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2013
May
17
With a Whole Lifetime in Mind
“I live one day at a time but with a lifetime in mind.”
11
Living as Though Today is Your Last Day
“When you truly live as though today is your last day on Earth, you wake ...”
10
Walk Slow
“Walk slow. Walk like you have nowhere to go.”
09
Enlighten Yourself
“If you feel that your perspective on reality is skewed, if you feel unsure about ...”
02
Get To The Point
“In whatever you're trying to say or trying to do, stop trying and get to the ...”
Apr
20
The Internet and Self-Reliance
“In terms of self-reliance, the Internet is arguably the most important invention since the knife ...”
19
Ask The Unpopular But Necessary Questions
“When the masses have their attention focused in one direction, true leaders look in the ...”
17
Visual Diversity
“Sometimes the natural colors on this planet simply astound me. Nowhere else in our solar ...”
16
An Explosion of Gratitude
“I was standing by the open window with a mug of freshly brewed Pu-erh tea ...”
15
We Influence Our Reality
“One day when I was eight, and my dad was thirty-seven, I realized that I ...”
Expect the Unexpected
“How did I get here? I don't know. It's hard to say. Sometimes my life ...”
05
Where We Exist
“To ignore the phenomenal fact of our presence in the present is to cast away ...”
03
When You're Unable to Follow Your Heart
“Following your heart isn’t something you can or can’t do, it’s something you do or ...”
02
You Influence Your Reality
“If you accept the challenges in life as negative and insurmountable, that’s exactly what they'll ...”
01
Loving Yourself
“I've learned that self-hatred, like depression, is a black-hole that has no bottom, a downward ...”
Mar
29
Existence is Circular
“Existence is circular. Day becomes night becomes day again. Life becomes death becomes life again. ...”
Quote Graphic: Your Future is Still Unwritten
“ This quote graphic was created by Emma Holmes. She was inspired after reading 11 Pieces ...”
26
Controlling the Speed of Life
“One of the biggest lessons I learned in my 20s: Life speeds up the more ...”
25
Two Ways to Tackle Distraction
“There are two ways to tackle distraction: avoidance and mindful practice. If you're distracted by ...”
24
On Gender Equality in Personal Writing
“In a recent thought that I published, I used the very non-gender-neutral words 'he' ...”
22
The Many Secret Centers of the Universe
“The world secretly revolves around those who revolve the world around themselves, but the reality ...”
21
Everything He Needs
“A man can lose everything, but if he still has his soul, his heart, his ...”
20
Learn to love thyself and all that is true will come to you.
“Learn to love thyself and all that is true will come to you.”
19
Great Spurts of Personal Evolution
“Great spurts of personal evolution often take place not in the well-written paragraphs of a ...”
11
Pressure Valve
“Maybe writing is a pressure valve that allows me to exist sanely.”
05
Heart Challenges
“When I talk about following my heart and doing what feels right it may sometimes ...”
01
Following Your Heart
“If you follow your heart life won't always be easy and simple, but the challenges ...”
Feb
27
Foresight and Worry
“Foresight combined with worry makes you worse off than having no foresight at all. You ...”
16
Empty Your Mind
“Empty your mind and your soul will see the light.”
15
Task Management
“In the age of knowledge work, task management is synonymous with life management. Free your ...”
02
Negativity
“Negativity begets more negativity. Positivity begets more positivity. If you want something, do it. Be ...”
Jan
28
Pleasure from Forgetting What's Natural
“When we, for our own pleasure, impose our view of the world on others, we ...”
21
Masochistic Love for Sensational News
“When we, as a species, collectively overcome our masochistic love for sensational news and watching ...”
18
Cleaning eval(base64_decode()) from a Hacked WordPress Website via SSH
“I received an email from a friend yesterday informing me that his WordPress site was ...”
16
Writing Style: Readers Welcome Influence
“Your writing style influences how your readers' inner ear hears your writing. In the same ...”
10
Crossroads
“At every crossroads the only choice that leads nowhere is the choice where you don't ...”
Stillness Speaks
“Stillness speaks, but only when you're listening. ”
Talking About Living
“Time is the fuel of life and those who are really living--and not just existing--rarely ...”
06
How You Respond
“You cannot always control what happens, but you can always control how you respond to ...”
05
Group Selflessness
“Selflessness--love without an expectation of reward--is often expressed on an individual basis, but when it's ...”
02
Auspicious Journey
“When you're following your heart there are no accidents, only serendipitous events propelling you forward ...”
01
Noisy Mind
“A noisy mind prevents you from hearing the wisdom whispered by the universe.”
2012
Dec
29
Do What You Love
“Do what you love and do it often. Living in pursuit of what feels real will ...”
28
Not Judging is a Judgment
“Note: You can download this Journal entry in MOBI format for reading on the Kindle ...”
20
Committing to the Adventure of Life
“To live means to exist with purpose, to act with intent and not apathy, to ...”
19
The Gift of Life
“The gift of life is enough; everything else is a bonus.”
17
Love
“Love, and you'll live a good life. ”
14
Live More Happiness
“Own less. Live more. Happiness is not a thing but an experience. ”
Lunar Transformation Donations
“Beginning on the New Moon of December 13th, 2012 and going through until the Full ...”
13
Resolving Disagreements
“I wonder what would happen if everybody on the Internet agreed to meet in person ...”
Within Each Step
“Within each raindrop there is an entire universe, within each moment the whole of time, ...”
Troubleshooting
“My 20 years of troubleshooting experience distilled in 140 characters: Step 1: Reproduce the problem. ...”
12
Wasted Human Potential
“Every time you see a human doing work ask yourself if it's feasible a robot ...”
11
Jealousy
“Jealousy is the expression of internal dissatisfaction and the toleration of self abuse. Jealousy indicates ...”
10
The Best Way to Live Simply
“The best way to live simply is to simply live, without expectation, without regret, with ...”
Conquer Your Fears
“You're only afraid of what you fear. ”
09
Why I Travel
“I travel the world not in search of anything, but because it is my home. ...”
Think Smiles
“Think smiles. Think about the last time you were so happy that you couldn't help ...”
08
How a Modern Nomad Finds a Place to Sleep
“I pulled into the dark driveway and parked. There was so little lighting around ...”
Giving Your Heart Away
“You need not give your heart away to offer it wholly, for the one who ...”
07
What Effect?
“Why do you share what you share? What effect are each of your actions having ...”
04
Watch Your Thoughts
“Watch your thoughts. They are making you the person you are right now. What are ...”
02
You Need Your Heart
“You need your heart to love yourself and without that there is no you to ...”
Nov
30
Perpetual Wave of Change
“We're all riding a perpetual wave of change, sometimes surfing it successfully in between tumbling ...”
The Dead Are Old
“Old? The dead are old. You are young! Alive! Breathing! Live not for the end ...”
29
Alternative Medicine
“Isn't it alarming that we have a whole separate category of medicine called 'alternative medicine'? ...”
Perfect Opportunity
“No moment is perfect, but every moment is a perfect opportunity.”
28
Seeking Simplicity
“In all areas of our life, we should be seeking ways to simplify. Simplicity, as ...”
27
Stop Searching for Motivation
“If you're searching for motivation, stop. You shouldn't be doing it or it's not the ...”
26
You Are Here
“You are here right now, not there or going anywhere.”
At Your Fingertips
“You have the entire world at your fingertips; you really don't need to buy anything.”
The Elastic Snap of Reality
“Everything changes. If you hold on to the way things were, you're bound to experience ...”
True Strength
“The true strength of anything can only be determined by setting it free, for it's ...”
24
Embracing Simplicity
“There is great strength in embracing simplicity, for simplicity embraces the whole universe.”
23
Sensory Atrophy
“Computers only activate two of our five senses, whereas nature activates all of them and ...”
22
Breathe Life Into This Moment
“It doesn't matter how much you love what has passed. It doesn't matter how perfect ...”
19
Look Not Backward
“Look not backward with nostalgic sadness into the frozen sea of changelessness, but forward with ...”
Reading Distractions: Questions
“Writing creates an adventure, a series of thoughts and images that lead the reader, carrying ...”
16
Standing Alone in the Darkness
“Creativity feels good, being free to brainstorm and think and try and test and then ...”
14
Timeless Essence
“The closer you get to the essence of things, the more you recognize originates there. ...”
Unrealistic Passions and Dreams
“Never let someone convince you that your passions and dreams are unrealistic or unworthy of ...”
Be With You
“It's easy to lose yourself in the fog when you're everywhere but where you are, ...”
13
Gunk of Expectation
“Until we release gunk of expectation, there will be no room for the growth of ...”
12
The Greatest Loss
“The greatest loss for any human is the loss of hope, for it is hope ...”
Reciprocal Selflessness
“Love, the Yin-Yang of the universe, is the purest expression of reciprocal selflessness. ”
08
The Most Powerful Antidote
“The most powerful antidote for any individual or society to avoid becoming domesticated sheep can ...”
Running from the Rain
“There are few things I find as curious as humans running from drizzling rain: it's ...”
07
On the Importance of Daily Practice - A Passage from my Free-Writing Journal
“I have a folder called 'Free-Writing' that I created almost a year ago with the ...”
06
Vote with your Lifestyle
“Reuse more, buy less. Think more, talk less. Do more, watch less. You voice your ...”
Deception
“Deception, even in the name of a good cause, never leads to the building of ...”
05
Creating Jobs
“Instead of waiting around for politicians and businesses to create jobs for you, start thinking ...”
02
Thank you
“I love you guys. Thanks for listening and being curious. ”
Fears
“Do you walk toward your fears or do you run away from them? ”
01
Craft
“What is your craft? Have you mastered it?”
Immortality and Perfection
“The search for immortality and perfection are the quickest routes to discovering imperfection and death. ...”
Oct
31
Prioritize Health
“Prioritize health. What’s the point of freeing ourselves if we’re forced to experience that freedom ...”
30
Linked to the Real-World
“Datacenters in the northeast US running on diesel generators are running out of fuel and ...”
Has fear replaced purpose?
“Can fear replace purpose? Is it possible that in place of purpose, many are living ...”
29
Fear
“Sometimes fear is a good thing, but most of the time it's a rationalized excuse ...”
28
Gratitude
“Be grateful for everything you have, can do, and have done, because there is someone ...”
27
Valuable Work
“When was the last time you worked on something and thought, "I could see this ...”
Thought and Action
“When thought collides with action, stuff is born. ”
26
Hard Things
“Hard things are usually only hard because we say they are, not because they actually ...”
24
A Medium for Thought and Knowledge
“The web is a medium, like air or earth, through which our senses receive and ...”
Envision an Unwritten Future
“When I was younger, I thought that my future held my circle of friends; we ...”
22
Flow, Commitment, and Why I Run
“I’ve always known that I wasn’t very interested in “showing off”, or doing things just ...”
21
Mastery
“What have you mastered? ”
17
Dropping Commitments
“When do you drop a commitment? If you have no responsibility to keep it and ...”
14
Serendipity
“Serendipity is the product of following intuition. ”
10
Modern Travel is Not Environment-Friendly
“I'm starting a 5-day journey on 7 airplanes, through 5 countries and 8 airports. The ...”
09
You Are Already Beautiful
“There is no person and no thing that can make you beautiful; you are already ...”
08
New Essay Topics and Other Site Updates
“I very rarely publish updates like this but there have been so many changes to ...”
Traveling by Intuition
“A big part of how I create and travel involves tapping into energies, these invisible ...”
05
The Park of Skeletons and Giant Trees
“There’s a park here in Hobart that I’ve walked through maybe a dozen times since ...”
04
Each Other
“Who are we without each other? Nothing more than walking sacks of water.”
03
Trust Starts with You
“Trust starts with you. If you don't trust yourself, how can you put your trust ...”
02
First Donation to a Street Musician
“I donated my first $2 to a street musician playing an accordion in Hobart, Tasmania ...”
Sep
24
Invest Yourself
“To invest yourself in something that has the potential to outlive you, that is wonderful.”
23
Tasmanian Street Musicians
“Yesterday I walked to the Salamanca Market in Hobart, Tasmania, a street market that opens ...”
Numbers
“If life was about the numbers you'd already be dead: nobody was born counting.”
Begin the Journey
“Unless we begin the journey, the journey will never begin.”
20
Friends are More than Contacts
“The dictionary defines 'friend' as "a person whom one knows and with whom one has ...”
19
Just Do
“Some things you think about. Other things you just do.”
First Understand
“Do not judge those who do things you don't understand without first understanding why they ...”
17
Essential Ingredient
“Freedom is always an essential ingredient for happiness.”
How We Live on the Outside
“How we live on the outside is a good indication of what we care deeply ...”
16
Speaking with Humanity
“"Thank you, everyone" carries far more humanity than "Thank you, passengers." In what other ways ...”
13
Improbable
“Improbable is that point in a journey where you can choose to risk success or ...”
A Writers Manifesto
“I, am a writer, and this, is my manifesto.  I write to explore and I publish ...”
09
Describing Tasmania
“If I had to describe Tasmania in one word, it would be dramatic. Two words? ...”
07
Make it a Lifestyle
“The trick to being on vacation all the time, or staying healthy, is to not ...”
05
Life Isn't Safe
“We all die. We all get hurt, make mistakes, and experience pain that seems impossible ...”
02
Safety Reinforces Sameness
“Safety reinforces sameness. If you want more sameness, say and do safe things. If you ...”
Talking about the Weather
“Why is the weather such a common topic for casual conversation? Do we really feel ...”
Making Money
“The term 'making money' is misleading. Are you 'making' money, or are you 'transferring' it? ”
01
Release Preconceived Notions
“Three years ago I was commuting in bumper-to-bumper traffic when I saw a duck in ...”
Aug
29
More Responsibility in 'I'
“There is more responsibility in 'I' than in 'we', 'us', 'they', or 'our'. We should ...”
28
Adding or Subtracting
“Everything you do--every thought, choice, action, and reaction--is either adding or subtracting from your health. ...”
24
Duty to Defend
“Practicing non-violence does not absolve us from our duty to defend against violence. If a ...”
22
Ignorance is Bliss
“Ignorance is bliss because the more knowledge you acquire the more ignorance you recognize.”
19
Do Not Despair
“Despair is an unforgiving, unsympathetic disease that eats time, steals life, and rots away hope. ...”
Explore the Unknown
“Our potential is only limited by how much of the unknown we're willing to explore.”
16
Living Volumes
“What volumes we live when we're living through our heart.”
15
Born Minimalists
“We're all born minimalists. We develop identity and our inclination to attach grows. But then ...”
Growth and Discomfort
“All growth requires discomfort, but not all discomfort indicates growth.”
13
To Fly When We Were Born to Walk
“ It is my hope that by the end of this essay you will look to ...”
12
The Art of Life
“Creation, turning thoughts and dreams into reality, is the art of life. ”
10
Ignorance without Humility
“Ignorance without humility leads to self-sabotage. ”
09
Notes: Truth by Nina Yau
“Nina Yau recently published her book, Truth. Here's what I shared with Nina after reading ...”
Travel Notes: Gratitude on Australian Busses
“One of the most interesting things I’ve observed on the busses here in Australia is ...”
Running Notes: Learning About Chafing
“Yesterday I set a new personal record for running: 11.22 miles (18 km). While this ...”
My First Video with One Million Views
“Early last week I considered traveling south from Cairns, Australia to Canberra, Australia to attend ...”
08
Eternally Optimistic
“Nature is eternally optimistic: whatever the situation, even in the face of total annihilation, it ...”
07
Stop Searching
“For just a moment, stop searching and do something with what you've already found. ”
Pain
“Pain is only temporary. ”
05
Toward the Stars in Search of Answers
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk around on another planet? Imagine ...”
03
Educational Marketing
“I overheard an excited 6-year-old say at McDonalds, "I wish school had a playground like ...”
Imagined, not Discovered
“Most limits are imagined, not discovered. ”
Living in Congruence with Ourselves
“Congruency is compatibility, agreement, and harmony. If we're living in congruence with ourselves, then our ...”
02
Patience
“Patience is your greatest asset in any challenging situation. ”
01
Consistent Struggle
“A great volume of consistent struggle will always lead to transformation. ”
Jul
31
Ask, Shout, Listen
“Ask, if you want attention; shout, if you want to be heard; but if you ...”
30
Receiving What You Want
“Unless you're prepared with the courage to receive it, what you want won't come to ...”
Three Days, Two Nights, Forty-Four Strangers
“For three days and two nights, forty-four strangers become a tribe, a group of people ...”
Public Smoking
“Smoking anywhere that makes it possible for someone else to smell the smoke implies that ...”
27
Travel Notes: The Cheapest Way to See Australia
“When I decided to visit Australia a few months ago, I knew that getting to ...”
Notes: Letters to a Young Poet - Letter 2
“Written between 1902 and 1908, "Letters To A Young Poet are ten letters written to ...”
Notes: The Laziness Paradox
“In The Laziness Paradox, Scott Young writes about something that I've always had a hard ...”
26
Understanding the Foundation
“If we do not understand what makes up the foundation of our good fortune, how ...”
24
Stimulatingly Useful
“Razzle-dazzle tactics that attract attention eventually get boring, hurt, and then become repulsive. Want attention? ...”
22
Limitless Dreams
“Dreams are limited by what we believe we can and cannot do; release expectations and ...”
21
Two Exist as One
“To appreciate the illuminating power of happiness one must first know the deep shadows of ...”
20
Conditioning
“The mind is far more powerful than the body: condition them accordingly. ”
19
Notes: Correct Posture by Capt. Godfrey Rodrigues
“Correct Posture - Its meaning and its results is a fascinating little book on posture ...”
Notes: Chi Running Video
“While looking for YouTube videos that demonstrated examples of proper running and walking gaits, I ...”
Notes: The Strangeness of Everyday Things
“Have you ever repeat­ed a word to your­self so many times that you begin to ...”
Notes: Letters to a Young Poet - Letter 1
“When I met Lisa Rigano earlier this year she recommended that I read Letters to ...”
Notes: Is this not true for all of us?
“"Some of our dreams come true, others do not; some people stay close, others move ...”
16
Challenge Reality
“Challenge what you know to be true. The worst that can happen is you'll learn ...”
12
How I've Been Sweating the Little Things
“I tell myself that I don’t sweat the little things, that I’m really good at ...”
Don't Sweat the Little Things
“When something happens and you realize, “Crap! this is gonna screw things up”, just accept ...”
10
Peaceful Strength
“Strength comes from those things which are, at their core, peaceful.”
05
Communist in our Pursuit of Knowledge
“As a species we should be communist in our pursuit of knowledge and democratic in ...”
02
The Other Side of Discomfort
“I spent this past weekend learning a new language. Not a spoken language, but a ...”
Greed of Laziness
“When the love of knowledge overcomes the greed of laziness, the world will know progress. ”
Jun
28
Universal Truths
“A banana cuts like a banana no matter where you live. It doesn’t matter whether ...”
22
Love Your Life
“If you don't love your life, you're missing out. ”
18
Simple Complexity
“All complexity is simple when you look at it simply. ”
15
Notes: Life is real! Life is earnest!
“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead ...”
14
Notes: Be Your Best Self
“Scott Young writes about how we should not become trapped by trying to 'be ourselves', ...”
09
Notes: The Inner Artist and the Inner Businessman
“I posted the following thoughts on Shanna Mann's blog post, My Art Is My Business-- ...”
You cannot take back footsteps
“You cannot take back footsteps already taken, so let be what has been and walk ...”
May
28
Is this sustainable for humanity?
“The 'sustainable model' that I try to gauge myself against is that of equality for ...”
27
Wordless
“When you have no words, say nothing.”
25
Reach for the Stars
“There's a reason humanity needs to reach for the stars: if we don't, we'll eventually ...”
Notes: Publishing for Readers
“From Thom Chambers' The Micropublisher, Issue Two, comes this bit about publishing for readers: What if ...”
Notes: How will we interpret loss?
“Is this not true for all of us? Some of our dreams come true, others do ...”
Travel Notes: Left-side Driving in Australia
“I could feel my brain resisting the change, like stirring molasses with a big spoon ...”
24
Knitting Life Together
“If we're looking forward -- into the unwritten darkness of the future -- then how ...”
19
Unused Freedom
“Unused freedom isn't freedom; it's dormant potential. Activate your potential by being proactive with your ...”
15
Limitations
“Whatever you feel is holding you back, it's not holding you back as much as ...”
Motivation
“Motivation isn't, unless you do something with it.”
14
Playing in the Corner
“The whole world is your oyster, so don't just play in the corner. ”
11
Nothing to Lose
“Life's too short to get caught in a loop, so do what makes you happy. ...”
