Category: Personal

• Unearthing Hi8 Time Capsules - The Geek Bridge Between Two Worlds (25 Jul 2025)
• SailfishOS, Jolla C2, and random ramblings in 2024 (19 Nov 2024)
• Gaming on the Go - What the Sega Nomad Taught Me About EVs (16 Oct 2024)
• Replacing the Model 3 with a Model X (27 Sep 2024)
• Zweig’s Echoes in Wein (13 Sep 2024)
• Streamlining Tech for Travel - My Shift to Minimalism (08 Sep 2024)
• Travelling with less stuff (07 Sep 2024)
• Redefining My Reading - Embracing the Modern Age of Media Consumption (24 Aug 2024)
• How to Hack Your Treadmill and Run Like a Geek (Or at Least Avoid a Boring Workout) (31 Jul 2024)
• 2 Years on towing with the Lightning (12 Jul 2024)
• Happy Mother's Day - Here is a Tesla (10 Jun 2024)
• Bytes to Bylines - My Unwritten Journey from Tech to Text (19 Dec 2023)
• From Chunky Palmtops to Pocket-Sized Powerhouses (13 Dec 2023)
• Measure Twice, Cut Once Trades Scholarship (23 Nov 2023)
• Beyond Will and Worry - Finding Schopenhauer in a Child's Smile (31 Oct 2023)
• Slingbox, Cordcutting, and where we are today (29 Sep 2023)
• ChatGPT and the Electric Bill Whisperer - How to Upload Your Bills and Watch Tariff Magic Happen (21 Sep 2023)
• The Quest for Efficiency - Unveiling Hidden Energy Secrets with a Dash of IR (20 Sep 2023)
• Using AI to Speak Portuguese and French - A Lesson in Online Skepticism (18 Sep 2023)
• Comparing the US to EU on Grid Security (07 Aug 2023)
• Grid Security...It is complicated (01 Aug 2023)
• Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (27 Jul 2023)
• Electrifying Tractors (25 Jul 2023)
• Pixel 7a Review (15 Jul 2023)
• AirGradient Sensor Review (04 Jul 2023)
• Reducing Operational Constraints and Emissions by Increasing Flexible Energy Capacity (01 Jul 2023)
• CTO at Blueprint Power Talks Sustainable Solutions for Reducing Airport Emissions (03 Feb 2023)
• Best of 2022 List (24 Dec 2022)
• Dunkelflaute (14 Dec 2022)
• My 2022 of Travel (12 Dec 2022)
• Trip to Frankfort with the Lightning (18 Jun 2022)
• F-150 Lightning towing stats (30 May 2022)
• BlueCruise, Charging, and Trip Stats (28 May 2022)
• Prep for our first road trip in the F-150 Lightning (27 May 2022)
• Steam Deck Review (18 May 2022)
• Prague Spring (18 Feb 2022)
• It is all energy (03 Dec 2021)
• Frogger and Young Nick (18 Aug 2021)
• The disappearing digital divide? (29 Jul 2021)
• Haiku OS on a Lenovo T480 (26 Jul 2021)
• Open Source On the Go (11 May 2021)
• Not everything new is sucky (21 Apr 2021)
• Fleet EV Charging in NYC (19 Apr 2021)
• Thoughts on Rural Energy Transition (15 Apr 2021)
• Migrating a ZFS Pool with Snapshots (15 Dec 2020)
• Unifi Security Gateway Dual WAN Policy Routing (15 Apr 2020)
• Kinderlevel Deutsch - Keeping Current (10 Mar 2019)
• Where I Get My News (12 Jun 2018)
• Istanbul (10 Jun 2018)
• Surface Book, Windows 10, and WSL: A year in review from a UNIX Geek (05 Nov 2017)
• Ring Doorbell Security (24 Jul 2016)
• Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro Review (21 Feb 2016)
• You are dev to me (11 Oct 2015)
• Liquorice Stick and Memories (21 Mar 2015)
• Withings Home Camera Review (08 Feb 2015)
• Smitten with the Mitten – 6 Months in Michigan (18 Dec 2014)
• What do I want to do when I grow up? (07 Oct 2014)
• Spiffy Schmidts one year on… (14 Aug 2014)
• Leaving Abu Dhabi (06 Jul 2014)
• Celebrate Geekiness Day (02 Jul 2014)
