Archive

2020

May 12	Thieves and Pirates
April 14	Unauthorized Remote Nest Camera Access
April 13	A New Greatest Generation?
March 26	New Site, No Trackers
January 29	Impeachment Drama and Divisiveness

2019

December 19	Time To Do The Hard Thing
December 16	iPad or MacBook Pro
November 24	Starlink Is An Ocean Of Gold
November 21	The Danger Of Traveling Light
November 14	Crushing a Patent Troll
November 13	Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Ruled Unconstitutional
November 13	That Part Which Laws or Kings Can Cause or Cure
November 6	UPS Delivers Prescription Medications By Drone
November 3	Amazon Turns Off Its Final Oracle Database
October 30	Twitter Bans Political Advertising
October 22	How To Maintain Control Of Your Company
October 22	WeWork is Done
October 12	WeWork Close To Insolvent
October 12	The Two Hour Marathon
October 11	Red Meat Is Not Unhealthy
October 3	Some of Yesterday's News Today
September 23	Project Possible: Summit All Fourteen 8,000m Peaks in Seven Months
September 18	Fighting the Dragon
September 15	My Flag Pin
September 9	The Rainbow Logo
September 7	Antidepressants
September 7	Thoughtful, Courteous Debate on Challenging Issues
August 24	The Risks of Doing Business in China
August 21	American Patients and Surgeons in Cancun
August 16	The We Company Is A Dumpster Fire
August 16	Wesley Pruden Will Be Missed
August 9	Government Run Healthcare Is Not A Good Idea
August 9	Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings?
August 9	The Science is Never Settled
August 2	Sunscreen Might Kill You
August 2	How Banksy Authenticates His Work
May 14	RCS Chat Is A Mess
April 27	Reasonable Expectation of Electronic Privacy
April 26	We Don't Know How to Build Safe Software
April 12	First Pictures of a Black Hole
March 29	AirPower's Problem Was Not Physics
March 16	Two Solo, Unaided Antarctica Crossings
February 28	André Previn
February 1	Facebook vs Apple
January 13	The 1959 Project

2018

December 25	Zuckerberg Lie Files
December 25	Interview with Donald Knuth
December 25	Mass Expiration of Copyright
December 18	That's My Boy, Lin
November 22	Ion Drive Airplane
November 12	Saturation Divers
November 11	Getting the iPad to Pro
October 21	Voices of Reason and Unreason
July 1	The Soccer Ball That Went to Space, Twice
May 19	Everyone Is Selling Data
May 9	Self Checkout Doesn't Have To Be Horrible
April 3	The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
March 28	Facebook's Surveillance Machine
March 23	John Bolton Is A Terrible Fit For His New Job
March 23	Drivel from Windbags
March 23	I Deleted My Facebook Account
March 2	Apple is Not Getting In To Healthcare

2017

December 21	It's a Trap
October 28	It’s Always the Media’s Fault
October 27	The Birth of a New Nation
September 16	Misguided Priorities
July 18	Did Trump Jr. Break the Law?
June 14	The Paris Climate Accord and Impeachment
June 12	Presidential Obstruction of Justice
June 11	The Spine and Sinew of the Nation
June 10	Amazon and Netflix vs Movie Studios
May 18	JSON Feed
April 10	Game, set, match, McConnell
February 27	Who Is A Sportswoman
February 24	Eric Holder won't change anything at Uber
February 15	The beginning of the end of Obamacare

2016

December 27	Vera Rubin and Dark Matter
December 22	Predatory Drug Pricing, Courtesy of Congress
November 9	Winners, losers, and observations
November 5	Smartphone Winners
November 4	Scandal Poker
November 4	Politics is Pro Wrestling
October 29	TouchBar and the T1
May 26	Best idea from the VA in a long time
February 18	Alexander Hamilton vs Donald Trump

2015

November 1	On settled science
October 30	The Syrian War is now in full swing
October 12	A Harmless Cipher
October 2	Mobile apps are (probably) bigger than Hollywood
October 2	Ambiguous Grammar
October 2	Promises, Promises
June 21	To Taylor re Apple
June 1	More Efficient Than Breathing
April 23	Amazon Web Services is a great business
April 6	Sending a clear message

2014

December 29	Great speech recognition is almost here...again
December 11	When is torture OK?
December 2	The Grid Charge
May 30	Amazon v. Hachette
March 3	The Steel in Barack Obama's Spine
March 1	There Will Be Costs
February 18	California Ballot Measure to Raise Healthcare Costs
February 1	Wisconsin's finances, 3 years later
February 1	The Death of Obama's "Noble Lie"
January 27	What's killing our kids?
January 23	Not a Single Instance
January 14	A temporary flash of sanity

2013

December 1	We Three Kings
June 12	A Letter To My Congressman

2012

December 23	Check your tax rate
December 17	Google donates millions of core hours to science
December 17	Landfill Harmonic
December 10	The Real Thing
December 10	X132 Hellcat Combat
December 7	The 7 year walk of 22,000 miles
December 6	Random Shopper
November 27	Microsoft has failed
November 27	Now is a great time to build software
November 25	Amazing Time Lapse Video of Kuala Lumpur
November 24	They Cracked This 250-year-old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside
November 15	Making Cents
November 12	Touch sensitive plastic skin heals itself

2011

September 15	Exploring public datasets
August 25	Give a little credit
August 24	What does it take to hack AES?
August 18	jactiveresource 0.4 released
April 20	Speedclimbing the Eiger
April 19	Finding the Outliers
March 6	Smart Phone Marketshare
March 6	Weak Tea Indeed
February 11	William Playfair Would Be Disappointed

2009

April 20

Adobe AIR on amd64 or ia64 Ubuntu/Kubuntu

2008

December 18	Merry Christmas
November 28	Zenoss Plugins now support OpenBSD
November 28	Installing Bespin on Kubuntu 8.10
May 12	The Best Keyboard Ever
May 5	jactiveresource launched
May 5	The Rockfish
April 3	The perfect template engine

2007

October 24	Base Jumping Into a Cave
October 21	Installing Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on an ThinkPad X61 Tablet
October 20	DHCP Failover on OpenBSD
October 16	Running xntpd on my OpenBSD firewall cluster
October 12	OpenBSD Firewall Cluster
September 29	Uptime
January 22	Pre Google Maps Maps

2006

December 21	Locales in Ubuntu/Debian for Universe
November 10	Pandemonium in Piscataway
November 8	Tomcat, Apache mod_jk and mod_rewrite
October 2	Long Live the 486