10
Notice them
“There are a lot of people in the world, but only a tiny fraction of ...”
Travel Notes: Flying to Australia
“"I am in New Zealand... of all the places in the world, I am in ...”
09
Pretending
“Pretending everything is okay when it's really not is always more painful in the end.”
07
Seeking
“We're all seeking something, but what we're seeking isn't nearly as important as how we ...”
Giving the Gift of Giving
“For a long time I resisted kindness and assistance when it was offered to me. ...”
05
Truth Heals
“Truth can hurt, but there's also nothing more healing.”
04
Don't Delay
“You never know when -- or if -- you'll get another chance, so if it ...”
03
Risk Being You
“ If you could erase everything you know about yourself, who would you become? Imagine for a ...”
02
When the end of your world arrives
“When the end of your world arrives, what you did won't matter as much as ...”
01
Change Who You Are
“It's never too late to change who you are because who you are is always ...”
Apr
30
Right Now
“Right now it doesn't matter what you've done or what you’re going to do. Right ...”
Illuminating Beauty
“Getting rid of the non-essential illuminates the beauty of what you have.”
28
Catalysts
“Every once in a while someone comes along to remind us why change is essential. ...”
26
Embrace Life
“Life works in endlessly mysterious ways; the only way to make any sense of it ...”
24
Notes: Your Blog is a Barometer
“Thom Chambers writes about using your publishing platform to detect when your personal growth is ...”
23
Oldest Marathon Runner in the World
“I came across an article about a 101 year old man, Fauja Singh, who completed ...”
It's all fleeting
“After being asked what message or lesson he would like to give the world, this ...”
Paradise
“We live in paradise; it's also called Earth.”
Travel Notes: Conclusion to my 2012 Road Trip
“After watching Space Shuttle Discovery take off from Cape Canaveral (video), I drove nine hours ...”
21
How big is your savings?
“A 'savings' can represent more than money: education, experiences, friendships, community, reputation, outlook; all are ...”
16
Move to Remove
“The more frequently we move (in all realms), the more likely we are to recognize ...”
Notes: The living voice, counts for a great deal
“"Honor those you quote by practicing their wisdom and then quoting yourself; be not a ...”
Notes: Authors should be held to a responsibility of "do no harm"
“Matt Gartland writes in Issue Two of The Micropublisher, about a responsibility authors should be ...”
Notes: Collective Consciousness Requires Unique Individuality
“Lynn Fang wrote recently in her letter, Embracing the Shift, on Living Systems Theory & ...”
Notes: Climate change is a moral issue on par with slavery
“This article in The Guardian gave me an entirely new perspective on our responsibility protect ...”
Notes: Near real-time wind map of the United States
“An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the ...”
Travel Update: Leaving Florida, Planning for Australia
“After electronically obtaining a six-month Australian tourist visa over the weekend, I purchased my one-way ...”
Travel Notes: Thoughts on Florida
“I don't know what it is about Florida that attracts me here. Perhaps it's the ...”
14
Ethereal Moments
“The beauty of life isn't found in its brevity, but in those ethereal moments that ...”
12
Change, or nothing will
“If you don't change anything, nothing will change.”
11
Give Inward
“We cannot give peace, love, or happiness to others if we're not first at peace, ...”
09
Reverence for Nature
“The next time you see a rock, or a tree, or a large body of ...”
06
Inhaling Peace, Exhaling Release
“I have what feels like the entire earth to myself, this huge open expanse inviting ...”
03
Neutral Reputation
“When it comes to reputation, what has been said and what has been done are ...”
02
When it feels right
“You can never go wrong when it feels right.”
Mar
31
Notes: How to engage in lifestyle design
“Vic Phillips invited me to contribute to a post he was putting together called '20 ...”
Notes: "Any given person is dumber as a member of an audience than as a reader."
“Paul Graham writes about why writing superior to the spoken word as a source of ...”
Notes: Traveling Writer
“Thom Chambers writes about the difference between being a 'travel writer' and being a 'traveling ...”
Notes: Thought is born of frustration
“I recently reviewed my task management process and in doing so I read an ebook ...”
Notes: "The art of life becomes literally artless."
“If you think of your art. What is the ultimate purpose? Once you have reached ...”
Travel Notes: An Abrupt Closing on Road Trip Notes
“I've been procrastinating with finishing my travel notes from the road trip. Today I finally ...”
29
Understanding the Present
“The present cannot be fully understood until it has entered the past and received an ...”
28
Guiding us Forward
“Time always guides us forward when we're willing to walk with it.”
27
Crisscrossing the Cosmos
“We are atoms crisscrossing the cosmos, combining to paint a collage of colorful collisions and ...”
23
Inhale, Exhale
“Inhale solitude, exhale gratitude.”
22
Infinity of Urgency
“Don't let the energy of your attention flow towards the infinity of urgency.”
Urgency vs. Importance
“Urgency creates an attention poverty. It deprives us of the present moment and encourages us ...”
21
Stop Sticking with the Plan
“When life doesn't go as planned, stop sticking with the plan! ”
19
Freedom comes with Responsibility
“A society that gains the freedom of self-governance and freedom of speech also gains the ...”
A Meeting with the Rebel of My Heart
“When was the last time you felt compelled to do something or to change a ...”
15
Notes: The Living Universe
“Lynn Fang explores the intersection of science and spirituality and in her latest letter, The ...”
Forge Action
“There seemed to be some misunderstanding around the message in my previous essay, You are ...”
11
Don't be a Mirror
“Honor those you quote by practicing their wisdom and then quoting yourself; be not a ...”
10
Counting Down
“All our clocks are counting down.”
Converting Amazon EC2 On Demand Instance to Reserved Instance
“If you've created an Amazon EC2 On Demand instance and you later realize you'll be ...”
08
Notes: "To say 'I love you' one must first know how to say the 'I'."
“Amit Sonawane writes about a letter received by Ayn Rand: In May of 1948, author Ayn ...”
06
Notes: Counter the Counter-Culture
“In a recent letter, Sandra Pawula writes about being wary of simply accepting easily dispensed ...”
Thoroughly and Without Reservation
“The greatest gift we can give the world is to embrace who we are, thoroughly ...”
05
Regaining Our Humanity
“The proliferation of robots in our society won't take our humanity away, it'll give it ...”
01
Echos of the Present
“The past and the future are but echos of the present.”
The Resistance is Present
“For most of my life, I've only written and shared things post-experience and post-reflection. When ...”
Listen to yourself, listen to the universe
“We're all filters now, constantly presented with the task of deciding to read something or ...”
Feb
29
The Cost of Freedom
“Responsibility is the cost of freedom.”
28
Notes: A World of Worlds
“Shawnacy Kiker wrote an enchanting, soul-stirring, and enlightening piece of short fiction that does an ...”
Make Mistakes
“It's far better to make mistakes and ask for forgiveness than to play it safe ...”
27
Knowing When To Say No
“Knowing when to say no and then having the confidence to say it is evidence ...”
21
Travel Notes: Ithaca, NY
“In February 2012, I began a 17-day solo road trip through ten US states, driving ...”
19
Travel Notes: Saratoga Springs, NY
“In February 2012, I began a 17-day solo road trip through ten US states, driving ...”
Travel Notes: Northampton, MA
“As I mentioned in my latest journal entry, I'm going to start publishing travel notes ...”
18
Inside Relationship
“Some live alone inside; others live with their best friend.”
17
The right thing to do
“The right thing to do is always that which feels undeniably true to you.”
Doing what feels undeniably true
“"Where are you going next?" "I'm hiking the Appalachian Trail. It's something I've wanted to do ...”
13
Two ways to change the world
“There are two ways to change the world: selfishly and selflessly.”
11
Embrace Now
“We need to let go of what's next and embrace what's now.”
08
Notes: You are part of the discussion
“The following was written by Manuel Loigeret and I'm republishing it here with his permission. I'm ...”
Teach to Understand
“Those who really want to understand learn to teach.”
06
Notes: Solitude as a catalyst to innovation
“A quote from The Rise of the New Groupthink, an article in the New York ...”
Notes: How do you show yourself kindness?
“Sui Solitaire recently released Kindness Sprouts, a collaborative ebook of kindness and self-care. (She's generously ...”
02
Television Death
“You're not living in front of your television; you're dying.”
Notes: Tips for Life
“Julien Smith wrote an excellent list of 100 tips for life, people, and happiness. I'm ...”
01
Notes: Living in the Land of Enough
“Courtney Carver sent me a complimentary copy of her latest ebook, Living in the Land ...”
You are not what you read
“Now more than ever we need to stop listening to everyone else. We need to ...”
Notes: Should you always follow your intuition?
“Angela Artemis invited her readers in a recent newsletter to ask her a question related ...”
Jan
31
Ten thousand years from today
“The wind blows today as it once did ten thousand years ago, yet we think ...”
30
Notes: Giving Up the False Refuges
“I'm tired of taking refuge in all that is false. I'm tired of taking refuge ...”
28
Believe in Your Dreams
“Thought precedes action and you are what you do, therefore the dreams you believe in ...”
26
Notes: Evolving Beings: This is Your Year
“Evita Ochel interviewed me for her Evolving Beings in Action series several months ago. Recently, ...”
312 Paper Cups
“I save 312 paper cups each year by ordering my cafe drinks in a reusable ...”
25
There is more wisdom
“There is more wisdom inside you than in all the books ever written. Where are ...”
24
Sustainable Lifestyle Choices
“If my lifestyle choices cannot be sustainably replicated across all humans on planet Earth, I'm ...”
22
Notes: Reject Defining Yourself According to Exterior Standards
“Chris Guillebeau reflects on how he once chased a "proper education", striving for things simply ...”
21
Mindfulness Experiments: Discovering the Blanket
“I've been exploring mindfulness for the past few weeks and with that I've been making ...”
20
Mindfulness in the age of bits
“Mindfulness in the age of bits and infinite information requires letting go and releasing our ...”
Notes: Book Highlights from the Impossible Manifesto
“My highlights from Joel Runyon's Impossible Manifesto: Some time between our teenage years and adulthood, people ...”
19
Notes: A Case for Copyright
“In discussion related to the anti-SOPA protest, commenter grellas writes on HN about Copyright: Creative effort ...”
Notes: The credit belongs to
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the ...”
Notes: Book Highlights from The Tower
“From Chris Guillebeau's new manifesto, The Tower: A long time ago I was considering various titles ...”
17
Lead Yourself
“To lead others you must first learn to lead yourself. Where have you led yourself ...”
16
Self-moderate
“How much time do you spend reading what others are spending time doing? Does the ...”
Announcing the Journal
“I believe work should speak for itself, so this will be brief. A few months ago ...”
15
Notes: Deconstructing Celebrity and Accessing the Human Scale
“Craig Mod writes about his experience working in Silicon Valley and riding his bike through ...”
12
Notes: Inspiring Change
“Lynn Fang invited me to participate in a collaborative ebook project called Inspiring Change. The ...”
Notes: Own Your Idea
“Julien Smith writes about the importance of figuring out your message, your core idea, the ...”
Create habits of regular practice
“Without practice we maintain a plateau where progress stalls. To obliterate plateaus, create habits of ...”
11
Notes: Owning Yourself and Stripping Away False Identity
“In an article featured in Your Money, Your Life, Adam King writes about how after ...”
The Wandering Mind and the Wild Horse
“What's important? I've been asking myself that a lot lately. What is important to me ...”
10
Notes: Numb to the tragedies of this world
“Children often have an incredibly pure perspective of the world. In this short letter from ...”
Bring your mind home
“Do not let it wander and squander aimlessly; bring your mind home.”
08
Creators
“Who are we if not for our creations?”
05
Notes: Running a Lifestyle Business
“Thom Chambers' latest magazine, How to Run a Lifestyle Business, is a goldmine of motivational ...”
04
Notes: Blogging distilled to its essence
“Leo Babauta writes about something he came across in the desert mountains of Nevada. It's ...”
Notes: Traveling to satiate my hungry spirit
“Nina writes in her latest letter, Heeding the hunger of the spirit (subscription required), about ...”
2011
“Reverse Culture Shock, USA, Income Ethics, Florida, NASA Tweetup, California, Searching for Direction”
Dec
31
What's real is now
“There is a certain freedom that comes with releasing our hold on time. I wrote ...”
The Annual Placebo Effect
“It happens every year. The smiles, the handshakes, and the family get-togethers. The gifts, the ...”
30
The Online/Offline Duality
“Are you online or offline? Are you connected or disconnected? Are they your online friends ...”
29
Notes: Is this noteworthy?
“In a response to The Dangerous Effects of Reading (an essay I highlighted in a ...”
Notes: The middle-man to your happiness
“David Tate writes about the dangerous effects of reading, but more than that he explains ...”
Notes: Book Highlights from The Flinch
“The Flinch by Julien Smith is a short, but great read (it's available as free ...”
A Three Step Plan
“I see it everywhere, often in marketing and things that are demanding my attention. "Three ...”
28
Pushing Through 'The Dip'
“I believe that I'm at the point in this experiment that Seth Godin would refer ...”
27
Losing Focus Through Association
“Where is my focus? Am I focusing on the right thing? Am I putting too ...”
26
The Superior Guest
“If you were a guest in someone's home, would you criticize your host behind their ...”
25
Be Present
“Wherever you are, be there. Be present. It's the best gift you can give.”
Setting the Right Intention
“If you set the wrong intention, you'll feel like you're going somewhere without actually going ...”
24
Leaning into the Flinch
“What's the difference between the people who are remembered by history and those who make ...”
23
Notes: Entrepreneurs: Picking Something vs Being Someone
“I've read a lot of stuff over the past few years about building a business ...”
How important is it?
“Why do we set out to do something only to dismiss it entirely? We forge ...”
22
I know so little
“What do I know? I know so little. I don't even know how to breathe. ...”
Breaking Barriers to Self-Expression
“It's easy to write about what should be done. It's easy to see a problem, ...”
21
Notes: Anti-Sabbatical
“For most of my career (or rather, careers) prior to my becoming nomadic in 2010, ...”
20
Notes: Finding Your Writing Voice
“Finding my writing voice is something I've been taking seriously since the beginning of 2010 ...”
Say More
“When you say more, you underemphasize less. You may not be heard clearly, but you will ...”
17
Including Custom Post Type in Default WordPress RSS Feed
“To control what post types show up in the default WordPress RSS feed, you can ...”
16
Choose a direction, not a destination
“Life isn't about picking a destination and then spending the rest of your life getting ...”
Notes: The Next 50 Years
“In The Next 50 Years: Why I’m Optimistic Because Everything Will Be Terrible, science fiction ...”
15
Change your mind
“When you change your mind, you change your life.”
11
Notes: David Foster Wallace on Life and Work
“This article in the Wall Street Journal was adapted from a commencement speech given by ...”
10
Rainbows
“Rainbows are forever beautifully unique because their changing backdrop always offers a new perspective.”
Dreaming big or just big enough?
“If you always felt you were born to do something big, something really, really big ...”
09
Notes: Book Highlights from The Pursuit of Elegance
“"What made the Sopranos finale one of the most-talked-about events in television history? Why is ...”
08
Notes: Haiku Economics
“Will our successors, perhaps hundreds of years from now, better understand the link between art, ...”
Say Less
“When you say less, you emphasize more. You may not be able to say more, but ...”
07
Notes: End up at the right destination
“I've long resisted using social media in a way that didn't match how I socialized ...”
06
Notes: Creating a new civilization on Mars
“Elon Musk is one of my role models when it comes to thinking big and ...”
The greatest source of confinement
“We all value freedom, but perhaps in our foray on physical chains we miss the ...”
05
Forget everything you know
“When you forget everything you know, you end up knowing more than ever. ”
03
To live before you die
“What's your biggest, craziest dream, the thing that waters your eyes when you think about ...”
02
Do something silly
“Look up at the sky. Do you see the moon? Look at that moon and ...”
01
Notes: Going through imaginary walls
“Manuel Loigeret writes about going through imaginary walls and why we need to stop putting ...”
Why do we do what we do?
“If we don't understand why we do what we do, how can we understand how ...”
Design by Imitation and Rethinking Complexity
“After launching this Journal a few weeks ago, I realized that I was beginning to ...”
Nov
28
Passion Advertises Itself
“A passionate artist needs no advertisement.”
26
Notes: Willing to go naked
“A beautiful quote by May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude, referred to me by ...”
Notes: Meditating with your tongue
“This technique used by Manuel Loigeret as a path to go beyond words is incredibly ...”
Notes: The pain within ourselves
“Nina Yau shares an interesting and empowering way of looking at Facing Pain (subscription required): The ...”
Your Truth
“Your truth can't be found by someone else; it's yours and only you can discover ...”
25
Notes: Take an idea and run with it
“Thom Chambers writes about how focusing on a single idea and talking about it over ...”
24
Notes: We are the revolution
“Paulo Coelho writes about a rising revolution and changing attitudes: I’d say that the new political ...”
Notes: A problem with inspirational businesses
“Mark Silver writes in Is It Possible to Do Financial Harm to a Client? about ...”
23
Notes: We don't believe in credit cards.
“Dwolla is a tiny 12-person startup founded by 28-year-old Ben Milne. The company is looking ...”
Notes: Why 'Occupy Wall Street' Is Intensely Pro-Capitalist and Pro-American
“As someone who admittedly knows very little about economics, government, capitalism vs socialism, or the ...”
How Trusting the Universe Landed me a Job
“A few weeks ago I was approached with a job offer. I turned it down. ...”
22
Notes: We need a public majority of intellectuals
“Jason Caldwell, the lead developer at WebSharks, Inc. (a company I recently started consulting for) ...”
21
Notes: There is no reason a polymath cannot excel
“This is an older comment written by Lynn Fang on a blog post that Mars ...”
Notes: Digital Suicide and Understanding Your 'Why'
“My friend Ali Dark recently asked a circle of friends on Google+ if anyone felt ...”
Hang a Question Mark
“Nature has no broken status quo because the moment the status quo breaks down, nature ...”
19
Notes: Genetic Predisposition to Equality
“When he was asked in 2011 if there was anything he would change about what ...”
Notes: Why Indians Would Keep Their Hair Long
“This is a fascinating article about a subject not often talked about: The mammalian body has ...”
18
Misunderstandings
“The greatest obstacle in relations is an unwillingness to understand misunderstandings.”
16
Slowing Time
“The goal shouldn’t be to live as long as possible, but rather to create an ...”
14
Margin Notes for the Web
“A traveler evolves through the experiences he encounters on his journey. All of us are ...”
13
The status quo is
“The status quo is because it's not questioned.”
11
Volume Doesn't Equal Value
“The quality and authenticity of our intentions means far more than the frequency of our ...”
The Potential to Cultivate
“An oak tree may produce thousands of acorns before a single seed finds fertile soil. ...”
07
Permission Pricing for Digital Work
““Know your value,” everyone told me, “don’t undervalue yourself.” I was creating my first digital ...”
Welcome to the Journal
“According to Confucius, there are three methods by which we learn wisdom: First, by reflection, ...”
02
Understanding the value of what we have
“When we truly understand the value of what we have, our endless desire for more ...”
Oct
24
Leadership Change Starts Here
“We can't change our leadership spontaneously, but we can change ourselves instantaneously.”
19
Stop Taking Vacations
“If you take a vacation to enjoy life, stop taking vacations and change your life ...”
13
Following Through
“In martial arts, instructors teach us to punch and kick through our target. Instead of ...”
12
Notes: Cultivating Lion Heart to Push Through Challenges
“Satya Colombo writes about 'cultivating lion heart' and explains how challenges are here to push ...”
11
All of us are extraordinary
“All of us are extraordinary, but being extraordinary and acting extraordinary aren't the same thing.”
03
Businesses are not people
“People can be businesses, but businesses cannot be people (an important distinction, especially when selling ...”
Income Ethics: A Framework for Ethical Income
“ This is the conclusion of a four-part series on income ethics. The series describes my ...”
Sep
26
Writing from our essence
“Just as food that is cooked with love somehow tastes better, words that are written ...”
Income Ethics: Digital Art and Equality
“ This essay is the third in a four-part series on income ethics. The series describes ...”
19
A Life We Love
“Living anything less than a life we love is not really living at all.”
Income Ethics: Planetary Social Responsibility
“ This essay is part two of a four-part series on income ethics. The series describes ...”
15
Income Ethics: Embracing the Human Family
“ This essay is the first in a four-part series on income ethics. The series describes ...”