• Top 11 Pet Peeves of Hotels (11 Apr 2014)
• Best things and stuff from 2013 (06 Jan 2014)
• Thinkpad x230 Thoughts (31 Dec 2013)
• 2013 Investment Recap (15 Dec 2013)
• The Great Illusion (06 Dec 2013)
• Travel Tips from a Frequent Traveler (08 Jun 2013)
• Microsoft Lync on Linux (18 May 2013)
• Race to the median travel screen… (12 Aug 2012)
• Dreamhost was hacked (12 Mar 2012)
• iOS Apps for Business Owners and Travelers (15 Jan 2012)
• Best things and stuff from 2011 (31 Dec 2011)
• Apple Thunderbolt Display Review (28 Dec 2011)
• Travel Gear for the Globe Trotting Geeks (18 Sep 2011)
• TL; DR – I am starting a company. (06 Jul 2011)
• Don’t Mess with Momma Bear (30 Jun 2011)
• Need no more – Gifts and Holidays (17 Apr 2011)
• Color App and the future of GPS Spoofing (26 Mar 2011)
• Advice for new ISSO or ISSM (26 Jan 2011)
• BitlBee and OTR … then add some TOR! (02 Jan 2011)
• Geeks, Charity, and the impact of Reddit (25 Dec 2010)
• Field Marshal Nick (11 Dec 2010)
• The start of something magical (05 Dec 2010)
• No Shave November – Aftermath Report (03 Dec 2010)
• Left Boeing (02 Dec 2010)
• How NOT to Dispose of a LoveSac (27 Nov 2010)
• Updated Stable (13 Nov 2010)
• 5 Years Since Katrina (30 Aug 2010)
• “Netcraft confirms PGP Email Encryption is Dead!” (28 Aug 2010)
• Happy 17th Birthday Debian! (16 Aug 2010)
• Teaching takes patience (07 Jul 2010)
• Software Project Mgmt Reading and Blogs… (26 May 2010)
• Ubuntu 10.04 on Sony Vaio P (25 May 2010)
• Left Facebook and “Why you should too” (16 May 2010)
• OpenVPN Install Ubuntu 9.10 (27 Feb 2010)
• N900 Banshee Fix (24 Feb 2010)
• Tomboy SSH Fix on Ubuntu 10.1 Lucid (23 Feb 2010)
• Test from n900 (23 Feb 2010)
• Google Reader Share for Monday (22 Feb 2010)
• Running Comic (22 Feb 2010)
• Tourist in my Life (20 Feb 2010)
• Nokia N900 Demo Unit (19 Feb 2010)
• Top Romantic Songs (13 Feb 2010)
• Bearded Nick (04 Jan 2010)
• Decade in Review (31 Dec 2009)
• The quest for a Media Center Machine (24 Nov 2009)
• What Linux/UNIX do you use? (23 Nov 2009)
• Clearwire Review – Richmond Metro (22 Nov 2009)
• Show Desktop (19 Nov 2009)
• Mandriva Linux 2010 is a hot mess (05 Nov 2009)
• I failed Algebra three times… (03 Nov 2009)
• VMware Fusion 3.0 Quick Review (27 Oct 2009)
• Flickr (17 Oct 2009)
• Stephen at work (17 Oct 2009)
• 9.10 UNR mini-review (31 Aug 2009)
• Defining Security (29 Aug 2009)
• PGP for Mac Whole Disk Encryption Review (28 Aug 2009)
• Systems Engineering and Redundancy (14 Aug 2009)
• Open Source Security Professionals (13 Jul 2009)
• Weekend Update (11 Jul 2009)
• Legacy in the IT/IA Community (22 May 2009)
• The Family at Work (17 May 2009)
• Lexmark Drivers for Ubuntu/Debian (05 May 2009)
• Error in Service Module (17 Apr 2009)
• Here is a quarter (16 Apr 2009)
• Conky Setup (29 Mar 2009)
• Long Time (18 Mar 2009)
• Jig (10 Jan 2009)
• Fix for Songbird showing songs still on iPod (03 Jan 2009)
• Travel Days for 2008 (31 Dec 2008)
• Securing MySQL (31 Dec 2008)
• Fix for Songbird and iPod (28 Dec 2008)
• Keeping on my Toes – Mac to Linux and back (27 Dec 2008)
• Similarities between Santa and System Administrators (25 Dec 2008)
• FIPS 140-2 Open Source SSL/IPSEC – Thanks Red Hat! (22 Dec 2008)
• Machiavellian Leadership (28 Nov 2008)
• I use a microscope to read maps… (25 Nov 2008)
• Passion (14 Nov 2008)
