel. Nov 09 2005