12
Notes: Testing Ideas and the Beauty of Being Human
“This comment was left by Jaive on Ali Dark's site. Jaive is a native of ...”
09
Where are you?
“Wherever you are, be there.”
08
Create to Share
“Have you ever seen a baby get excited about a new toy and then almost ...”
05
Sustainable Steps
“A small step today is more sustainable than a big step tomorrow.”
Aug
29
Lonely Bridge
“Sometimes reaching your destination requires that you leave behind everything you know to build a ...”
Lighten Your Life
“Life is not an ever-growing collection of successes and failures. It's not a bag of ...”
25
Born Among the Stars
“Earth, a pale blue dot floating in the cosmos, home to beings born among the ...”
22
Move Forward
“It's better to move forward tripping, falling, bruised, and scratched, than to sit down, give ...”
20
Notes: Justified Violence
“Nina Yau writing in Silence Equals Death (subscription required) about the hatred shown towards those ...”
19
This Moment
“Close encounters with death are the ultimate reminder that each day, each breath, is indeed ...”
16
Try Something New
“The best time to try something new is now.”
15
Karma Generator
“A middle-aged man struggled to slide the heavy door open and behind him a line ...”
12
Notes: Thom Chambers on the Future of Publishing in 2011
“This entire interview between Everett Bogue and Thom Chambers is great, but this particular response ...”
Live Alive
“Don't live today as if it was your last day alive. Live as if it ...”
09
Notes: 'Curation,' and journalists as curators
“While trying to figure out if the word 'curations' was the correct thing to call ...”
05
Do Different
“It's not enough to just 'think' different: we must 'do' different. Thought precedes action but ...”
01
Share Positivity
“Positivity uplifts and promotes happiness while negativity deflates and promotes depression. Share positivity. Be an ...”
Resist the Bandwagon
“Resist the temptation to ride the bandwagon; life has too much to offer to let ...”
Currents of Chaos
“On a bed in the middle of an emergency room, a small boy sits. Around ...”
Jul
28
Lean into Resistance
“Do not chase or be chased; lean into resistance and then deflect.”
26
It's OK to be quiet
“As long as you're listening, learning, and sharing when you're ready, there is absolutely nothing ...”
22
Slowing Down for Suffering
“ His frail body was draped in a black coat, hung from bones that outlined his ...”
21
We All Suffer
“We all suffer. We can either deal with it and continue suffering or slow down ...”
20
The Power to Change the World
“The power to change the world resides in our ability to change ourselves.”
18
Embrace Your Essence
“What signifies your existence? What does it mean for you to be alive? When you ...”
17
Silence
“It's okay to have nothing to say; the universe speaks in silence.”
08
Observing Evidence of Human Evolution
“We come together to observe great human achievements not to be selfish but to witness ...”
05
Fearless Love
“Take responsibility: Be a fearless example of kindness and love; be the person you wish ...”
Jun
30
Walking Reflections
“Look deeply into someone's eyes and you'll find your own reflection; we're all walking reflections ...”
29
Words Convey Energy
“Words are the conveyance of energy: cage them and you diminish their power and create ...”
Accepting Responsibility
“You're sitting at a cafe in one of two armchairs; a coffee table separates you ...”
27
Peace and Dissatisfaction
“Peace is ever-present; it's the ungrateful dissatisfaction with now that creates unrest.”
Together
“A whisper, “look!” In the flow, we go; traversing the land, not separate, but in ...”
24
Sensory Minimalism
“Everything is noise until we understand it. To put meaning to the meaningless, our senses ...”
22
Words are Clay
“Words are clay a writer moulds and massages, the soft soup with potential to solidify ...”
Kindness
“Kindness means opening your heart and letting go of pride.”
21
Finding Sufficiency
“When we're poor, sufficiency appears one step away. When we're rich, sufficiency still appears one ...”
20
Submerged in Love
“Love isn't something you run after, away from, find, or fall into; it's already here; ...”
17
Killer of Art
“The greatest killer of art is the pursuit of monetary profit.”
The Business of Life
“Business is not synonymous with monetary profit. If you're in the rat race, your business ...”
Same Destination, Different Journey
“We're all going to the same place, but we all arrive in our own way.”
16
Business Priorities
“If the top priority of your business is profit, you are not a people-oriented business.”
15
Let Go
“If you don't let go, you cannot receive. To receive, you must first give what ...”
13
Heart Growth
“Trees do not grow by greedily snatching the rain from the sky. Instead they cradle ...”
11
A Gift from Yesterday
“Today creates a world of its own, a world open to redefining what it means ...”
10
Human Dynamic
“The human dynamic is an unlimited source of creative potential; embrace it within and open ...”
08
Think Possibility
“Think possibility. See the world not as it's presented to you but as it could ...”
06
Meeting Those You Respect
“When meeting someone whose life you admire, it's so easy to compare yourself to everything ...”
04
Kindness and Sincerity
“Show gratitude with kindness; say 'thank you' with sincerity.”
02
Regretting the Past
“Regretting the past is regretting the present.”
01
As long as you're living
“As long as you’re living, learn. As long as you’re learning, share. As long as ...”
Unexpected Evolution
“Evolution doesn't happen when you want it to. Instead, it arrives unexpectedly, blindsiding you at ...”
May
30
Wisdom
“Wisdom is not wisdom unless it's shared.”
Caged Dreams
“A caged bird unable to fly will go crazy and pluck its own feathers, leaving ...”
29
Herds
“Herds exist for wisdom and support; if one provides neither, ignore it!”
28
Worthy of Influence
“To lead a life worthy of influence we must avoid the urge to 'fit in', ...”
27
Judged by the Wind
“A flower does not feel judged by the wind but instead allows the breeze to ...”
Judgmental Influence
“Those who commit an act of superiority cause others to feel judged. To avoid being ...”
22
Being you
“'Being you' means not trying to 'fit in'.”
19
Creating Reality
“Reality isn't created by leisurely sloshing around in the sea of life, but rather through ...”
Being Original
“Being original isn't about creating something unique. It's not about saying or doing or thinking ...”
18
Being original
“Being original isn't about creating something unique. It's about creating from your heart.”
10
Plateaus
“Plateaus are signals that the step we're on has fulfilled its purpose and that it's ...”
09
The Circle of Life
“ “I’m from Germany,” she said with a smile. “I was seventeen when I got married ...”
The road to depression
“The road to depression is paved in self-doubt.”
05
Giving Up
“When you give up, time catches up.”
Something Better
“There comes a point where we need to decide that something is "good enough". But ...”
03
Priorities and Security
“Days: 3,519. Wars: 2. Cost: $1.2 trillion. Children dead from hunger: 59,823,153. Security is important, ...”
02
Pride
“If we let our pride outweigh human life, we lose everything it means to be ...”
01
Experiences
“We may be able to buy access to an experience, but experiences themselves have the ...”
Apr
27
Don't tell people why they should be interested
“You don't need to tell people why they should be interested; let your actions and ...”
25
Earth is the backpack of humanity
“Earth is the backpack of humanity; let's not fill it with unnecessary, unsustainable junk.”
24
If you care
“If you care, communicate.”
23
When you love someone
“When you love someone, don't forget it.”
20
Being original
“Being original today is a challenge because there are a million ways to see what ...”
19
Know your edges
“Know your edges, for it is there you will attempt the impossible.”
18
When you don't have anything to say
“When you don't have anything to say, don't.”
17
Assessing the situation of life
“Time doesn't stop and wait for us while we assess the situation of life. If ...”
16
Get off the roller coaster
“Life is only a roller coaster when you choose not to get off.”
You are not who you say you are
“It's easy to complain. It's easy to talk. It's easy to wish, and dream, and ...”
15
I'm not going down without a fight
“If today was my last day alive, I'd tell my loved ones goodbye and then ...”
12
Reaching for freedom
“It was on this day 50 years ago that the human species managed to escape ...”
We enter each others’ lives for an unknown length of time, but we always leave behind shades of color. Leave beautiful shades.
“We enter each others’ lives for an unknown length of time, but we always leave ...”
07
Do not chase or run from time
“Do not chase or run from time, but rather hold hands and walk slowly alongside.”
04
Go with what feels right
“There are times in life when we need to go with what feels right. Ignore ...”
Nomad Financial Report for March 2011
“ At the end of every month, I publish a financial report stating my income and ...”
Mar
31
Not afraid to die
“On the flight to Florida yesterday, a strong storm rocked the airplane. The pilot aborted ...”
28
Think Sustainable
“ My mouse hovered over the "Confirm Order" button as I glanced back at the order ...”
22
The pulse of life gives us a framework for existence
“The pulse of life gives us a framework for existence, but what we make of ...”
19
Invest in being helpful
“Invest in being helpful; the dividends are amazing.”
18
Solitude isn't about being alone
“Solitude isn't about being alone; it's about spending quality time with you.”
14
Life is the result of how you live
“One year ago today, I packed one bag and boarded an airplane en route to ...”
12
Fear feeds on fear
“Fear feeds on fear. Breed even a little and it will devour you in an ...”
07
It's never too late to make up for lost time
“It's never too late to make up for lost time.”
Beyond Imagination
“ I traveled 1,300 miles by foot, car, subway, and two airplanes to watch a spaceship ...”
04
Nomad Financial Report for February 2011
“ At the end of every month, I publish a financial report stating my income and ...”
Feb
17
Giving your body time to get sick
“When you do things you don't love doing, you give your body time to get ...”
14
Love and Purpose
“ What's the ultimate purpose of life? When you strip away everything, what's left? I looked up ...”
10
Voting for Poverty
“Look into her eyes. Look at the expression her mouth makes, the red marks left ...”
09
Your lifestyle determines your health
“Your lifestyle determines your health. Exercise and good food will not compensate for an unhealthy ...”
05
Writing is the art of communication
“Writing is the art of communication, an art that requires a lifelong commitment to improvement ...”
04
Building a planetary community
“Building a planetary community that will abolish inequality requires the will to sacrifice and embrace ...”
Envisioning the Future
“ When Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned a future America where the color of his skin ...”
Jan
31
Nomad Financial Report for January 2011
“ My time in India last year showed me how little humans actually need to survive ...”
29
How to stop feeling like your ideas are already taken
“How to stop feeling like your ideas are already taken: Instead of searching for them, ...”
28
Nature takes care of the laws
“Nature takes care of the laws. We need to take care of the love.”
27
Focus on what makes you human
“It's better to focus on what makes you human than to obsess over the technology ...”
26
You have a human body
“You have a human body, in a human world. No matter how "connected" you become, ...”
24
Stepping into the Darkness
“ With each step, the ambient light from the house dissipated. The ground was cold and ...”
18
Focus on what is important
“The difficulty or complexity of a challenge does not determine its importance or value in ...”
13
Ignoring the calling of your heart
“Unhappiness manifests itself when you ignore the calling of your heart.”
Failure is a synonym for learning.
“Failure is a synonym for learning.”
11
Wishing for a good day
“Wishing for a good day is rarely as successful as attempting to create one.”
10
Escaping Cages
“ The cage rattled and the creature inside gnawed and pulled at the metal bars. It ...”
08
Fear can either be a gatekeeper or a motivator
“Fear can either be a gatekeeper holding you back from change or a motivator pushing ...”
03
2011 Annual Cultivation: Year of Nurturing
“ I was originally going to call this post the 2011 Annual Planning, but then I ...”
01
More risky than risking it all
“Doing nothing at all is more risky than risking it all.”
2010
“The Big Leap; Nomadic Lifestyle Transition; India, Vietnam, Nepal; Searching for Meaning”
Dec
29
2010 Annual Review: Year of Transition
“ We cannot kill time here on Earth. It's the other way around: Time kills us. ...”
27
Navigating the Annual Review
“ A ship's captain doesn't spend time staring at the ocean behind him; where the ship ...”
17
Carrying the Weight
“ It was below freezing and I was sweating profusely. A light snow dusted the ground, ...”
03
33 Moments of Introspection
“ "What if I had a clone? What if my clone wasn't complete and he needed ...”
Nov
16
Love is Enough
“ "Who's that Buzz guy?" "Buzz Aldrin? He was one of the first people to walk on ...”
Oct
27
Reaching Out to Mother Nature
“ Last week my nephew celebrated his first birthday and over the weekend I attended two ...”
21
Taking Initiative and Instigating Change
“ After reading my last blog post, Pemala, a Nepali friend and a regular reader, left ...”
11
The Revolution Starts Here
“"He had an Afro and he was wearing big pink sunglasses... he said he was ...”
04
Raindrops of Change
“ Imagine a city where every resident was someone who had changed the world in a ...”
Sep
28
Revealing Reality by Considering the Context
“ A few hours after arriving in the United States, I tried recording a short video ...”
20
Homesick in a Strange and Privileged Land
“I was holding back tears and trying to swallow intense emotions that were bubbling to ...”
14
9 Nomadic Principles for Everyday Life
“ As the speed of my life comes to a screeching halt in the United States, ...”
09
Starting the Journey to Ithaca
“ In the past six months I have lived in four countries and called more than ...”
03
The Lifestyle of a Minimalist Digital Nomad
“ "How many bags?" "Just one" I replied, motioning to the small 30L backpack on my shoulder. "And ...”
Aug
30
Frugal Travel Report for August 2010
“This is the sixth and final report detailing my travel expenses during a six-month trip ...”
27
Exercising Life with Fun and Play
“ It's one thing to see less fortunate people on the street and have the urge ...”
25
Fear of Failure as a Barometer for Success
“ "Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you're not failing from time to ...”
23
Taking Responsibility For Our Creations
“ Many people had told me that taking an airplane would be safer and on several ...”
18
Why You Matter The Most
“ For days after returning to Pokhara, my stomach was upset and my body refused everything ...”
13
Losing Focus in the Himalayan Mountains
“ I had only been in the small village of Hile for two nights and yet ...”
04
Discovering the Real Nepal
“ If I could take the past four months of traveling through third world countries and ...”
Jul
31
Frugal Travel Report for July 2010
“This is the fifth in a series of reports detailing my travel expenses during a ...”
30
A Himalayan Quest - I need your help!
“ Early Sunday morning, two brothers will pick me up from my hotel in Kathmandu. We ...”
27
Keeping an Eye on the Bigger Picture
“ My bladder was about to burst. Just a few more minutes, two more pages and ...”
23
Introducing a New Collaborative Project: Small Ways to Make a Big Difference
“ Exactly three weeks ago, I started working on a collaborative project that had no name. ...”
21
Advice for my Future Self
“ He looked noticeably older, a little worn, but utterly calm with a presence that ...”
16
Attitude is Everything
“ She smiled and asked in a somewhat sarcastic tone, "Do you live here or something?" For ...”
12
7 Pieces of Advice for my Younger Self
“ My upcoming ebook (due out by the end of this month) wouldn't be possible without ...”
08
It's time to care (in the real world)
“ This is a guest post by my buddy and good friend, Ali Dark. Ali lives ...”
03
Punching my Inner Critic in the Face: An Interview and a New Project
“It's so easy to be our own worst critic. When I was recently asked to ...”
Jun
30
Frugal Travel Report for June 2010
“This is the forth in a series of reports detailing my travel expenses during a ...”
25
An Inner Earthquake: My First Three Months Living as a Nomad
“ This past week marks three months since I left the place I called home for ...”
22
Travel Update: Tours, Families, Kids, and Air Conditioning in Vietnam
“ I mentioned in my previous post that I wasn't going to post on a schedule ...”
15
Arriving in Vietnam and Thoughts on Slow Travel
“The Malaysian Airlines red-eye from India to Vietnam was comfortable, but somehow I only managed ...”
11
Why Traveling to Third World Countries is Essential for World Peace
“ Every time I have heard the response to what someone would do given a billion ...”
09
What is Your Life Gravity?
“ At least in this dimension, everything relies on gravity. Even the creatures that have learned ...”
07
Sustainable Distribution of Abundance or Why I Don't Haggle in the Third World
“ I read somewhere recently that bloggers should be transparent to ensure authenticity. It made me ...”
04
Video: Follow Your Inner Compass
“ I recorded this video while I was walking back to the farmhouse in Ujire, India, ...”
02
Frugal Travel Report for May 2010
“This is the third in a series of reports detailing my travel expenses during a ...”
May
31
Reader Survey Results for May 2010
“After three months of budget hotels, rough buses, and grimy restaurants, the past few days ...”
28
Discovering the Beauty and Energy of Udaipur
“The beauty and energy of Udaipur left me at a loss for words. The morning ...”
26
Tired and Overwhelmed in Surat, India
“The four-hour train ride from Mumbai to Surat was cool and comfortable. It was my ...”
24
An Overnight Journey to Bombay and Painting Darkness with Light
“The fully booked train rolled into Mumbai Central Train Station at four o'clock in the ...”
21
Video: Always Live Mindful and Conscious
“ Join me as I cook dinner and contemplate the need for always living mindful and ...”
19
Reader Survey and Travel Update: Bed Bugs and Booked Trains
“A few nights ago I discovered bed bugs in my mattress. It was my first ...”
17
Discovering Sandals Made of Gold and the Link Between Frugality and Gratefulness
“ It was my first day in Gokarna, a small beach town on the west coast ...”
14
21 Ways to Improve Your Daily Health
“Spending time in the gym or following a strict diet are great, but they still ...”
13
How to Use the New Facebook Like Button
“Facebook recently (within the past few weeks) released a new feature that allows for "Liking" ...”
12
You are an Artist
“Everything you do is art. From the moment you wake up until the moment you sleep, ...”
10
A Vision for Life on Earth
“I have a vision for a world where everyone is healthy and educated. A curious ...”
07
Video: My First Night in a Cheap Indian Hotel (Sleeping with Unwelcome Visitors)
“ My first night in a cheap Indian hotel was not without its surprises. As this ...”
Restricting WordPress Tags by Category
“Have you ever needed to display category tags? If you want to only display the ...”
05
The First Step to Making a Difference
“Do you want to stand out and make a difference in the world? Are you ...”
03
Frugal Travel Report for April 2010
“This is the second in a series of reports detailing my travel expenses during a ...”
For the Love of the Command Line
“One of the reasons I fell in love with the command line is that it ...”
Apr
30
Communicate with Humans not Statistics
“Have you noticed that the combination of global news, social media, and information and communication ...”
28
Lessons from a Crab: The Right Path in Life isn't Always Obvious or Easy
“On the way to the remote farmhouse where I'm staying in Ujire, India, there is ...”
26
Frugal Travel Report for March 2010
“Frugal Travel Reports March 2010 (includes Pre-Travel expenses) April 2010 May 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010 *** As promised in my ...”
23
The Plan: 6 Months, 3 Countries, and $3000
“I'm currently about a month and a half into my life-changing, soul searching, press-the-reset-button-on-life trip ...”
21
Sprout Your Ideas by Watering Them With Confidence
“Have you ever had an idea that you immediately pushed aside because you felt that ...”
20
Dabbling in Logo Design
“I'm a minimalist at heart. For the longest time I refused to use anything but ...”
19
Video: Eating a Cashew Fruit
“ Have you ever wondered what a cashew looks like straight from the tree? The farm ...”
16
Why There Is No Secret To Success
“Success is one of those things that just about everybody wants, but not nearly as ...”
14
30 Interesting Things I Learned in India
“My first day in India was quite interesting. Now that I've been in India for ...”
12
28 Life Lessons That Help Me Balance Life
“I spent the first six hours of my 28th birthday in India, on a seven-hour ...”
11
A Newfound Life Purpose
“I have always been someone who was "into everything" and "all over the place". My ...”
09
My First $100 in India and a Message of Thanks
“It's been almost one month since I arrived in India (26 days to be exact) ...”
07
My First Substantial Vegan Dinner on the Farm in Ujire, India
“ I cooked my first substantial vegan dinner on the farm in Ujire, India using rice, ...”
05
How I Discovered That I Was Discriminating
“I consider myself to be a very open-minded individual, so the recent realization that I ...”
02
My First Jeep Ride in India
“There I was, walking around the busy center of town in Ujire, India, sweating more ...”
Mar
31
A Tour of the Farmhouse in Ujire, India
“ Here's a quick tour of the farmhouse I'm staying at in Ujire, India. It's relatively ...”
29
Live Each Day To The Fullest
“The following is a guest post by David Turner. He emailed this amazing story to ...”
25
Contemplating Contentedness
“ In this video I contemplate a feeling of content that I began to experience after ...”
22
A Quick Update from a Remote Farm in Ujire, India
“If you're following me on Twitter, you might have seen my last two updates about ...”
19
To Video Blog or Not To Video Blog?
“ Note to RSS & E-Mail readers: You may need to visit the site to watch ...”