• Funniest read today… (10 Nov 2008)
• South of Mason Dixon and North of Farmers Market (09 Nov 2008)
• Parking (08 Nov 2008)
• Kicking it old school (04 Nov 2008)
• I have one hand in my pocket (27 Oct 2008)
• Leaving for the city (26 Oct 2008)
• I hate Windows (26 Oct 2008)
• Dress Code (16 Oct 2008)
• So true (22 Sep 2008)
• Schmidts Around the World!!!! (11 Sep 2008)
• Bittersweet Day (11 Sep 2008)
• Fallacy of Distance (30 Aug 2008)
• Smart People (23 Aug 2008)
• Memoirs are Dead (16 Aug 2008)
• Government Planning Perfection (16 Aug 2008)
• Drobo for me (01 Aug 2008)
• The iPhone saga continues (27 Jul 2008)
• Most beautiful approach on the East Coast (23 Jul 2008)
• 6am to DC (23 Jul 2008)
• Trying out WordPress on iPhone (22 Jul 2008)
• Storm Racing (13 Jul 2008)
• History Books (05 Jul 2008)
• Reason and Imagination (02 Jul 2008)
• Bought a Kindle (24 Jun 2008)
• Beagle Travelers (24 Jun 2008)
• Joy of Flushing (23 Jun 2008)
• Muster (21 Jun 2008)
• Geek and Backup Pride (21 Jun 2008)
• The air I breathe (31 May 2008)
• Personality Test (26 May 2008)
• The Scientist and the Eye Ball (13 Apr 2008)
• The History Channel of Today (12 Apr 2008)
• I want a pony and a nintendo… (12 Feb 2008)
• Reason I don’t eat out… (11 Feb 2008)
• Workout and Food Log (08 Feb 2008)
• Hey Ya (22 Jan 2008)
• Brrrr (22 Jan 2008)
• Twitter Updates for 2008-01-21 (21 Jan 2008)
• Moment in Time (21 Jan 2008)
• Twitter Updates for 2008-01-19 (19 Jan 2008)
• Food Time! (18 Jan 2008)
• I diet geeky style (07 Jan 2008)
• Speechless (02 Jan 2008)
• What Geek am I? (01 Jan 2008)
• Best Man Toast (29 Dec 2007)
• Dead Poetic – Vices Lyrics (25 Dec 2007)
• Absolution (22 Dec 2007)
• WOOT! Arm in sweater (22 Dec 2007)
• What I need Recap 2 (21 Dec 2007)
• Living Room (20 Dec 2007)
• Water (20 Dec 2007)
• I fought the road and the road won (19 Dec 2007)
• Short vs Long (15 Dec 2007)
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• Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi (04 Dec 2007)
• Working from home because no o… (12 Nov 2007)
• Working from home because no o… (12 Nov 2007)
• Linux and Skype – NOW WITH VIDEO! (08 Nov 2007)
• New Exhaust RC51 (07 Nov 2007)
• up late designing networks! (06 Nov 2007)
• For all the apple haters: http… (02 Nov 2007)
• NNTP will forever rock my sock… (01 Nov 2007)
• tinc maybe my opensource repla… (01 Nov 2007)
• Project Indiana (Ian’s OpenSol… (01 Nov 2007)
• upgrade to 10.5 on mac…sweet… (30 Oct 2007)
• Back from Stone Mountain, grea… (28 Oct 2007)
• This is me…sitting in an air… (20 Oct 2007)
• OpenSuSE 10.3 is great so far…. (22 Sep 2007)
• House Inspection Link (14 Sep 2007)
• i am typing this from BeOS+BON… (13 Sep 2007)
• Ericca and I are off to tucson… (13 Sep 2007)
• Dorky Nerd God (08 Sep 2007)
• 6.5.22 Overlays on SGI suck. I… (07 Sep 2007)
• iPhone + Mini Cooper = Super Hotness (06 Sep 2007)
• I sure do wish some ppl would … (30 Aug 2007)
• I want a Mac SE/30 BAD, playin… (26 Aug 2007)
• I want a SE/30…80 bucks I wa… (25 Aug 2007)
• I really like Sauce. Good plac… (25 Aug 2007)
• Oh how the times have changed… (24 Aug 2007)
• In spite of divisions among Ch… (22 Aug 2007)
• Pope Quote… (22 Aug 2007)
• My First Embedded Google Map (21 Aug 2007)
• after a few day delay, I am of… (19 Aug 2007)
• Military Men — WHOORAH! (19 Aug 2007)