17
My First Day in India
“The plane landed in Bangalore India early in the morning. This was my first trip ...”
14
The Entire World Is Knocking At My Door
“ As I flip through one of the four airplane magazines from the seat pocket ...”
08
Why India? Choosing the First Destination for my Nomadic Journey
“When the news began spreading that I would be making a huge lifestyle transition and ...”
06
How to Sell Anything in 6 Hours
“I'm leaving for India in exactly one week and I'm determined not to leave any ...”
05
Are you storing stuff to ignore it?
“When I moved out of my big apartment to downsize to a smaller place back ...”
01
Trip Date Confirmed; Inner Turmoil Found
“This is big. My feet will be on the opposite side of the planet two weeks ...”
Feb
23
Welcome New Readers!
“ There has been a recent increase in the number of new vistors and RSS ...”
19
We're not lab rats, damnit. We're humans!
“Are you a dreamer? Do you frequently find yourself gazing off into the distance getting ...”
17
One Year Without Black Coffee
“I love coffee. I drink it black. No cream. No sugar. Ever. It has been extremely tough ...”
12
Capturing Moments of Passionate Inspiration to Produce your Best Writing
“What is "passionate inspiration"? Passionate inspiration occurs when you feel so inspired by something that you ...”
06
What does it mean to be successful?
“Success isn't something you can frame on the wall. It's not something that you can ...”
Jan
30
Find the Courage to Be Yourself
“Be yourself. It’s not impossible, but it takes courage. It takes courage to be and to ...”
29
Site Update: A New Theme
“Writing about changes to my site theme feels a lot like writing a big "I ...”
28
Moving WordPress to a New URL and New Permalink Structure
“When I decided to change the permalink structure and move my WordPress blog from blog.raamdev.com ...”
23
Searching For My Blogging Focus
“This isn't a post about my currently-in-progress lifestyle transition. It could be, but it isn't. This ...”
16
What the hell am I doing?
“Today marks the first day in ten years that I am without my own place. ...”
12
An Invitation to Follow my Lifestyle Transition
“Traveling the world and exploring new places and new cultures has been a lifelong dream ...”
Mac OS X: Replicating md5sum Output Format
“The md5sum program is used to calculate and verify 128-bit MD5 hashes. This program is ...”
06
Consulting Maxims to Live By
“A while back I stumbled across Steve Friedl's awesomely informative article, "So you want to ...”
05
PHP Session Permission Denied Errors with Sub-Domains and IE7 or IE8
“I encountered a strange problem with IE7 and IE8 where if I visited example.com first ...”
01
Goals for 2010
“For the past few years I have compiled a list of "New Year's Resolutions" to ...”
2009
“Bankruptcy, Downsizing, Tech, Exercise, Reevaluating Life”
Dec
31
Year in Review: 2009
“This year has been one of self-discovery and of asking myself what I should do ...”
30
Best Posts of 2009
“As the year wraps up, I look back through the archives and pull out what ...”
28
Book Review: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
“ The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don ...”
27
Completing Last-Minute 2009 Resolutions
“One of my 2009 resolutions was to read one book every month -- twelve books ...”
24
279 Days to Overnight Success by Chris Guillebeau
“One of the bloggers I've been following for the past few months is Chris Guillebeau. ...”
23
The Passing of my Grandfather
“My grandfather passed away in his sleep last Thursday at the age of seventy. I clearly ...”
18
Restricted Growth: The Butterfly in a Kevlar Cocoon
“Up until recently, the volume of information that I have had to deal with has ...”
16
How I Revamped My Web Hosting Business
“During the past two months or so, I’ve pushed really hard to finish a project ...”
Removing the GMail "On Behalf Of" Sender Header
“Like many of you, I have several email accounts and while using GMail as my ...”
13
Mac OS X: Fixing 'Always Open With'
“After installing the TextMate editor I wanted all shell scripts (files ending with the .sh ...”
12
Choose Happiness and Growth
“There are few things in life that are absolutely, one hundred percent, guaranteed. Death is ...”
07
10 Ways to Nudge Yourself Into Action
“I recently took action on a big decision. This “taking action” literally came down to ...”
01
Getting out of my Perfectionist State of Mind
“I've been spending a lot of time working on the new website for my web ...”
Nov
20
Preparing a Mac for Resale with OS X Leopard
“When reselling a Mac, it's nice to give the new owner an experience similar to ...”
Mt. Jackson & Mt. Webster
“ This past Monday I hiked Mt. Jackson, checking off another 4k footer from the list ...”
19
Developing my Personal Brand
“This past weekend I read Colin Wright's free eBook on Personal Branding. While I had ...”
14
Unix/Linux: Finding and Killing Processes by User
“If you've ever run ps aux | grep user to list processes and hunt for ...”
11
Mac OS X: Resizing Oversized Windows to Fit the Screen
“I recently switched from a 15" MacBook Pro (2007 model) to the latest 13" MacBook ...”
Create and Share Value
“Do you add valueless content to the digital world? How much of what you say ...”
10
Redefining the Purpose of my Technology Blog
“A little over nine months ago, I announced Solid State Raam, a technology blog dedicated ...”
Oct
31
The Calm Before the Storm
“I’ve noticed a pattern with my blog posting frequency: Whenever my daily life is going ...”
30
The PADI Open Water Diver Course
“The following is a semi-detailed account of the PADI Open Water Diver course I took ...”
29
Taking my First Breath Underwater
“One of my 2009 resolutions was to become a certified scuba diver. At the time ...”
18
Falling to Earth from 12,000ft
“ One of my 2009 resolutions was to complete the Accelerated Free Fall (AFF) program which ...”
07
Floating in a Bubble
“The past few weeks have been quite unusual, to say the least. Things around me ...”
Sep
18
Developing Intimate Familiarity
“When I started taking piano lessons, my tutor was constantly stressing the importance of becoming ...”
17
Mt. Tecumseh
“ On Labor Day, I hiked Mt. Tecumseh, the lowest of the official 48 four thousand ...”
16
Mt. Tripyramid (North & South Peak)
“ On Labor Day weekend, I hiked Mt. Tripyramid, one of the official 48 four thousand ...”
15
Labor Day Weekend Camping Trip
“ I went camping this past Labor Day weekend and bagged three more of the official ...”
14
The bad guy isn't technology, it's our inexperience
“The topic of discussion on NPR this morning was E-Memory and Human Nature. They were ...”
10
Awhile vs A While
“Today while writing an email, I used the word "awhile" and then realized I wasn't ...”
Aug
31
My swim trunks and a tiny island
“Today at my parents house I swam 1/4 mile to a tiny island (the lake ...”
26
You are what you repeatedly do
“I've been taking piano lessons for the past two months. I haven't written about it ...”
MAC Address Validation Regex with egrep
“I needed an easy way to validate a MAC address in a bash script that ...”
18
Using my feet for that which they were designed
“I've walked more in the past few days than I have in the past few ...”
16
Becoming interested in the lives of others
“The more comfortable I get with who I am, and the closer I become to ...”
13
Somerville Apartment
“As some of you already know, and as I mentioned a few weeks ago, I ...”
08
The more we have, the less we appreciate
“This post started as a comment in response to Colin Wright's post on Your Money ...”
07
Possessions: The Closing of a Chapter
“A chapter of my life is coming to a close. It's been a chapter of ...”
Jul
26
What I've been doing away from the computer
“I have spent less time in front of my laptop this month than any month ...”
19
Help me get rid of my tech books; $10 $5 bucks, any book
“As I transition to a mobile lifestyle (at least more mobile), I realized that I ...”
12
Mobile Computing Revised
“I really hate making excuses for not posting on this blog more regularly, but this ...”
04
Going Cold Turkey on all Liquids Except Water and Tea
“A few months ago when I went cold turkey on coffee, my goal was not ...”
Jun
27
How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
“If you've ever wondered how domains expire and what happens to them when they do, ...”
25
Predicting the iPhone's Impact on Computing History
“Almost exactly one year ago I wrote about how I thought the iPhone was the ...”
22
A Script to Install & Configure ifplugd on Debian
“The default configuration on some older Linux systems is to only send a DHCP request ...”
20
Configuring Kayako SupportSuite to Close Tickets via Email
“If you're using Kayako SupportSuite to process emails and turn them into tickets, you might ...”
18
Caprica (Extended Pilot)
“The 2-hour extended pilot of the new TV series Caprica takes place 58 years before ...”
Adding a Google Calendar with iPhone 3.0
“One of the nice new features of the iPhone 3.0 software is the ability to ...”
17
A compromise between city and rural life?
“A few days ago (actually, a few weeks ago; holy crap!) I wrote about my ...”
15
An Excerpt from the Koran (8-20)
“While eating lunch at Life Alive today, I picked up a book called The Essential ...”
08
Movie Review: Pontypool
“Tonight I watched Pontypool, a very "different" type of zombie movie. I thought it was ...”
05
It's not my house anymore
“Several times a month, I find myself going out of my way to drive by ...”
02
Added Solid State Raam Feed to Sidebar
“I've added an RSS widget to the sidebar of this blog that displays the last ...”
01
Cooking food with positive thoughts and positive energy
“While sitting at my favorite vegan cafe, Life Alive, I overheard one of the employees ...”
May
29
Should I move back to the city?
“I've been thinking about moving back to the city; Cambridge to be specific. A little ...”
28
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random...
“"The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion ...”
Finding your Passion
“I've been struggling with trying to find my passion for as long as I can ...”
27
Memorial Day Weekend Activities, Time, and Twitter
“Over Memorial Day weekend I spent lots of time being active, playing volleyball, badminton, and ...”
21
Videoblog: Starting the Dyna-Flex PowerBall with my Thumb
“This is my first videoblog. I'm demonstrating my new Dyna-Flex PowerBall and explaining how I ...”
20
Alert to All Mac OS X Users: Protect Yourself from CVE-2008-5353!
“Update: TidBITS writes that Apple has released a patched version of Java that fixes this ...”
19
Changes at 40,000 ft
“Lots of things have been changing for me lately, mostly by my choosing. While I ...”
16
Rock Climbing
“I spent three hours today taking the Skilled Top Rope climber course at MetroRock in ...”
13
Started playing volleyball again
“I played volleyball at my brother-in-law's house today after work and it was a great ...”
12
More Yoga
“With the new workout routines I began recently, my muscles (especially the hams, quads, lower-back, ...”
An Inspirational Story of Freedom
“Imagine living with nothing but the contents of two backpacks. Imagine the freedom that would ...”
08
Saving Files as root From Inside VIM
“Oftentimes I will be editing a Linux configuration file using vim only to discover that ...”
07
Advanced Linux Programming
“The authors of Advanced Linux Programming "take a tutorial approach and teach the most important ...”
06
Swollen Shins as a Result of Muscular Imbalances
“Over the course of the past 27 years, my posture has suffered greatly from the ...”
04
My Blog is not the Amazon.com Returns Department!
“Last year I wrote a post about the Amazon.com website being down. In the post ...”
To sleep or not to sleep?
“Everything I've read about fitness and sleep during the past ten years has talked about ...”
01
Internet Explorer: Incorrect Password During Certificate Import
“While importing a P12 certificate into Internet Explorer today, I got a message saying "The ...”
Apr
30
WordPress Annoyance: Publishing a Post Opens Edit Post Page
“The latest version of WordPress (or at least this got changed in one of the ...”
Started a New Upper Back Workout for the Month of May
“I started a new workout for the month of May. It's an upper back workout ...”
27
How I Plan to Fund a Motorcycle Purchase
“My desire for a motorcycle doesn't seem to be going away, so I've come up ...”
26
Fourth April Camping Trip
“The weather was beautiful this weekend (temperatures in the 80's during the day, and the ...”
25
Third April Camping Trip
“This camping trip took place last weekend so this post is about a week late, ...”
23
Convert any Website into a PDF!
“HTML to PDF Converter is a service that allows you to provide the URL of ...”
21
How to be a Programmer
“How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary is an excellent essay. ...”
18
Wild Envy
“Is it right to feel, while I'm driving to work one sunny seventy-degree day, a ...”
17
Physical Training Involves Body and Mind Conditioning
“Physical training is as much a conditioning of the human body as it is the ...”
16
Forcing fsck to Run on the Next Reboot
“If you need to make sure fsck runs on the next reboot, here's a really ...”
15
The Three W's: What to Write Where?
“I'm not sure why, but lately I've felt as though I haven't had much to ...”
12
Second April Camping Trip
“On my way up North on Saturday, I stopped at an Army Surplus store in ...”
10
Book: The Warrior Elite
“ The Warrior Elite - The Forging of SEAL Class 228 by Dick Couch follows ...”
09
Where is the time going?
“As of late, life has felt like the pages of a book in the hands ...”
05
April Camping Trip
“On Saturday I decided at the last minute to go camping in the White Mountains. ...”
Mar
31
Did You Know?
“This has got to be the most awesome, awe-inspiring videos I've watched in a long ...”
30
My New Workout Routine: Navy SEAL PT
“I've started doing a Navy SEAL calisthenic workout routine that takes about 60 minutes and ...”
29
Clay Shirky on Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
“I just finished reading Clay Shirky's post, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. It's a bit ...”
26
The Importance of Offline Backups
“WebHostingTalk.com, a very popular community used by both consumers and business owners to review and ...”
24
Hiking Loverens Mill Cedar Swamp
“On Saturday, I visited my friend Adam in NH and we spent five hours hiking ...”
20
Overcoming Desire, Part II
“My brother bought a motorcycle this past weekend (a black 1992 Honda Night Hawk 750cc) ...”
17
Adjusting to a new routine
“A few days ago I decided to finally get into a routine of starting the ...”
16
Starting the Day Earlier
“I've decided to start going into work earlier (6:30AM) so I can leave the office ...”
13
Conducted my first two interviews
“I conducted my first two interviews today and I must say, it's quite a different ...”
The sooner you start, the easier it will be
“I've been put in charge of hiring someone at work to help elevate some of ...”
12
Installed Subscribe to Comments Plugin
“I installed the Subscribe to Comments plugin by Mark Jaquith, a plugin that WordPress.com chose ...”
11
Exhausted
“I've been keeping up with my workout routine quite religiously lately, spending about two hours ...”
10
Learn to Easily Interpret Military Time
“For at least half my life now I've favored military time, or the 24-hour clock, ...”
08
My Foray into the World of Firearms
“My only experience with firearms prior to this weekend occurred when I was twelve or ...”
07
Playing Tetris and Pong with Emacs
“I'm vi user, but I'm slowly trying to pick up Emacs too. I discovered today ...”
06
BigDog: The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth
“Boston Dynamics, a Waltham, MA-based robotics company with funding from DARPA, has created what they're ...”
05
A busy past few days
“The past few days I've been extremely busy with projects at work. That plus my ...”
02
Comparing the iPhone with the BlackBerry
“For the past eight months I've been an iPhone user and during that time I've ...”
01
Safari 4 Beta
“The new Safari 4 Beta web browser seems just as fast as the reviews are ...”
Feb
27
Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson
“Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson (the co-creator of the C programming language) is ...”
25
Should we be counting our hours?
“Daniel Tenner on why Counting hours doesn't make sense. When I'm continuously trying to get ...”
23
Configuring Static DNS with DHCP on Debian/Ubuntu
“Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a commonly used method of obtaining IP and DNS ...”
Vimperator Plugin Causing Accidental Post Publishing
“After several drafts on my new tech blog mysteriously appeared publicly as published, I discovered ...”
22
Going Cold Turkey on Coffee
“Coffee is the one thing that I have tried to quit several times over the ...”
19
The Pursuit of Knowledge
“I started writing this as a comment in reply to Adam Bossy's post The Paradox ...”
15
Additions to My 2009 Resolutions
“While my current set of resolutions for this year includes getting in the best shape ...”
14
Busy Free Time
“I've been spending a lot of my free time working on the new website for ...”
11
Taking Apart the $819 billion Stimulus Package
“The Washington Post has a great graphical breakdown of the $819 billion stimulus package. I'd ...”
10
Zoomism: Navigate by Zooming
“Zoomism allows you to navigate the site entirely by zooming. It's actually really fun and ...”
09
Google tells users to drop IE6
“Google tells users to drop IE6. All I can say is, good riddance! If there ...”
The End of Alone
“The End of Alone, an article in The Boston Globe, talks about how technology is ...”
08
I made a big decision today
“I made a big decision today. But I won't tell you about it until next ...”
Passing the 1,000 Posts Mark
“I just noticed that my previous post was the 1,000th post on this blog (there ...”
07
Browsing the Web with only a Keyboard
“The beauty and simplicity of the keyboard has always impressed me. As a kid, my ...”
06
A Special Valentines Gift for Unix Geeks
“This Valentines Day at precisely 00:31:30 CET (which is technically the day before Valentines in ...”
05
Reconfiguring my Time Management
“Time management is one of those things that Information Technology has made a fundamental requirement ...”
Updated the Modified Grid Focus Theme
“It took a bit of work to add support for comment threading (new in WordPress ...”
04
Upgraded to WordPress 2.7
“I finally got around to upgrading this blog to WordPress 2.7. My main motivation for ...”
How Amazon's EC2 Service was Born
“Benjamin Black talks about how Amazon's EC2 service was born. I've had some experience with ...”
03
A Time When Chain Letters Were Fun
“When writing Bash scripts I often use the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide for reference. By now ...”
02
Dom Sagolla on the Birth of Twitter
“Dom Sagolla, one of original people who helped create Twitter, talks about how Twitter was ...”
Instant Word Definitions on the NYTimes Website
“The New York Times has a great website. One feature I accidentally discovered today (although ...”
01
Introducing my New Tech Blog: Solid State Raam
“For quite some time now, I've been meaning to set up a blog dedicated to ...”
Ripping and Converting DVDs to MPEG-4 on Mac OS X
“I've been converting a lot of my DVDs to MPEG-4 recently. The process is much ...”
Jan
31
Made Typography Changes to my Theme
“I've made a few typography changes to the theme that will hopefully make it more ...”
29
A Realization that GUI Dependence can be Harmful
“After an arduous three days without my laptop, I finally have it back in my ...”
27
Gustavo Duarte on the Anatomy of a Program in Memory
“In his latest post, Anatomy of a Program in Memory, Gustavo Duarte explains beautifully the ...”
26
MacBook Pro Suffers from Defective NVidia Chip
“If you've been following me on Twitter, you may have heard that my MacBook Pro ...”
25
Leslie Orchard on the Usefulness of Tagging
“In response to the Do Tags Work? article by Cathy Marshall, Leslie Orchard, who used ...”
24
Cathy Marshall on the Effectiveness of Tagging
“Cathy Marshall, a senior researcher at Microsoft, conducted a short study on the effectiveness of ...”
Sinuses Overreacting to Nose Breathing
“This morning while doing my cardio workout (30 minutes, 3 miles) I decided to put ...”
Blogging from the Command-Line
“I'm a command-line person. If you can show me a command-line version of something I ...”
23
The C Programming Lanaguage is Very Much Alive
“ A recent survey says almost half (47%) of all new open-source projects in 2008 ...”
22
Pure Water Found on Mars
“A post on Slashdot yesterday mentioned that there is lots of pure water ice at ...”
21
Extremely Useful PHP Tools
“50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools is just that: An awesome list of stuff that makes ...”
20
Wikipedia's Database Schema
“The database schema for Wikipedia looks complex at first, but if you've ever had to ...”
19
How Last.fm Uses IRC
“Richard Jones, one of the co-founders of Last.fm, has a writeup describing how Last.fm uses ...”
17
The Importance of Breathing Through Your Nose
“Have you ever wondered about the importance of breathing through your nose vs breathing through ...”
16
A Light in the Darkness
“A Light in the Darkness is a great inspirational read for anyone who writes online ...”
Lazy Linux: 10 Essential tricks for admins
“Lazy Linux: 10 Essential tricks for admins is an awesome list of cool things you ...”
15
The Subterranean World of an Ant Colony
“Scientists pour ten tons of concrete down the hole of a giant ant colony and ...”
Most Innovation is Just Reinvention
“On the radio this morning someone was explaining how several current technologies very closely resemble ...”
14
Count Your Marbles
“Sean Johnson's post on 1040 Marbles talks about how we should learn to appreciate the ...”
Installing rTorrent on OS X Leopard (10.5) using Fink
“I've been using Transmission as a BitTorrent client on my MacBook Pro for a while ...”
13
Tim O'Reilly on Working on Stuff That Matters
“Tim O'Reilly has a blog post on working on stuff that matters. He makes several ...”
11
Do one thing every day that scares you
“Yesterday my parents badly needed sand because their big driveway was covered in sheer ice. ...”
Very Sore Chest and Arms
“It's been three days since I started my new workout routine and even though I ...”
09
Being Greedy With Bash
“Last night at my C/Unix class the professor quickly glossed over an interesting shell scripting ...”
08
Starting the P90X Workout Routine
“A few days ago a friend told me he was starting the P90X workout program. ...”
Another Surge of StumbleUpon Visitors
“A few weeks ago there was a sudden surge of StumbleUpon visitors to my Loituma ...”
An Example of Bad HTML Form Usability
“While recently reconfiguring a Netgear FVS-124G router I was astounded by the blatant misuse of ...”
06
Apple finally advancing laptop battery tech?
“AppleInsider has an article taking a look at the battery technology used by the new ...”
Instantly Preview Files in OS X using Quick Look
“I discovered this feature as I discover many new things in OS X: entirely by ...”
05
Bounce-back Spam (Backscatter)
“I really hate bounce-back spam! (I call it bounce-back spam, but the official name for ...”
04
Procrastination is a Time Killer
“I've been working feverishly this weekend on revamping the website and billing system for my ...”
02
2009: New Year's Resolutions
“Here are my New Year's resolutions for 2009: Get in the best shape of my life Improve ...”
2008
“Bank Foreclosures, Moved to Arlington, Dabbling with Technology, iPhone, Mac, Programming, Motorcycle License, Exercising, Perspective on Debt & Investments Evolving”
Dec
31
2008: Year in Review
“For the past few years I have been writing a end-of-year review summarizing major events ...”
30
Mint.com on Walking Away From Your Home
“I just finished reading a Mint.com blog post about whether or not you should walk ...”
26
Slow Down and Listen to Life
“When was the last time you voluntarily spent lots of time away from technology? When ...”
23
Three time-management books explored by Chris Hardwick
“Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek is a fun and interesting ...”
22
A Snowy Weekend of Snowboarding
“We had two big snow storms this weekend, one on Friday night that dumped 6" ...”
20
I subconsciously converted a problem into a shell script
“I have been writing a lot of shell scripts lately as part of the C/Unix ...”
19
HOWTO: Take a Screenshot on your iPhone
“Taking a screenshot on your iPhone is really useful for documenting stuff or when submitting ...”
HOWTO: Remove Google Software Update on Mac OS X
“A few days ago I wrote about how evil Google secretly installed software update on ...”
18
Using 'rsync --exclude-from' to Exclude Files Containing Spaces
“A few months ago I wrote a post about escaping filename or directory spaces for ...”
17
iPhone: Create an Application Icon from a Safari Bookmark
“Have you ever wanted to easily access to your favorite news site directly from your ...”
16
flaab.com - the wrong kind of motivation
“Flaab.com is a website that allows you easily create a motivational goal to lose weight. ...”
14
The day the Earth was run on Generators
“Well, not quite the entire Earth, but it almost seems that way. I saw The ...”
13
Photo: No Power
“Lots of businesses are still without power and the electric company says not to hold ...”
12
Power Still Out
“The power is still out in parts of NH and MA, including where I live. ...”
HOWTO: Show the Full Path in Finder's Title
“An annoying feature of the OS X Finder is that it doesn't show the full ...”
11
Sid Savara's Productivity Blog
“I discovered Sid Savara's blog today while browsing Hacker News. Unlike most productivity blogs I ...”
WordPress 2.7: Fixing 'Fatal error' with Automatic Upgrade
“A few days ago I installed WordPress 2.7 RC1 on one of my blogs to ...”
10
WordPress 2.7 "Coltrane" Released
“WordPress 2.7 has been officially released! It was only a few days ago that I ...”
09
Study, Learn, Read, and Grow Faster!
“Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better is an incredible compilation of ...”
08
Stunning Flower Photo on Flickr
“This has got to be one of the most stunning pictures I have seen in ...”
Two useful iPhone features you might not know about
“Here are two iPhone features I discovered entirely by accident and that I now find ...”
Moved comment and date underneath post title
“In attempt to fix a slight usability issue with this blogs' theme that caused the ...”
07
Minty Mints
“I came across an impressive self-hosted web site analytics program called Mint (haveamint.com). It's $30, ...”
Installed WP Super Cache
“I installed WP Super Cache on this blog as a drop-in replacement for WP-Cache (which ...”
06
HOWTO: Disable OS X Window Drop Shadow for Screenshots
“One of the awesome features of OS X is the built-in screenshot mode. It allows ...”
05
Evil Google Secretly Installs Software Update
“I was shocked to see this Google Software Update window on my Mac this morning ...”
04
Browser Resolutions of the Interweb
“I have often advocated designing websites to support as many screen resolutions and browsers as ...”
03
Yahoo DNS Issues Cause Problems in the United States
“Yahoo! appears to be inaccessible to people in the US. Visiting yahoo.com redirects to www.yahoo.com ...”
02
Seth Godin on Marketing Gravity
“Seth Godin has an interesting blog post comparing and contrasting gravity and evolution with marketing. ...”
Where have the acorns gone?
“The Washington Post has an interesting article talking about how there appear to be no ...”
01
WordPress 2.7 RC1: A Preview of What's Coming
“I'm following WordPress on Twitter and I was excited to see a recent tweet that ...”
Tim O'Reilly on why Twitter is so compelling
“Tim O'Reilly has a great blog post outlining some of the things he finds so ...”
The Conclusion of my 48-hour Detox Fast
“I just finished the longest fast I have ever completed. It's not really fair to ...”
Nov
30
Not Outsourcing my Comments to IntenseDebate
“I've been hearing a lot about IntenseDebate recently, in various blog posts and news sites ...”
29
24 hours into the detox fast
“It's been a little over 24 hours since I started my detox fast. A few ...”
Starting a weekend detox fast
“While using my laptop at a local veggie cafe, I overheard someone talking about doing ...”
28
Why the singularity may never arrive
“Max Tobiasen has an interesting post about why the singularity may never arrive (see technological ...”
27
Photo: Vegetarian Thanksgiving
“Yes, even vegetarians eat on Thanksgiving. :) ”
Photo: Relax
Should I segment my blog?
“Most of what I've read about good blogging practices relates to staying on topic and ...”
Who's There? by Seth Godin
“I just read Seth Godin's ebook Who's There?. It's a bit old (2005) but has ...”
24
HOWTO: Count Files Recursively with Exclusion on Linux
“Find all files in this directory, including the files in sub-directories, and exclude all files ...”
HOWTO: Make iTunes Read Ogg Files
“After downloading the only available torrent of Hang Drum music I could find, I was ...”
23
Google's Growing Visual Clutter
“Google's latest "feature" is nothing short of annoying. I fell in love with Google Search ...”
Mounting HFS+ with Write Access in Debian
“When I decided to reformat and install my Mac Mini with the latest testing version ...”
22
Romance, sadness, humor, and fear all rolled into one
“I don't know how to feel about this series of comics. The feeling is that ...”
Understanding the Linux Load Averages
“I have been using Linux for several years now and although I have looked at ...”
RAAMAA License Plate
“My brother-in-law snapped this picture of a NH license plate. Hey, that's my name! ”
21
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion...
“"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a ...”
20
NetBeans for PHP
“Sun Microsystems has added PHP support to their open-source Netbeans development IDE. I just tried ...”
Creating a Bootable OS X Backup on Linux: Impossible?
“I've had plans for a while now to set up a backup system using a ...”
18
WHM Whitelist to Exclude from Exim Sender Verify Callbacks
“Sender verification is an important feature used by email servers to help prevent spam. When ...”
17
Ubuntu Live-CD on G4 Mac Mini
“I've been trying to create a new partition on the 250GB drive I installed in ...”
16
Modified Grid Focus WordPress Theme
“I modified and applied the excellent Grid Focus WordPress theme by Derek Punsalan to my ...”
13
Motorcycle School Photos
“A few months ago when I got my motorcycle license, the instructors took photos during ...”
08
Energy follows thought
“"Energy follows thought. We move towards, not beyond, what we imagine. By expanding our deepest ...”
07
My failed attempt to hack the AT&T free iPhone WiFi
“You may remember that AT&T began offering free wifi for iPhone users earlier this year. ...”
05
Evolve or Die
“I have long accepted my limited social abilities and, for lack of any good reason ...”
Oct
31
Three hours to empty the truck...
“Three hours to empty the truck. That makes it a total of twelve hours moving ...”
Moving Day
“ I finally gave in and decided to rent a truck for moving. I generally refuse ...”
30
Wow, I'm moving to NH tomorrow...
“Wow, I'm moving to NH tomorrow. I think the reality of it is finally starting ...”
29
Fun uses of code
“The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has some cool demonstrations of what the C programming ...”
28
26
I just bought gas for $2.59. T...
“I just bought gas for $2.59. Three months ago people laughed at me when I ...”
25
My C Program Crashed the Terminal :(
“As part of my homework assignment (due tonight!), I have to write two versions of ...”
21
Apple Scoffs at Budget Laptops
“I came across a news article on Reuters that quotes Steve Jobs as saying that ...”
20
Welcome StumbleUpon Visitors!
“I'm a bit late to notice this, but I took a quick peek at the ...”
13
eBay Listing Removed for Search and Browse Manipulation
“I just received this email for an auction I listed almost 24 hours ago: The listing ...”
Pirating files is simply logical!
12
Selling my junk on eBay
“I've finally started selling stuff on eBay that I don't need or don't use regularly. ...”
11
HOWTO: Install md5sum & sha1sum on Mac OS X
“I was a bit surprised to learn that my Mac didn't have the md5sum and ...”
09
DD-WRT has come a long way!
“I just finished installing DD-WRT on a Linksys WRT54GL router for the office and all ...”
08
C Variables: Eerily Close to the Machine
“In C programming, things as simple as variable assignment are not quite as simple as ...”
06
Procrastination Results in 17-hour Homework Blitz
“I underestimated how long it would take me to finish my homework assignment for the ...”
03
HOWTO: Exclude songs when shuffling iTunes
“I have a bunch of audio books and other non-music files in my iTunes library. ...”
02
HTML Radio Buttons: A blast from the past!
“So there I was sitting in my C/Unix class at Harvard barely paying attention to ...”
01
Googlebot Relentlessly Using Bandwidth
“When one of my hosting clients complained about continuously running out of bandwidth on his ...”
Sep
30
Google Reported Attack Site
“ I'm sure some of you must have seen this warning when you tried to visit ...”
29
A Downside of Being Organized
“One of the downsides of being organized and having a clear picture of everything you ...”
25
Escaping Filename or Directory Spaces for rsync
“To rsync a file or directory that contains spaces, you must escape both the remote ...”
24
Comment Threading Coming to WordPress 2.7
“It looks like the WordPress commenting system will finally being overhauled in v2.7, including support ...”
Letting go of Stuff
“I've been consistently getting rid of stuff that I don't need or that I rarely ...”
A Week of Big Decisions
“This past week my head has been full of big decisions. Late last week, I ...”
23
xkcd: Tones
“ Amen!”
17
A Unique Perspective: College Campus
“Today marks the first day of my twenty-six years of living that I spent time ...”
It's frustrating when I'm look...
“It's frustrating when I'm looking for a good FOSS app and the best one I ...”
15
iTunes Genius is Genius!
“One of the new features of iTunes 8 is called Genius. It basically allows you ...”
12
How to become an astronaut
“How to become an astronaut is an interesting article. It describes the risks to consider ...”
11
Steve Jobs is a reality distortion field
“I rarely read the articles posted on Slashdot. Instead, after reading the article summary, I ...”
10
Reading Getting Things Done by David Allen
“As of late, I've been spending more of my free time reading and doing yoga/stretching. ...”
09
Think of debt payments as an investment
“Think of debt payments as an investment. When you make a $100 payment on a ...”
07
U.S. seizes Fannie and Freddie
“In what is being called a "historic government takeover", Freddie Mac and Freddie Mae have ...”
06
Switching to suPHP; What a Mess!
“When one of my users reported problems deleting files he had uploaded using a PHP ...”
03
Google Autocomplete for Search
“I just noticed the main Google page now has autocompletion for the search box: The feature, ...”
Toots & The Maytals - Sit Down Now
“I heard an awesome song on the radio this morning by Toots & The Maytals. ...”
02
Accessing the VMWare Fusion BIOS
“As noted in the Known Issues section of the VMWare Fusion Release Notes, the VMWare ...”
Labor Day Volleyball
“I played volleyball two days in a row (yesterday and the day before) at my ...”
Aug
27
Boston FU: Retractable Earbud Hack
“The first Boston Freehacker's Union meeting was tonight at Trident Cafe. FU rule #3 states, Everyone ...”
26
ASCII Scissors
“ASCII Scissors: ------8”
It Ain't Dead Yet
“It Ain't Dead Yet has pictures of some very awesome vintage equipment.”
EA SPORE Origins; Sounds like a Virus
“Check out Electronic Art's description of the upcoming SPORE Origins game for iPods and iPhones: Eat ...”
23
iPhone: Ambiance; Noise to Fall Asleep!
“I purchased the Ambiance app (link opens in iTunes) for my iPhone a few weeks ...”
21
Backup-Bouncer
“I haven't tried it yet, but Backup-Bouncer looks like a very useful tool for verifying ...”
Upgraded rsync from v2.6.9 to v3.0.3
“I just upgraded rsync on my Mac from v2.6.9 to v3.0.3 by following these directions. ...”
Accidentally Using an Old Version of rsync
“Last night I discovered I had been using an old version of rsync that did ...”
HOWTO: Create an ISO Image from a CD in Mac OS X
“Insert the CD you want to create an ISO image from into your CDROM/DVD drive ...”
20
Computer Quiz Required
“While registering for my Harvard email account, I came across this: Thank you. You must take ...”
18
I just lost 5 hours worth of w...
“I just lost 5 hours worth of work by accidentally overwriting a script I was ...”
Death Star over San Francisco!
“ This has to be the coolest Star Wars inspired video ever.”
17
What's really happening in Georgia?
“Watch as a 12 year old girl and her aunt begin telling the truth about ...”
Taking my First College Course this Fall
“I'm going to be taking my first-ever college course this fall at Harvard Extension School. ...”
11
Gmail: Temporary Error (502)
“ Looks like only some Google servers are experiencing this error; my other Gmail account works ...”
Hitachi LCD: Cable No Insert
“ If you're going to develop software for a display that will be shipped worldwide, please ...”
08
NetShare Gone for Good?
“According to a recent MacRumors post, NetShare is Unlikely to Return to U.S. App Store. ...”
07
Non-vegans/vegetarians love to...
“Non-vegans/vegetarians love to use the lack of meat consumption as a catch-all for any ailment ...”
06
This is why I cover my MacBook Pro
“ I'm using a black Speck MacBook Pro See-Thru Hard Case. It's done a great job ...”
Wow it got cold really fast; f...
“Wow it got cold really fast; from the upper 80's to the lower 60's overnight. ...”
Windows Error on Cable TV
“When I turned on the TV, none of the 76 stations seemed to be working ...”
05
Coding Furiously
“I've been working day and night for the past few days on an already-late project ...”
Making Checkboxes Behave like Radio Buttons
“A while back I found the need to have HTML checkboxes behave like radio buttons. ...”
03
Dream: An Alternate World
“I had an interesting dream a few weeks ago but haven't had a chance to ...”
01
Could this be the future of touchpads?
“ A multi-touch color screen touchpad using the same touchscreen as the iPhone? It could replace ...”
Jul
30
Fixing Boot-Time Dialog Display Issues
“Dialog is a really useful utility for creating professional looking dialog boxes and menus within ...”
29
The Last HOPE; not the last one
“I just watched the The Last HOPE Closing Ceremonies (which I missed because I had ...”
28
X-Men Origins: Wolverine; leak...
“X-Men Origins: Wolverine; leaked Comic Con footage! Part 1 http://tinyurl.com/66k244 and part 2 http://tinyurl.com/5ccfeg Looks ...”
I Killed a Bird Yesterday
“I killed a bird yesterday. He was dancing around on the road in front of ...”
25
Using CURL to Upload Files via POST to Amazon S3
“A few months ago I wrote a post about creating Amazon S3 HMAC Signatures without ...”
I just accidentally dropped my...
“I just accidentally dropped my iPhone from 4ft onto hard floor. It still works! First ...”
24
Leaving Send2Fax and Switching to FaxPipe
“I canceled my Send2Fax account after a visitor to this blog recommended I take a ...”
23
If you're going to give your S...
“If you're going to give your SSN over the phone in a public area (stupid), ...”
My Notes from The Last HOPE
“Here are my notes from The Last HOPE. I started taking notes late, so unfortunately ...”
22
Manhole Cover Made in India; Why?
“ This manhole cover was made in India and is covering a manhole in the United ...”
21
Yoda iPhone
“ tfsu?”
Apple's iPhone credit check mu...
“Apple's iPhone credit check must only be used to confirm information: My credit score is ...”
20
Girl behind me
“The girl behind me on the bus was telling her friend a story; suddenly I ...”
I'm starting to feel
“I'm starting to feel the effects of being awake for the past 31 hours. It's ...”
Listening to Adam Savage
“Listening to Adam Savage (guy from MythBusters). He is an awesome speaker (hilarious!); this place ...”
The guy who paid $200 to get a...
“The guy who paid $200 to get ahead in the iPhone line just stormed out ...”
Calling Kevin Mitnick
“During Kevin Mitnick's talk, he demonstrated how to unblock CallerID. He announced his phone number, ...”
19
Mitnick announced a limited # ...
“Mitnick announced a limited # of free businesscard lockpicks & everyone rushed 18 floors down ...”
18
Heading to NYC for the Weekend to Attend HOPE
“I'm on my way to HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) in New York City, a ...”
The BoltBus is awesome (boltbu...
“The BoltBus is awesome (boltbus.com). All new interior, outlets at every seat, free WiFi; like ...”
The word "mortgage" comes from...
“The word "mortgage" comes from the latin root mortes meaning "death to" and gages meaning ...”
16
iCal Missing AM/PM Option? Change to 24-hour Mode!
“Am I crazy or is there no way to make iCal show AM/PM when editing ...”
15
Good Comedy with Tech Industry News
“The news stories over at The Register, a British technology news website, are always filled ...”
12
Mortgage Lender IndyMac Seized by the US Government
“I was shocked to see news that IndyMac, the holder of the mortgage for my ...”
Sex in Space
“Britain's Telegraph has an intriguing article about Sex in Space (and on other planets). At ...”
11
When it comes to booking trips...
“When it comes to booking trips, I procrastinate. I missed preordering HOPE tickets & now ...”
08
Unable to connect using Sprint U727 on Leopard - FIXED
“After so many hours trying to fix the damn U727 USB Sprint card, I finally ...”
04
MacBook Pro Finishing Charge
“I've never seen this battery status message on a laptop before: ”
No truck until next week
“After waiting two hours for ProTech towing from Waltham, I decided to call another towing ...”
02
LiquidWeb Dedicated Server Support Rocks!
“A rouge mail server started using my server to send tons of spam messages. After ...”
Multitasking on my Mac
“Here is what my MacBook Pro desktop typically looks like while I'm working. All these ...”
Register.com Style Revamped
“After many years, it looks like register.com finally released a new style. It looks exactly ...”
01
Home cooked dinner: Sauteed po...
“Home cooked dinner: Sauteed portobello mushrooms in yellow onion & garlic with steamed zucchini & ...”
Problems Starting and Stopping MAMP in Leopard
“First of all, I love MAMP (Apache, MySQL, and PHP for Mac). I use it ...”
Jun
29
Mac Danzig is a Vegan
“I just found out that Mac Denzig is a vegan and has been since 1999! ...”
28
San Luis Reservoir, Route 99, and San Francisco
“ As I left Mojave, CA (where I comfortably spent the night in Motel6 with free ...”
27
A very cool map of the Interne...
“A very cool map of the Internet's undersea world: http://tinyurl.com/2n4mz6”
What the hell is up with all t...
“What the hell is up with all these idiot drivers today?”
Mojave Desert and Death Valley
“ I don't know what it is, but I love the desert. Endless roads, warm air ...”
26
Vegas, Lake Mead, Valley of Fire, and Hoover Dam
“ Friday night Sanjay dropped me off in front of the Bellagio on his way to ...”
25
InfoComm 08 in Las Vegas, NV
“ I went to Las Vegas, NV last week to attend InfoComm 08, the largest Pro ...”
24
MobileMe - Why Me?