• Dang you Apple! Why must you p… (05 Aug 2007)
• I love days when you can do no… (05 Aug 2007)
• Home sweet home (02 Aug 2007)
• 2 hour delay, sometimes I wond… (02 Aug 2007)
• The glass is neither half-full… (31 Jul 2007)
• sheesh the storms in Tucson ar… (31 Jul 2007)
• Seedless Grapes (27 Jul 2007)
• Misguided revolts (26 Jul 2007)
• Another day, off to the DMV to… (24 Jul 2007)
• Jr. High Review (20 Jul 2007)
• My Parents are coming up this … (19 Jul 2007)
• GOING HOME!! Flight is 40 minu… (16 Jul 2007)
• T-Minus One day till take-off … (15 Jul 2007)
• Why are cats with subtitles so… (10 Jul 2007)
• sitting in a meeting…getting… (09 Jul 2007)
• I am loving verizon card (07 Jul 2007)
• 40 hours of work in 2 days. Ye… (28 Jun 2007)
• The story of my life… (25 Jun 2007)
• I am close to be done with the… (23 Jun 2007)
• filter = [ “a/sda[1-9]$/” “a/e… (18 Jun 2007)
• Wow I am sitting at my desk in… (18 Jun 2007)
• I am typing this from the new … (16 Jun 2007)
• I think everyone forgets somet… (11 Jun 2007)
• Wow iPhone SDK, didn’t see tha… (11 Jun 2007)
• Please oh please let there be … (11 Jun 2007)
• I love WWDC, it is an exciting… (11 Jun 2007)
• What is the most days someone … (03 Jun 2007)
• Pictures to follow (27 May 2007)
• Having fun @ the Mona Boat Doc… (27 May 2007)
• Still stuck in Houston…shees… (19 May 2007)
• Airports and Standby (19 May 2007)
• Last day in the desert, day 39… (18 May 2007)
• Testing Google Picasa Slideshow (17 May 2007)
• Etsy.com is a great site! I lo… (15 May 2007)
• Cold in the desert today (15 May 2007)
• i really hate Tucson, i cannot… (13 May 2007)
• The desert is really hot. Go f… (11 May 2007)
• Heading out to Tucson, early f… (10 May 2007)
• Verizon evdo card + linux = ss… (09 May 2007)
• The stars in Arab are amazing!… (09 May 2007)
• Thanks Continental! My red eye… (02 May 2007)
• I visited Sassabe today, one o… (24 Apr 2007)
• My drivers license came in fin… (23 Apr 2007)
• Tucson is windy and stinky (23 Apr 2007)
• Travel again! I will be in Tuc… (22 Apr 2007)
• Woohoo I just landed in Huntsv… (20 Apr 2007)
• Finally on the plane and ready… (20 Apr 2007)
• Tucson airport is SO SLOW to g… (20 Apr 2007)
• 16 hour day of work yesterday…. (19 Apr 2007)
• The Indian Reservation @ A’yo … (17 Apr 2007)
• Tucson Graveyard (16 Apr 2007)
• I am in a Mexican market in Tu… (15 Apr 2007)
• Working on Sunday…fun fun in… (15 Apr 2007)
• Tucson is amazing @ 70 degrees… (13 Apr 2007)
• New motorcycle – Honda RC51 (19 Mar 2007)
• I dislike Delta Airlines (10 Mar 2007)
• I am the computer man! (03 Mar 2007)
• Crazy Mac Mini People (21 Jan 2007)
• Testing out Journler (07 Jan 2007)
• ARRR!! I am a software pirate (05 Nov 2006)
• I am getting an iMac… (01 Nov 2006)
• Bye Bye Treo… (11 Oct 2006)
• Ich speak Deutsch und English (29 Sep 2006)
• Binary for Dad (26 Sep 2006)
• My UNIX Adventure Timeline (21 Sep 2006)
• Rocks Cluster (19 Sep 2006)
• Electricity makes me giggle (10 Sep 2006)
• DoD Security? Is that like pretty ugly? (04 Aug 2006)
• Bought a Mini Cooper (01 Aug 2006)
• DS Lite Loving (19 Jul 2006)
• Chuck Norris Facts – My Favorites (14 Jul 2006)
• Cheap Geek (10 Jul 2006)
• Ruby vs Python (10 Jul 2006)
• Futurama Renewed for 13 New Episodes (22 Jun 2006)
• GUI Babies (19 Jun 2006)
• Geek Code (19 Jun 2006)
• Asus M5n ACPI Fan (13 Jun 2006)
• Sansa e260 and Linux (09 Jun 2006)