“Adam Lisagor has a great post titled "Why Me?" talking about Apple's new MobileMe platform. ...”
@tweakt Irregular sleeping pat...
“@tweakt Irregular sleeping patterns wreak havoc on your appetite & diet. Try going to bed ...”
23
Driving through a small town t...
“Driving through a small town that grows garlic with my windows down. All I smell ...”
22
Out here in Cima, CA gas is $5...
“Out here in Cima, CA gas is $5.31 a gal. I heard people asking the ...”
Water found on Mars, NASA scientists confirm
“It looks like all those Sci-Fi books that talk about life on Mars are becoming ...”
19
The wild-west of Mexico a peek into the future?
“Mexico is like the wild-west of the United States. There are gambling rules, but you're ...”
18
Indian music in a Japanese res...
“Indian music in a Japanese restaurant creates an odd atmosphere”
Vegan Discipline
“It's difficult being vegan. Being vegan means you need to be willing to sacrifice. It ...”
17
Landed in Las Vegas. Flight wa...
“Landed in Las Vegas. Flight was packed; had a middle seat. Temp is 105 & ...”
16
Headed to Las Vegas
“I'm going to Las Vegas tomorrow to attend InfoComm with my boss. The flight leaves ...”
Father's Day Weekend
“I spent the weekend fixing bathroom plumbing at Cumberland RD, helping my sister and brother-in-law ...”
13
Installed DenyHosts to Help Prevent SSH Attacks
“When the LogWatch report from yesterday (for web.akmai.net) arrived in my Inbox, it had over ...”
11
iPhone: The future of mobile computing?
“ I just finished watching the WWDC 2008 Keynote Address and I am fully convinced that ...”
10
Rubik's Cube Algorithms
“Part One LIST OF ALGORITHMS Fi U Li Ui Ri Di R D U R Ui Ri Ui Fi ...”
09
Don't go food shopping hungry....
“Don't go food shopping hungry. You'll end up buying too much! $85 in food should ...”
08
Passed Evaluations for Motorcycle License
“I passed the evaluations for my class M license today with a 100% score on ...”
Yamaha TENORI-ON - A touch-sensitive sequencer
“ Yamaha TENORI-ON More YouTube videos of the TENORI-ON.”
07
Spent the entire 95 degree sun...
“Spent the entire 95 degree sunny day in an open parking lot, stuck wearing long ...”
reactable - A tabletop tangible multi-touch interface
“ A little old (in the technology world anyway), but still very cool. More YouTube videos ...”
06
Amazon Http/1.1 Service Unavailable
“This can't be good for business: I tested the website from a remote computer in Europe, ...”
Visiting www.amazon.com return...
“Visiting http://www.amazon.com returns Http/1.1 Service Unavailable. I also tested it from a remote computer in ...”
05
Firefox 3 Bug: Warn me when closing multiple tabs
“When I started using the beta version of Firefox 3, I quickly discovered a bug ...”
04
I stopped at a gas station in ...
“I stopped at a gas station in Cambridge to fill my bike tire with air. ...”
03
goosh.org - the unofficial google shell
“goosh.org uses AJAX and CSS to mimic a command line interface in your browser. You ...”
02
Class M permit test started ou...
“Class M permit test started out difficult; asking about exact penalties for certain offenses; changed ...”
01
Mac OS X Leopard: Grammar Check
“After upgrading to Leopard, I noticed something different while typing a message in Adium: The tooltip ...”
May
31
Upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard
“Well I finally did it. I upgraded to the latest and greatest version of Mac ...”
30
Multiple Query Problems with mysql_query()
“I was writing some code earlier today that involved writing data to two separate MySQL ...”
Tired Week
“I've felt unusually tired this past week. I'm not sure if it has something to ...”
29
Adding CC Recipients With PEAR Mail
“I use the PEAR Mail package quite often in projects that require sending email -- ...”
28
Switched to a Different Syntax Highlighter
“A few weeks ago I wrote about my annoyance with the iG:Syntax Hiliter. I've been ...”
26
Memorial Day Landscaping
“My landlord paid me to pull up the weeds and grass in the front yard ...”
25
New Register.com Design Accidentally Leaked?
“A few weeks ago visited register.com (sometimes I use their domain checker to quickly check ...”
24
The Object-Oriented Thought Process
“ I started reading a book called The Object-Oriented Thought Process. This book has been ...”
Loading Widget Added to GMail?
“I'm not sure if this is new or if I'm only now seeing it because ...”
23
21
Breaking Through a Plateau
“Wow. That was an awesome workout! For the first time in months I actually had ...”
Continuous Integration and PHP
“ | View | Upload your own”
Doomed to a life indoors?
“Is this generation of the technically savvy doomed to a life indoors? Is there not ...”
20
Case Sensitivity in Mac OS X
“Case sensitivity in Mac OS X does not exist. The OS X command line is probably ...”
Manu Delago - Hang Drums
“ The sound of Hang Drums is absolutely amazing. Today was the first time I heard ...”
19
The Real McCain
“ How does someone like this even get enough support to run for US presidency? Are ...”
16
I just filled my gas tank. I h...
“I just filled my gas tank. I had to do two transactions because the pump ...”
14
Dabbling in Java Web Programming
“A bunch of new projects at work are requiring that I become familiar with Java ...”
13
FeedBurner Login is Down
“I just tried logging into my FeedBurner account and instead of a login form I ...”
American soldier exposes US policy in Iraq
10
One more day of fence work
“Spent most of the day helping my brother-in-law and sister put up their fence. We ...”
Raam's Blog, Before and After
“A couple of weeks ago I upgraded to WP 2.5 and changed my theme. For ...”
08
Zinc and Magnesium
“I started taking supplements of Zinc and Magnesium today (100mg and 400mg respectively) after reading ...”
06
Phing: Building with PHP
“ | View | Upload your own”
Spring Flowers
04
Poison Ivy Infested Forest
“I spent the day installing fence in a poison ivy infested forest. Hopefully the washing ...”
03
Apple's home page not viewable in 1024x768
“ I do all my browsing with my web browser resized to 1024x768, mainly because I ...”
The face of Homer Simpson draw...
“The face of Homer Simpson drawn using nothing but letters and CSS. An incredible example ...”
Amazon S3 HMAC Signatures without PEAR or PHP5
“The Amazon S3 proposal for uploading via POST describes how to assemble a policy document ...”
01
Why can't there be a single me...
“Why can't there be a single method of tracking time? No, I don't mean the ...”
Apr
29
retailmenot.com
“retailmenot.com just saved me $40! I couldn't believe there was a coupon available for OmniGraffle. ...”
DoS Attack Causing Problems on AT&T Network
“There seems to be a DOS attack causing problems for connections routing through AT&T's network. ...”
28
Invest in the companies you buy from
“My philosophy for products is simple: It must be rugged and reliable. Whenever I decide ...”
xkcd - Zealous Autoconfig
“ "I hear this is an option in the latest Ubuntu release."”
Syntax Highlighting Plugins
“I'm getting sick of the iG:Syntax Hiliter bug that causes it to lose its configuration ...”
27
Something is wrong with the nerves
“Something is wrong with the nerves connecting to the pinky finger of my right hand. ...”
26
Fence Work
“ I spent the day helping my brother-in-law and my sister put up a fence in ...”
24
I Use Twitter, But I'm Not a Twitter Shitter
“Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through ...”
23
s3delmany.sh - Delete Many S3 Objects With One Command
“Update: The Amazon S3 service API now allows for deleting multiple objects with one request ...”
A Threatening Spam Message
“Wow, spammers are either becoming really desperate or totally creative. Here's a threatening email I ...”
22
Struggling with the big change...
“Struggling with the big change in my blog style. I'm seriously considering going back to ...”
21
WordPress Automatic Upgrade can't Upgrade Itself
“Choosing the "upgrade automatically" option from the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin to upgrade from v0.8 ...”
MacBook Pro Keyboard Lights
“I didn't realize how cool the MacBook keyboard lights looked in total darkness until I ...”
20
Pixeloo
“Pixeloo has two incredible images created entirely in Photoshop CS2; a lifelike Homer Simpson and ...”
Woke up with a massive headache
“I woke up this morning with a bad headache that got progressively worse. As I ...”
Installed Simple Spam Filter
“Last year I wrote about how Akismet didn't satisfy my spam-blocking requirements and why I ...”
19
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
“I just finished reading an excellent article called Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by ...”
How I decide whether something...
“How I decide whether something should be posted as an Aside or a full post ...”
Struggling with Online Photo Organization
“I've been seeing so many WordPress blogs with integrated Flickr photo streams showing off their ...”
Must... not... spend... the......
“Must... not... spend... the... day... inside.. on.. the.. computer. I finally have time to get ...”
4 AM -- Way too late to be wor...
“4 AM -- Way too late to be working on my blog. But, now that ...”
Upgraded to WP 2.5 and Changed Theme
“Yup, I did it! I've upgraded this blog WordPress 2.5 and, as I'm sure you ...”
18
Wrong Time on Overnight Parking Ticket
“Whenever I come home at night, I check to see if the person who lives ...”
14
Planning for the upgrade to WP 2.5
“I spent this past weekend setting up a copy of this blog in my local ...”
10
Every Little Bit Counts
“I watched a great documentary tonight called The 11th Hour, produced and narrated by, of ...”
08
Using Adium and Witch
“I wrote a post last year about replacing Command+Tab with Witch, an application switcher replacement ...”
07
An Active Weekend
“I've decided it's time to start making my weekends more active. Summer is fast approaching ...”
03
Four Characters That Break WordPress
“I was trying to write a post about some code for generating HMAC signatures without ...”
01
WordPress MU and BuddyPress
“I have a lot of big ideas in my head for different types of sites ...”
Mar
29
Interfacing with the Internet in the Year 2208
“What happens when the virtual world becomes more important, more interesting, and more popular than ...”
28
BristleBot
“I have got to build me one of these: Probably the coolest thing I picked up ...”
Buyer Backs Out of Sale
“The buyer who was interested in purchasing my $350,000 property for $180,000 has decided to ...”
27
What form errors?
“I tried creating an account on the Mozilla Firefox AddOn site and got this error: It ...”
24
Hard Work Weekend
“The past three days (including today) have been spent clearing out the 12x16' shed and ...”
21
Forward Slash, not Backslash!
“I was listening to the radio last night and heard the radio host announce their ...”
20
Prevent Long URLs From Running Wild
“When Raf commented on one of my recent posts by pasting a URL into the ...”
19
Obama Speech: 'A More Perfect Union'
“ I don't usually watch political speeches, but I've been reading a lot of news about ...”
16
Driving, Snowboarding, and Wiring
“ Today consisted of more than four hours of driving, exactly four hours of snowboarding, and ...”
15
Bank Accepts Offer on the Sale of my First Property
“A few weeks ago someone made an offer on my Cumberland Rd property and my ...”
12
What is the Purpose of an Ending?
“Everything has an ending, doesn't it? When we're talking about life and relationships, the ending ...”
11
Research Before Committing
“For the past few months, I've been meaning to purchase the latest version of WHM.AutoPilot, ...”
10
Quick Wireless Security using SSH Tunneling
“I'm a little paranoid when it comes to wireless security. Even if I'm on an ...”
08
The Customer Service Salesman
“There is a reason why popular brands are popular and a reason why you will ...”
05
Back to Bodybuilding
“After a long break, I'm back to bodybuilding. In addition to lots of stretching and ...”
03
My First Foreclosure
“Friday evening I called one of the tenants living in my Bowers St property to ...”
Feb
28
Why I tie up my Ladder
“I keep a small ladder and a snow shovel in the bed of my pickup ...”
27
New York Notes by Phil Hollenback
“I stumbled across this site by Phil Hollenback. After moving from Northern California to New ...”
Offers Accepted on Two More Properties
“A few weeks ago I accepted an offer on the sale of my first property. ...”
25
Making Money vs Spending Money
“It's so easy to spend money. So easy in fact that I catch myself thinking ...”
23
Three Great Information Nuggets
“The volume of information available on the Internet never ceases to amaze me. The Internet ...”
21
Moving to a New Office
“In case you're wondering where I've been, I have been busy helping move Aerva to ...”
18
Sprint EX720 EV-DO ExpressCard for my MacBook Pro
“ Several months ago, when I moved to another apartment in the same house, I decided ...”
16
Offer Accepted on the Sale of my First Property
“In 2003 I bought my first property, a two-family house in the Centerville area of ...”
13
Struggling to Maintain a Vegan Diet
“Ever since I started working out regularly, I have been trying to eat more protein ...”
12
Loituma Clock
“I was clicking through a bunch of flash loops on a site that I found ...”
11
Updated Basement Project Post
“I've added an additional page to the basement project post. It contains some pictures of ...”
10
Managing Trust and Expectation
“I've learned to trust only myself and to expect only one thing from everything else: ...”
08
ZDAY; should I host an event?
“I've been contemplating hosting an event. Thats right, you heard me, hosting an event. If ...”
06
My own version of the $1 Image Stabilizer
“I've seen the $14 Steadycam "The Poor Mans Steadicam" in the past and always thought ...”
05
Truck Window Broken; iPod Nano Stolen
“ The only thing they stole was my new $200 iPod Nano. By habit, I always ...”
04
Payton vs Eli Manning
“Aerva, the software company where I am employed, has created software called AerChannel, which provides ...”
01
MacBook Pro gets a Smaller Power Supply
“For the past few weeks, my local Microcenter has been out of power supply's for ...”
Jan
31
Tempeh & Chinese Broccoli
“I had about a cup and a half of leftover brown rice that had been ...”
29
Typing on Non-Editable PDFs
“Have you ever wished you could fill out non-editable PDF forms on the computer, instead ...”
28
Red Bell Peppers
“ As I was cutting these red bell peppers this morning, I was surprised when an ...”
24
Verizon FiOS Installed
“ Yesterday Verizon FiOS was installed in my apartment. I had to install an outlet near ...”
23
Verizon Fiber Installed on Pole
“ My Verizon FiOS installation is scheduled for tomorrow. Earlier this morning a Verizon truck came ...”
22
A Lesson in Social Engineering
“In this post I will explain how I was able to social engineer a local ...”
20
Cracked my BlackBerry Screen
“ I've dropped my Blackberry dozens and dozens of times onto concrete, brick, pavement, and even ...”
18
Hammering Nails Into My Lats
“This morning I woke up to the worst pain I have ever experienced in my ...”
16
Verizon Fiber Optic Cross Box
“I ordered Verizon FiOS last week and this morning a Verizon technician came by an ...”
14
Getting Around the Netgear Setup Wizard
“This information applies to the Netgear model WGR614 v6. It may also apply to other ...”
13
A surge in auto GPS receivers?
“Has anyone else noticed a sudden surge in the use of auto GPS receivers? It ...”
12
BEING HUMAN by Naima
“ I wonder if the sun debates dawn some mornings not wanting to rise out of bed from under the ...”
10
Tired and Sore
“My new workout regiment, and the changes I've made to my diet this week, are ...”
09
Ordered Verizon FiOS Internet and TV
“Earlier today my brother-in-law messaged me and told me about the speed test he ran ...”
08
F1 Boston Racing Pictures
“ I found these pictures from Thea's bachelor party last year. We went to F1 Boston ...”
07
Aerva in Boston Globe Newspaper
“ Aerva, Inc., the company I work for, made it into an article on the front ...”
04
Flames Shooting Out From Behind a Gas Stove
“Last night I was driving to my parents house when one of my tenants called ...”
03
Chasing House Mice
“ I found these pictures of a camping trip I took with my dad back in ...”
02
Arlington Apartment
“ It took three loads to move all my stuff. The new place is huge and ...”
01
2008 New Years Resolutions
“Here are this years resolutions, in order of importance (the first five are a continuation ...”
Year in Review - 2007
“The year 2007 was a very big year of adjustment for me. It was the ...”
2007
“Dabbling with Technology, House Troubles Begin, Decide to Sell all Real Estate”
Dec
31
Top Posts of 2007
“Here are a collection of posts that I consider some of my best and most ...”
30
Preparing for the move to Arlington
“As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I'm moving to Arlington. Katie, the current tenant, ...”
28
Why I no longer have an AIM profile
“For the past few years I've been using naim to communicate over the AIM and ...”
27
ETRADE Grammar Errors
“ How does a company as big as ETRADE allow for such content to be displayed ...”
26
PowerBook G4 vs MacBook Pro
“ First of all, this isn't so much a review as it is a very simple ...”
25
Happy Human Day!
“I don't celebrate any holidays but I was thinking about Christmas and I realized that ...”
24
Pretty Image Borders with CSS
“You may have noticed a lot of the pictures I've been posting lately have a ...”
21
A True New Englander
“There is an old lady who lives across the street from my second floor apartment. ...”
Third snowstorm in eight days
“Last Thursday we got 10 inches of snow and this Thursday we got another 6 ...”
20
ERROR 406: Not Acceptable
“The other day I was writing a script for work and discovered it wasn't behaving ...”
18
Attic Studio Renovation
“Back in 2003 I spent about $30,000 turning the attic of my 100 year old ...”
17
Using .htaccess to force SSL (https)
“I created a web application at work today and instead of implementing a full-blow authentication ...”
16
Starting the winter season off with a bang
“I predicted we would get a lot of snow this season -- looks like we're ...”
Where should you blow your snow?
“Not in my backyard! ”
15
Snowboarding at Loon Mountain
“ I went snowboarding at Loon Mountain with my brother-in-law and his cousin. We only had ...”
14
Uppercase table tags create extra whitespace in Wordpress
“When creating tables inside a Wordpress post, using uppercase TABLE and/or TR tags causes additional ...”
13
Winter storm gridlocks traffic, again
“Earlier this year, in March, I wrote about how a Nor'easter caused endless Boston traffic. ...”
12
Google Maps Street View: Boston added
“A few days ago Google added Boston to their list of Street View cities. Google ...”
11
Time is Relative
“Wired has a great article about amateur time hackers who use off-the-shelf equipment purchased on ...”
10
An Extension for Reordering the Thunderbird Account List
“I have several email accounts setup in Thunderbird (an awesome and open-source email client) and ...”
09
Police State 2008?
“ The original article can be found here.”
08
Political Bullshit
“I'm so sick of all the political bullshit I hear in the news. I don't own ...”
07
Bush's mortgage plan doesn't help MY situation!
“Forbes has an article today about the "Bush Administration's plan to rescue the housing market" ...”
06
Logitech VX Nano Wireless Mouse
“ Price: $70 @ MicroCenter Pros: Small portable mouse with a tiny receiver that doesn't get in ...”
05
Upgraded MacBook Pro to 4GB RAM
“ I couldn't pass up the awesome deal at NewEgg for 4GB of RAM for only ...”
04
Moving to Arlington
“The 1 year lease for my apartment here in Cambridge is up on December 31st. ...”
02
Cold MacBook Pro
“ I'm always afraid to use my laptop when it's cold. I always fear that condensation ...”
Nov
30
Don't fix what isn't broken: XP, Tiger
“I have long been an advocate of not immediately upgrading software. Most people upgrade simply ...”
29
Paper vs Electronic Writing Material
“  You can backspace on a word processor. You can shake an etch-a-sketch. If you mess ...”
28
Sometimes, it's OK to reinvent the wheel
“  If no one ever reinvented the wheel, we'd be rolling around on stone tires now. ...”
26
My First (Real) Electronics Project / Invention
“When I was 13 or 14 years old I discovered the need for something to ...”
24
Plain Text E-Mail Signatures
“The only thing I hate more than HTML emails are HTML email signatures. I can ...”
23
Burton RMA Service
“I bought a Burton snowboarding jacket last year for around $150. It was a great ...”
21
Plain Text E-Mail
“I have always disliked HTML email because I have always felt that the point to ...”
20
Tenant - Social insects living in organized colonies
“ant -noun social insect living in organized colonies; Ten-ant should therefore mean "many social insects living in organized ...”
19
Employee - Someone who is taken advantage of
“ploy –noun 1. a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage. Isn't it interesting that to ...”
18
Problems with Speakeasy's Billing Procedures
“A couple of weeks ago, I canceled my Comcast broadband service and transferred my Speakeasy ...”
15
Subversion on Mac OS X
“My workplace is switching from CVS to Subversion for source-code version control so I need ...”
14
Using Procmail to Mark As Read
“I've seen a couple of blog posts explaining how to mark Maildir messages as read ...”
Bird of Prey Outside my Window
“ I looked out my window this morning and saw this hawk tearing apart another bird. ...”
13
Micro-dislocating Ankle Joint
“I woke up last Monday unable to move my right ankle. It wasn't just stiff, ...”
11
Open Source Resistance
“ Check out the Open Source Resistance website. The site seems to be updated very infrequently, ...”
10
SSH Logout Hanging Problem: Fixed!
“For several years now I have experienced the same problem when disconnecting SSH connections to ...”
08
Believe in Possibility
“In bodybuilding, it is known that you should always work your weakest muscle first. If ...”
07
Linux Uptime: 428 days
“18:02:11 up 428 days, 3:31, 3 users, load average: 0.14, 0.09, 0.09 This is ...”
06
Reverse DNS: That's not me!
“I have Speakeasy DSL at home with a static IP address (I'm boycotting Comcast). I ...”
05
Windows Uptime: 2,386 Hours
“ That's 99 1/2 days for the Windows 2000 Server located in one of my client's ...”
Let CJ Move in Peace
04
CJ is now Packin' the P.O.D.!!
“ This picture is a bit old, and things were cleaner when CJ was moving.”
01
DNA is not Destiny
“ I have never believed that I was limited by my genetics, nor that I could ...”
Oct
31
My MacBook Pro
“Last update: 2011-12-13 Raam's MacBook Pro Specifications Operating System Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Motherboard and CPU 2.4GHz Intel Core ...”
30
Van Helsing's Curse - Oculus Infernum
“If you're going to listen to even one Halloween album this year, this has to ...”
29
Upgraded to WordPress 2.3 - Growing Pains
“I generally like to wait awhile before upgrading things, especially since most bugs (serious or ...”
27
Fresh Pond Apartments
“ Nice looking brick buildings, but apparently they have very bad management.”
26
A Colorful Autumn
“ Perhaps it's just because I drive more between Boston and NH now that I'm living ...”
25
Web hosting is not for everyone
“ As you may know, I run my own web hosting business called Akmai.net Web ...”
24
SongBird: A formidable replacement for iTunes?
“I've been looking for something to replace iTunes as the main library for my 20,000+ ...”
Sunset Over Pawtucket Falls Bridge
“ This is the bridge crossing the Merrimack River at Pawtucket Falls in Lowell, MA. If ...”
23
Sunlight Stars
“ These tiny white sparkling dots are actually little bugs flying around the top of the ...”
Bringing Nature Inside the Truck
“ Whenever I open my rear cab window, leaves from the truck bed fly into the ...”
22
Should I Run in Polluted City Atmosphere?
“I've been living in the city (Cambridge, MA) for almost a whole year now and ...”
19
So Tired
“Only 3.5 hours of sleep -- I didn't get to sleep until 7:30am this morning ...”
18
Rejecting Limitations
“Its always been difficult to set aside any great amount of time to learn a ...”
17
Boycotting Comcast
“This post started as a draft, sitting among 33 other drafts for a couple of ...”
16
Coding to Classical Music
“I have gained a sudden interest in classical music! It's strange because classical music is ...”
15
slGrid: Edit Mode without Add or Delete
“I've been customizing slGrid for an application I'm developing at work. One of the things ...”
13
But I never looked at the sun...
“You know how when you look at the sun, or another bright light source, and ...”
Brrrr... cold!
“Last night I took out the fans and closed my windows for the first time ...”
11
Installing the Eclipse SQL Explorer Plugin on Mac OS X
“There is a great plugin for Eclipse called SQL Explorer, which "is a thin SQL ...”
10
Sanitize your Database Input!
“I don't like posting comics, but today's xkcd really hit home. As a web developer, ...”
09
SSH Client Keys
“SSH Client Keys allow you to quickly login to a remote server via SSH without ...”
08
Reversing WordPress Comments Order
“After creating the Comment History page, I realized the Recent Comments Plugin was listing the ...”
07
Comment History with Get Recent Comments Plugin
“My Dad and I have been going back and forth quite a bit in the ...”
06
Using wget to run a PHP script
“wget is usually used to download a file or web page via HTTP, so by ...”
05
Volunteer computing with BOINC
“If you have heard of SETI@home, you'll probably have an idea of how volunteer computing ...”
03
MySQL Query for Free Time
“ SELECT * FROM life WHERE free_time > 0; MySQL returned 1 row(s). (Query used the ...”
02
Recursively Renaming Files - The One Liner
“A couple of months ago I wrote about a solution to recursively rename multiple files ...”
01
How I started programming
“I learned about programming when I was 12, three years after I began building computers. ...”
Sep
30
Consumption
“Humans require very little to survive and be happy, yet we consume so much. What ...”
28
The good in others
“Believe in the good that exists in all human beings. Never assume you know the ...”
26
CORBAWeb Blog
“I setup a blog for CORBAWeb, the new name for my web hosting business. I ...”
25
A new look for the FileZilla project
“I'm not sure how long ago this happened, but the FileZilla project has a new ...”
24
Moving a CVS 1.12 repository to CVS 1.11
“Over the weekend I moved my entire CVS repository from my home server to a ...”
Another personal best Windows uptime
“This screenshot was taken from my office computer, which is running Windows XP SP2 and ...”
21
Learning not to become discouraged
“Over the past few days I have been really enthused by the prospect of making ...”
20
Atrophy
“I wish I was sweating, thighs aching, looking up a trail not knowing how much ...”
19
phpBB photo-captcha image loading issues
“A friend was having trouble with the photo-captcha mod he installed in phpBB. The photo-captcha ...”
Mount Osceola
“ Mount Osceola (4,340'), named after an Indian war chief of the Seminole Indians in Florida ...”
18
More deadlines
“I had another feature on Aerva's Support Center that I was supposed to finish by ...”
15
Upper Greely Pond
“ This hike was part of the three days of hiking I completed this past Labor ...”
12
NoteSake.com beat me to the punchline
“For the past two years or so, I've been slowly working on a website called ...”
11
Mount Hancock (North and South Peaks)
“ Mount Hancock (4,420') was once one of the most inaccessible mountains in the White Mountains. ...”
10
Deadlines
“Sorry for the very slow updates. I've had several deadlines at work that I've been ...”
05
Little Haystack via Falling Waters Trail
“ Little Haystack (4,840') is a part of the Franconia Range in the White Mountains of ...”
Comcast is forging your data!
“So apparently, not only is Comcast throttling BitTorrent traffic (as I proved with a little ...”
04
Labor Day Weekend
“I had a good Labor Day Weekend. I went up North to the White Mountains ...”
01
Making more than 50,000 percent profit from JUNK
“A few weeks ago on Tuesday, the day before trash day, I saw someone put ...”
Aug
31
What should I do?
“I haven't explained what's been happening with my properties over the past few months, mostly ...”
30
Technical Support Patience
“Why do people send a support email asking a question and then 10 minutes later ...”
29
Red Lentil Dhal
“I made some red lentil dhal yesterday, following this recipe from the Vegan Recipe Database. ...”
28
25
Sold my Audi A4
“I bought the car back in November of 2006 and almost exactly six months later, ...”
24
Machines providing bad service
“I'm three months behind on mortgage payments to IndyMac Bank. It's not that I'm intentionally ...”
23
Visual proof Comcast throttles my cable connection!
“I saw an article on Digg today about how Comcast is denying rumors that they ...”
22
Forbearance Letter
“This is the letter I wrote to Wilshire Credit Corporation's Forbearance Department, regarding my mortgage ...”
21
Bou Wedding Pictures Parody
“ I did a parody of Meera & Thea's wedding using the pictures the photographer released ...”
18
The human element of directing traffic. Sucks.
“I have nothing against police officers. In fact, I applaud them for their service to ...”
17
Flush the Damn Urinal
“Why do people use the damn urinal without flushing it? I mean seriously, I don't ...”
16
Fun with Photo Booth Effects
“ I discovered I could make some pretty funny pictures using the iSight camera on my ...”
15
14
Tired, Pullups, and Scrambled Tofu
“I don't know if its a problem with my diet, not getting enough sleep, too ...”
12
Another leaky Saturday
“I received a call Saturday morning, three calls actually, while I was in the shower. ...”
09
I'm still adjusting... but is that bad?
“ There are a lot of things to like about my new apartment: I get plenty ...”
08
Man vs Wild and Survivorman
“I wrote this in response to a post in a forum about how Man vs ...”
07
Cambridge Apartment Pictures - Part II
“ As promised, I have uploaded a new gallery containing pictures of my new apartment. This ...”
06
Moved into new apartment
“I'm all moved into my new apartment on the second floor of the same building ...”
03
Making iTerm and naim play nicely
“I've started using iTerm as my terminal client on Mac OS X. Previously, I was ...”
02
Minneapolis bridge collapse pictures
“ I'm sure by now you must have heard about the bridge collapse in Minneapolis. A ...”
01
1369 Coffee House
“I never thought the temporary closing of Starbucks near my office would be such a ...”
Jul
30
Another wet basement weekend
“I didn't post much this past weekend because on Friday morning at 7am I got ...”
29
26
Bike stolen, for real this time
“I walked outside this morning and the place where I parked my $600 Specialized RockHopper ...”
25
Bush hid the facts
“ If you're running Windows XP, give it a try (make sure you leave out the ...”
24
Flesh Wound
“ Sunday evening, on my way back to Cambridge, I filled the tires on my mountain ...”
22
Sprint Commercial
“ I can't get this song, and commercial, out of my head. I finally found the ...”
21
Software Project Requirements
“ When it comes down to defining a exactly what a piece of software needs to ...”
20
ImgListGenerator
“Introduction I've been doing a lot of eBay auctions lately and one of the most time ...”
19
PC vs Mac
“Here is a very funny video Thea sent me the link to. It definitely describes ...”
18
Dirty Air
“The air quality in Cambridge (MA) doesn't even compare to that in Pelham (NH). I ...”
16
$250,000 a month blogging?!
“Yup, its true. Some people actually make that much blogging. Check out this Business Week ...”
14
rdesktop running inside X11
“I've been using the Remote Desktop Connection for Mac from Microsoft to connect to my ...”
13
Keeping things different
“ I got so sick of sitting down to use my computer. This actually works pretty ...”
12
Thermogenics are Evil
“Don't take a thermogenic on an empty stomach and then go without food for an ...”
11
Repetitive Immobility is Killing Me!
“I've been stuck in what feels like a rut, an endless loop of procrastination, confusion, ...”
10
Installed reCAPTCHA Plugin
“SecureImage is nice, but the problem is that SecureImage doesn't work well with wp-cache, the ...”
Installed SecureImage Plugin
“A few months ago I installed the Challenge plugin, which presents a math question for ...”
09
A few new photos
“Before I sold my Thinkpad T41 to Aerva I took some photos of it for ...”
06
Washing Machine Dies
“Last night I put clothes in the washing machine, added soap, put $1.25 in the ...”
05
Contemplating switching apartments
“I've been thinking about switching apartments. I can get an apartment that is twice the ...”
04
Fighting
“I was quite sick most of today. I woke up with a bad headache, which ...”
03
Replace OS X Command+Tab with Witch
“Mac OS X has a very limited application switcher built-in, so limited in fact that ...”
02
A geeky murder mystery
“David sent me the URL to an interview with Hans Reiser, the creator of the ...”
01
Stolen Chairs
“This weekend I discovered that someone walked into my fenced off back yard and stole ...”
Jun
29
Blueberries
“ These are huge blueberries. An excellent source of antioxidants. Usually they're expensive, > $4.50, but ...”
28
Personal Blurb
“I had to write a quick personal blurb for work today. I figured I would ...”
27
Sold my Thinkpad T41
“So it looks like I'll be getting a MacBook Pro, partially paid for by my ...”
26
Need Money. Must Sell Car.
“So I've dropped the price on my Audi by $700, to $4800. I didn't want ...”
24
Lots of driving!
“ David and I will have done over 1,300 miles of driving by the time we ...”
22
Recovering from power outages with a Linux Mac Mini
“My Debian GNU/Linux server Pluto, which is located in my apartment in Cambridge, is running ...”
21
Pennsylvania Road Trip
“I'll be leaving for Pennsylvania tonight at 3AM with two of my co-workers. We'll be ...”
20
Exploding Manhole
“As I was walking home today, I noticed a crew working near a manhole in ...”
19
39 Ways to Live, and Not Merely Exist
“I came across a really cool article on Digg today called 39 Ways to Live, ...”
18
Listed Audi A4 on AutoTrader
“I haven't had much luck with selling my car through CraigsList, so I've decided to ...”
15
Do not disable browser.cache.memory.enable!
“A few weeks ago I wrote about my Firefox tweaks. One of those tweaks is ...”
14
Highlight Video of Meera and Thea's Wedding
“Here is the highlight video of Meera and Thea's wedding: Luis and Chris did a great ...”
12
Recycling the recycled
“Earlier today, I needed to ship a couple of items I sold on eBay. I ...”
11
Headaches
“If there is one pain that clearly signals something is wrong, it's a headache. I ...”
09
mutt folderfilter errors
“I've been slowly setting up mutt, along with offlineimap and fetchmail, to replace Thunderbird as ...”
08
Recovering from CTRL+S in Putty
“Every once in awhile, I'll press CTRL+S by accident while I'm inside a terminal window. ...”
05
Putty Tray
“I've switched from using the basic Putty to using a customized version called Putty Tray. ...”
04
Unsure
“I've never been more unsure about what I want out of life than I do ...”
03
Thea & Meera's Wedding Reception
“ Wedding reception pictures are up. You can see the gallery here. I didn't bother filtering ...”
01
Thea & Meera's Wedding
“ My sister Meera was married today, to Thea Bou. It was a long day, with ...”
May
31
Listed 1998 Audi A4 for Sale
“Almost exactly 6 months ago, I purchased a 1998 Audi A4 from my friend Tom. ...”
30
My Firefox Tweaks
“Ever since I started using Firefox I've been discovering new and awesome ways it can ...”
29
Adblock Firefox Extension (and Blocking SourceForge.net Ad's)
“They finally got to me, the ad's did. I was viewing my SourceForge.net account and ...”
28
Less is More
“I spent Saturday and Sunday working at my parents house, doing yard work and helping ...”
24
Three excellent quotes I read today
“Look for what you do well, and excel. The secret to excelling? Stop trying so damn ...”
23
MIT HawkCam
“My friend Sarith linked me to a really cool webcam at MIT called HawkCam. It's ...”
21
Google Calendar in Thunderbird
“I came across a really cool solution for viewing your Google Calendar from within Mozilla ...”
20
Finding the Synergy Between Control and Chaos
“For Thea's (my future brother-in-law) bachelor party, we went to F1 in Boston. F1 is ...”
19
Sticking with what we know
“I came across a great article about why people really don't switch to Linux. The ...”
17
Incredible Weather
“Yesterday there was a tornado watch for the Northeastern New England area, including warnings of ...”
16
Free Cork Board
“I've been wanting to buy a cork board to pin up important papers and bills ...”
15
Cumberland RD Studio Rented
“A few weeks ago I listed two of my vacant rental units on CraigsList. One ...”
14
The final addition to my home gym
“As I mentioned in my apartment home gym post a few weeks ago, the only ...”
12
New music video released by Javelin Records
“A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about a music video my friend Sarith ...”
11
Kill Inactive and Idle Linux Users
“Every once in awhile the SSH connection to my Linux server will die and I'll ...”
10
Spring
“ Warm breeze, Sweet smell of blooming flowers, Birds chirping, Warm sun, Clear blue roof, Random pairs of white, soaring ...”
09
Here’s what my portfolio could like - Part 2
“A few days ago, two to be exact, I posted what my portfolio would look ...”
08
Erasing a Disk Using Linux
“Here is a really quick way to erase a disk in Linux. Maybe "erase" is ...”
07
Here's what my portfolio could like
“Here are the stocks I owned a little less than a year ago. I sold ...”
04
I Would Donate to Support Digg
“As many may already be aware, Digg was recently the site of, what will probably ...”
03
Firefox Extension: Window Resizer
“I found a really useful extension for Firefox: Window Resizer. If you do any kind ...”
02
See how I've changed in the past 6 years (Picture)
“I was browsing through my images directory and I found a picture I made ...”
01
Internet Explorer "Remember my password" Checkbox Missing
“On my office laptop, I discovered the Internet Explorer "Remember my password" checkbox option was ...”
Apr
30
April Camping Trip
“ I went camping in the white mountains over the weekend. My dad and I drove ...”
29
Linux Power on Windows Machines
“The other day I needed to update a bunch of links inside several files for ...”
28
Recursively Renaming Multiple Files
“I needed to rename a bunch of files for a customer at work the other ...”
27
Using rsync to Mirror two CVS Repositories
“I have two personal Linux servers, named Mercury (located in Lowell, MA) and Pluto (located ...”
26
All-Zyme Double Strength by Rainbow Light
“While I was working on computers at LifeAlive Tuesday night, I mentioned to Heidi (the ...”
25
My Apartment Home Gym
“When I moved to Cambridge in back January, I decided to get a gym membership ...”
23
Minor Thunderbird Change Reduces my Productivity!
“It's quite annoying when a new version of software is released and the programmers modify ...”
21
Open(Anything) - The way of future products?
“So I was reading Digg the other day and I came across a link to ...”
20
pathping: A Faster Trace Utility than tracert
“Last week I was testing network connectivity with another engineer and he used pathping instead ...”
19
Thunderbird 2.0 Released
“Yesterday, while in the office composing an email, I noticed Thunderbird wasn't automatically underlining misspelled ...”
18
The Ultimate Star Wars Personality Test
“So just for the hell of it, I took The Ultimate Star Wars Personality Test. ...”
17
Installing Apache 1.3 on Debian Etch
“I few days ago I setup a new Linux box to use for testing my ...”
15
Easily Replace all Occurrences of a String in Multiple Files Using Linux
“This came in handy when I needed to change the IP address used in several ...”
12
Completed: 16.6% of my Life
“If theres anything I've learned the older I've become, its to never claim to know ...”
11
Vegan's get Plenty of Calories!
“These are pictures from my FitDay account. I decided to start keeping track of everything ...”
10
Truck Towed due to Street Cleaning
“OK, I can read signs just fine. The sign said "Street Cleaning - Second Wednesday ...”
09
Time to Burn the Fat
“I know I've been saying this for weeks, but tomorrow I'm going to start counting ...”
07
Added New Archived Posts
“I found a bunch of posts, nine months worth actually, and added them to the ...”
05
Mountains Created by the Rain
“I found a couple of pictures, taken back in 2005, of awesome tiny mountain formations ...”
04
Vacant Cumberland RD Units Listed on Craigslist
“I've listed both of my remaining vacant units on Craigslist. This is the first time ...”
03
The Business Trip to Pittsburgh, PA
“The trip went well, except for a few minor delays. Our plane in Boston was ...”
02
Weekend Recap
“As usual, the weekend didn't go as planned. Something came up Friday night and I ...”
Mar
30
It's going to be a long weekend
“Today I have a dentist appointment at 4:20pm, then I have to go buy the ...”
28
Upgraded WordPress
“Well, I took the plunge and upgraded my WordPress installation from 2.0.1 to version 2.1.2. ...”
27
The Echo of a Alternative Path
“I realized today, while watching a clip from the war in Iraq, that the past ...”
26
Time to Start Counting Calories!
“I really need to start counting calories. I feel that even though I am eating ...”
25
The Start of Two New Habits: Reading and Rowing
“This week I'm going to start two new habits: reading and rowing. That's right, I'm ...”
24
How to make drinking water a lot easier
“Last year, I wrote a lengthly post about why its so necessary to drink more ...”
23
A Healthy Week
“Well this week has seen a couple of interesting changes. On Sunday, I went food ...”
21
The Model M Keyboard
“ I bought a couple of Model M keyboards on eBay a few years ago, however ...”
20
Vegan Fitness Forum
“I've been reading stuff on the Vegan Fitness forum lately. I found it somewhere in ...”
19
Welcome new life to my desk
“ I realized how much I love the outdoors, and more specifically the rainforest. Breathing in ...”
18
Fruits and Veggies for a Week
“ I went food shopping today, at Whole Foods. It's not the cheapest place to shop, ...”
17
Nor'easter Causes Endless Boston Traffic
“It was 70 degrees on Wednesday, only four days ago. What happens on Friday? We ...”
16
Replaced the View Source Editor for my Browsers
“Up until now, on my PC, Internet Explorer and Firefox have had different "View Source" ...”
15
A Late DST Update for Windows 2000 Server
“I forgot to update the Windows 2000 server running at a business in Lowell, which ...”
14
Comcast/Level3 hit by minor DOS attack?
“When I came home from the gym last night, I tried accessing Google, however it ...”
13
Alone with the Wind
“As I drove home from the gym last night at 2:15am, after the longest, most ...”
12
Pouring the foundation
“This warm weather is a relief from the bitterly cold temperatures we've had the past ...”
11
Replaced Akismet plugin with Challenge 1.1
“I'm sick of scanning through the list of comments caught by Akismet to see if ...”
10
Update your Linux PCs to Support the new DST
“For most Linux systems, checking for support of the new DST is as easy as ...”
09
Cambridge apartment hit by broken water pipe
“ Sigh. I don't know if I should even bother explaining. I'm just happy I was working ...”
08
The Ice Gods are Angry
“At 11am yesterday morning, I received a call from one of the tenants at my ...”
07
Changing the default group for a Linux user
“I have a couple of bash and PHP scripts I created to checkout a local ...”
06
"Hey, I'm from Portsmouth, NH. My truck broke down and.."
“I had to go back to Lowell today for an appointment and while I was ...”
05
Five Online Accounts Secured with Two-Factor Authentication
“ I received my Paypal Security Key in the mail today. I jumped at the chance ...”
04
Don't throw away those DVDs!
“My sisters' new house had a lot of junk inside when they moved in, including ...”
02
Calendars.com Shipping Screw Up
“A few weeks ago I ordered something from calendars.com and had it shipped to my ...”
01
8th Floor Abnormalities
“The office where I work is located on the 8th floor of a 13 story ...”
Feb
27
The Impersonalization of Blogs
“Have you ever wondered why my blog was not more personal? I came across an ...”
24
HOW-TO: Easily Secure any Wireless Connection with SSH
“For a long time I had been running a Squid proxy on my Linux server, ...”
21
I have clearance
“And 4WD... I'm the only one I've seen park in this spot since we had the ...”
20
My Naked Body and Money
“We all need it. Some of us need more than others because we refuse to ...”
19
Icy roads have their advantages
“You would think having 4" - 15" of solid ice in the roads would be ...”
18
Don't piss on my floor
“I was asked a few weeks ago, by one of my tenants, to rent the ...”
16
Removing unwanted commas in a CSV file with PHP
“During the past week, I've been working on a small PHP application that a friend ...”
14
Show me the errors!
“It took me forever to figure out why the hell including a specific class file ...”
09
Life is Short
“This past Tuesday I started going to the gym again. I have a membership at ...”
08
Green Tea Cup
“ Green tea (my 10th cup today), in the green Japanese tea cup David gave to ...”
07
Hiroshima
“ There is nothing that makes me feel more grateful for life than seeing pictures from ...”
02
Let the junk selling begin
“I've finally taken the initiative to photograph and sell things on eBay that I am ...”
01
February
“Does anyone else have a problem spelling February? I've always pronounced it like I pronounce ...”
Jan
31
Two down, two to go
“I got a gym membership at Golds Gym, about a 10 minute drive from my ...”
22
Posiden, have mercy!
“The past few days have been quite eventful -- so much so that I haven't ...”
16
Motivational Fitness & Health Advice
“I found something I had written for a friend a few months ago (last October, ...”
15
Lowell Khmer Music Video
“Check out this music video my friend Sarith created with his friends about a year ...”
10
Why I'm a Vegetarian
“ Vegetarianism.”
08
Comcast Cable Internet
“Well, I take back anything bad I've ever said about Cable Internet. I've always been ...”
04
OfficeMax gets away with typographical pricing error
“On New Years Eve, I was browsing digg and pressing refresh on the main page. ...”
03
Cambridge Apartment Pictures
“I've added a new gallery containing pictures of my new apartment on 34 Chatham ST ...”
Sony Ericsson GC89 Network Card & T-Mobile GPRS
“Now that I have a new apartment in Cambridge, I obviously need Internet access. I ...”
01
New Years Resolutions - 2007
“This years resolutions, in order of importance: Fix my financial position (get my rental properties streamlined ...”
2006
“Switched Blog to WordPress; Hired as a Software Developer at Aerva; Built 16x16' Shed from Scratch; Renovated 100-Year-Old Basement”
Dec
31
Year in Review - 2006
“This year, as previous years, has passed by faster than ever. My web hosting business, ...”
25
Found an apartment!
“Last week I looked at several apartments in Cambridge -- I would say between 10 ...”
19
The move is coming!
“Finally, I'm feeling a little better and I can tell the cold is going away. ...”
13
Narrowly escaped a four car pile-up
“Tuesday -- still feeling sick. On my way home from Cambridge, while I was sitting ...”
12
Work myself to sickness
“Well the past few days have been interesting enough to finally set aside 20 minutes ...”
11
Why I won't install IE7
“IE7 needs Service Pack 2. Service Pack 2 does horrible things to a computer. For example, ...”
08
Link Action plugin for slGrid
“There was recently a plugin system added to slGrid, which is great because I recently ...”
07
slGrid, Ajax-Based PHP Grid Component
“I found an absolutely awesome application called slGrid. It was recently bought by Senza Limiti, ...”
06
A Dirty Job
“Well yesterday the main drain pipe in my Bowers street property clogged and caused the ...”
05
Bowers Street Main Stack Clogged
“The third floor tenant in my Bowers street property called me while I was at ...”
Nov
28
Started running again
“I had a good workout tonight. I felt energized as ever, which I'm crediting to ...”
26
1998 Audi A4 Quattro
“ 1998 Audi A4 Quattro AWD 2.8L V6, 5-speed manual transmission Fully Loaded (Bose sound system, etc) 170k miles New ...”
22
Promoted to Lead Support Engineer
“I don't know if you'd call it a promotion or simply an additional title in ...”
21
Truck hits 150,000 miles
“A few days ago my truck hit the 150,000 mile mark while I was on ...”
19
The plane and the conveyor belt
“This popular physics question was posted on the tao-gamers.com forum I frequently visit: A plane is ...”
15
Project Magnolia
“As I mentioned a few days ago, Thea and I are starting a new project ...”
14
Moving Earth
“On my way into work this morning, while stopped at a red light in Cambridge, ...”
10
Ware Street Health Department Notice
“A few weeks ago, approximately one week after I evicted the tenants from the first ...”
08
A sore body and a new collaboration
“I am incredibly sore from Monday and Tuesdays workouts. Ravi wanted to do arms on ...”
07
Internet Archaeology
“So today I went to show my apartments to a prospective tenant. The appointment was ...”
06
Automation
“Today I wrote a bunch of documentation for Wholesale Floral Corp, using the DokuWiki I ...”
05
Send2Fax
“For the past year or so, I've had a Verizon landline number which I used ...”
01
Bodybuilding on a Vegan Diet
“It's been about six weeks since I last worked out regularly. I have no excuses. ...”
Oct
27
Rebates and PO Boxes
“I'm sure everyone has filled out rebates. You've probably also had an experience where you ...”
26
Firefox 2.0 & The Linux Backspace Key
“Firefox 2.0 was released on Tuesday and if you haven't already downloaded it, I highly ...”
25
SimplrRaam - Modified Simplr Theme
“As you can see, I am now using a modified version of the Wordpress Simplr ...”
24
Will any science fiction remain fiction forever?
“I came across a news article talking about how scientists are finding ways to cloak ...”
20
Cannot Register for an ADC account with an Apple email address?!
“I visited Apple's developer website to download Xcode, the Apple Developers package that includes all ...”
19
Cell, Landline, and VOIP Number Portability
“Below, I will explain how I did what I was told was impossible: Port a ...”
18
Apache Error: Permission denied for /images/
“I was trying to test a project I'm working on using my local Apache web ...”
17
Cumberland RD Update
“Here are a few pictures of the on-going work of the Cumberland RD unit, which ...”
15
Bay State Marathon Traffic
“Did anyone else get stuck in this? I left home around noon time to grab ...”
13
A Free Mac Mini and Bad 3rd Party Memory
“ I now have two Mac mini's sitting on my desk. David (at Aerva) gave me ...”
12
Follow the Keychain & Convert .dmg to .iso
“Last night on the way home from Aerva, at around 6:20pm, I spent 1 hour ...”
11
Windows and OSX Folder Replacement: Different!
“In Windows, when drag and drop a folder into another folder that contains a folder ...”
10
North Korea's Nuclear Test
“I believe North Korea's actions can be explained and I understand where they're coming from. The ...”
06
PHP & MSSQL Difficulties
“I managed to finish a couple of small programming tasks this week that have been ...”
05
The MacBookPro is growing on me
“I've recently fallen in love with feel and stability of Apples MacOSX operating system. I ...”
04
.Mac and WebDAV
“Last night I decided to register for a .Mac account to use with my Mac ...”
03
Monarch Butterflies
“I've been seeing a lot of Monarch Butterflies outside my office window. That wouldn't be ...”
Sep
30
Having Fun with SQL (not)
“I was up until 6:00am yesterday morning working on a project for Aerva. I wrote ...”
27
53 Ware Street Eviction Evidence
“This morning I met with the Lowell building inspector, Mr. St. Hiliare. He emphasized that ...”
Google Error
“Yesterday, a lot of Comcast users experienced a DNS outage, or at least that's what ...”
26
Second eviction in the works
“I received a call from the Lowell building inspector, Mr. St. Hilaire. He told me ...”
25
The Nine Month Eviction
“After 9 months, George Demasse has finally been evicted. He owes me over $15,000, of ...”
23
The Uneducated Computer User
“Viruses and worms are HEALTHY for the world. Sure, the nasty ones are bad, but ...”
22
Water in the Palm of your Hand
“Take a deep breath. Go ahead, do it right now. Doesn't that feel good? Breathing ...”
21
New Theme Installed
“As you may have noticed, I installed a new theme for my blog. What do ...”
The Way I See It #165
“I was ahead in the slalom. But in the second run, everyone fell on a ...”
20
HOWTO: Change home directory for a virtual FTP user on a server running pure-ftpd
“I run CPanel on my web server and I recently needed to add an FTP ...”
19
HTML_QuickForm - Setting the advcheckbox Checked Value
“I must have spent an hour looking for a solution to this problem. Hopefully this ...”
18
Adding Power and Lights to my Shed
“I needed light in my shed and the only way I would be satisfied was ...”
September Camping Trip
“I had planned to spend all day Saturday mountain biking, however when I missed my ...”
14
The MBTA's new ticketing system; useful or useless?
“Three days a week I take the train from Lowell to Boston and then ride ...”
13
Hopefully just the serpentine belt
“I've long known (6 months+) that my truck has a transmission problem. When the transmission ...”
12
Dizzy Spells – Viral Labyrinthitis?
“A few weeks ago I experienced a sudden dizzy spell, which was so intense it ...”
10
A day of Chess
“Yesterday was a nice day so we decided to play some chess. I setup my ...”
07
Vast sources of knowledge
“I've often posted about how the Internet is changing the way knowledge is conveyed, and ...”
06
Changing the Windows clock to display military time
“I like to use military time wherever possible. Looking at the clock on my Windows ...”
05
Ready to Indulge?
“Do you feel guilty? You should! Are you too weak to stop yourself? Or do ...”
04
Labor Day Weekend
“Sunday evening, after watching Crank (Jason Statham), we stopped at Hannaford's in Tewksbury to buy ...”
03
Wang Laboratories
“When I was very young, my dad worked at a place called Wang Laboratories, as ...”
02
Island of the Dead
“Hart Island in the Long Island Sound, New York, where over 700,000 burials have taken ...”
01
Large E-Mail Attachments
“I click the "Send and Receive" button on my email client and expect it pause ...”
Aug
31
How different are we?
“It's amazing how you can tell the subtle differences between people from different regions of ...”
29
Promoted to Software Engineer at Aerva!
“This Friday will mark my 5th month working at Aerva. It's amazing that much time ...”
Delayed once again!
“Two weeks ago, I took a week off from my workout regiment to let my ...”
28
August Camping Trip #2
“Friday night we stayed at a hotel in Waterville Valley. I had lots of work ...”
25
22
Why?
“Everyday I ask that question and I never come up with an answer. I'm sure ...”
21
The Way I See It #141
“"I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and ...”
August Camping Trip
“This is just a place holder. Read here for the info on the camping trip.”
Pain, Pain, Go Away
“On Saturday I was throwing a ball with my brother, and when I woke up ...”
16
Why technology hasn't killed the newspaper
“News today is not much different than news 100 years ago, however the methods and ...”
15
Another two weeks of rent free living
“My lawyer called me today in reference to George Demasse, the tenant that has not ...”
A missing procedure for DNS changes
“If you noticed the error message on my blog during the past few hours, you ...”
13
House Hacking
“Hacking your own house can be pretty fun. I don't want to incriminate myself on ...”
10
In retrospect, it really isn't that important
“As a runner up to my previous post, From Bad to Worse, I must say ...”
From Bad to Worse
“ Yesterday I received a call from one of my tenants who told me the ...”
08
Life is an Aftertaste
“Life is an aftertaste. Drink up and wait for it...”
07
Deadly Food
“What would happen if the makers of popular cleaning chemicals modified their products in such ...”
02
Life's Melons
“The day started off wrong; I woke up at 10:30am instead of the 7:00am I ...”
01
A Paper Solution to an Electronic Problem
“I started to get a sore throat during the day on Sunday and by Monday ...”
Jul
28
Foreign Substance
“I had the opportunity to have some ice cream tonight, and since I haven't had ...”
The Magic Door Detector
“Akmai.net, my web hosting company, has picked up another customer (thanks Tom!), bringing the total ...”
27
Thirty seconds to spare
“A picture of the guys I work with at Aerva. From left to right: me, Rafael, ...”
25
Where's the future? Oh, that's where...
“I was sitting outside in my backyard yesterday and I saw some nice cloud formations, ...”
23
A Plan to See the World
“I've always wanted to travel, to see the world and explore the places I've never ...”
22
A Free Bookcase
“When one of my tenants moved out, they left behind a nice big wooden bookcase. ...”
19
The Swarm
“Wow, the days are just flying by. I've been really busy working on a programming ...”
18
Eclipse
“After spending so much time customizing my vim and GVIM programming environment, I finally decided ...”
15
Bugs are in my Stomach!
“Some useful things I learned the past few days: Want to disable the annoying Linux console ...”
12
Keep the End Out of Sight
“Does knowledge of the end make everything easier? Does our understanding and acceptance that we're ...”
11
Tripin'
“Sunday evening I had planned out my entire day for Monday. I had my schedule ...”
10
Thoughts on a New Cell Phone
“I've been trying to decide whether I should buy a new phone. My Nextel Blackberry ...”
09
Yard Work
“I spent the afternoon working in my backyard. I finally got around to removing the ...”
Timeless Living
“Does our concept and understanding of time make us old? We already know that strong ...”
Workout Routine for July 2006
“The workouts are done in pairs as alternating sets, with a 30 second rest after ...”
08
Genuine Junk
“It's rather easy to overcome the urge to keep junk. However it's very difficult to ...”
06
$250 an Hour!?
“Theres nothin' quite like waking up to a chilly morning and being unable to take ...”
05
Day Dreaming
“My morning workouts are going well. I'm still struggling to get everything done earlier in ...”
Build a Strong Foundation for your Body
“Most bodybuilders that you see will have a big strong upper body, but a smaller, ...”
04
Fourth of July
“To save myself from reinventing the wheel, here's pretty much everything that happen for my ...”
03
An Oceanic Day and the Damn Sunburn
“Sitha and I went to the beach today and we were actually able to find ...”
New Pictures
“New muscle pictures here. And a few pictures I took of Debian discovering himself in a ...”
01
A Productive Week
“Yesterday I only had 4 hours of sleep because I was up until 4:30am working ...”
Jun
30
The Observer
“Yesterday, I was driving home from work in Boston to my parents house in New ...”
29
Die Habit, Die!
“I found my cat playing with a mouse this morning. The mouse wasn't dead, but ...”
27
Would You Kill Your Mother?
“Iran won't give up its right to use nuclear technology. I don't blame them. What ...”
A Schedule Shift
“I received a call today while at work. I usually don't answer my phone, so ...”
26
Whortle Berry Hill
“I stepped outside yesterday to find the sun shining (I live in a basement, after ...”
25
New Muscle Gallery Added
“I added a new gallery of pictures I took back in March of this year. I'll ...”
24
Stuff Reduction in Progress
“Today, while waiting for laundry to finish (I haven't bought and installed a washer/dryer in ...”
23
Follow Your Intuition
“A few days ago I was contemplating buying a charger for my Nikon D50. I ...”
22
A Chance to Save $1850
“Lisa, the person living upstairs, approached me tonight when I arrived home. She told me ...”
21
Postponed Trip to Florida
“I spent most of today, the first day of summer, inside looking at the blue ...”
20
Appreciation
“Can work make us feel happier? I don't mean in the literal sense of being ...”
19
Think One Dollar
“I sold my entire portfolio today. I wasn't going to, but after learning two tenants ...”
More Stuff, Less Peace
“I was reading comments by a user on Slashdot and he was talking about how ...”
18
Financial Fury
“This heat is awesome. It was 100 degrees, if not higher, all day today. Before ...”
17
Bookmark Sync and Sort
“I often bookmark websites when I come across something I think I might want to ...”
New Work Hours at Aerva
“Starting next week I'll be working at Aerva three days a week; Tuesday, Wednesday, and ...”
13
A Lonely Cloud
“I spent all day, a sunny day no doubt, staring at a beautiful blue sky ...”
11
Stolen Bike Recovered
“Uh, well, it wasn't exactly stolen in the first place, but it has been recovered. ...”
Your World is Never Safe
“I went for a bike ride today, came back home, put my bike in the ...”
09
Sore II
“I'm still very sore, maybe even more sore, from my workouts this week. I can ...”
08
I feel like SHOUTING
“I setup a SHOUTcast music server at home today, so that I could stream my ...”
07
I won't let Microsoft win!
“Well tonight I decided to take a leap and actually upgrade my Windows XP system ...”
06
Sore
“I started a new workout regiment yesterday, a four day split: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and ...”
Scars
“A man without scars has not lived his life to the fullest.”
05
Watching Death
“I was riding in my truck today, on a two lane road with another car ...”
04
Beat to a Pulp
“The sun started to peek through the clouds today so I rushed out to catch ...”
Gallery Moved
“After some speed testing (thanks Phonexay), I came to the conclusion that hosting the gallery ...”
03
New Gallery Section
“As an aspiring amateur photographer, I've always found it difficult to display and make available ...”
Learn your *nix permissions!
“I spent so many hours trying to figure out how to give Apache access to ...”
02
The only one
“Ahhh, nothing like a nice 45 minute bike ride through a quiet national forest on ...”
01
Amazing Weather, Amazing Nature, Horrible Milk, Great Keyboard
“Today I went to my parents’ house after working 8 hours on a programming project ...”
May
27
DSL Back Up
“After four days of being down, my DSL is working again. Verizon was supposed to ...”
25
Big truck rips phone line off telephone pole
“Yesterday a big truck drove by and ripped the phone line connected to my house ...”
22
May Camping Trip
“This will be short. The camping trip was nice. I went alone this time. It ...”
18
Life is an adventure
“I've always been one of those people who say "I'll believe it when I see ...”
17
Blue Skies
“I was awoken this morning by a phone call from one of my tenants. There ...”
Brief Synergy Review
“I have three LCD monitor's on my desk. It was getting pretty crowded having two ...”
15
2006 Lowell Flood
“The first couple of pictures were taken yesterday. You can see the same area today ...”
14
The never ending rain - State of Emergency declared
“Watching the local news on TV this morning, I learn that the governor of Massachusetts ...”
13
A smelly morning
“I woke up this morning and for some strange reason, decided to brush my teeth ...”
11
Don't use Wireless-G!
“First a short history of wireless technologies: The wireless technology standard is known as 802.11 with ...”
09
My Text Editor of Choice
“First a little history: I first started programming using the MS-DOS Edit program while programming QBasic ...”
08
Apartment Finally Rented
“Well, the three bedroom apartment I've been trying to rent on Bowers ST for the ...”
05
Overwhelming Organizing
“Don’t let things get to the stage where you need to catch up. The more ...”
04
HOWTO: Email Forwarding with Procmail using formail
“Introduction This was something I needed to do for Aerva and I spent quite awhile on ...”
03
Speaking of backups...
“Wow, that was close. I checked my blog this morning and for some reason everything ...”
02
The melody of life
“I have had music in my life for as long as I can remember. My ...”
01
Crackling sound in my ears
“For the past few days I've noticed a crackling sound in my left ear. It ...”
Midnight Crisis
“Well I awoke last night to the sound of someone pounding on my door. I ...”
Apr
30
Weekend Activities
“Today I went mountain biking in the Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest. It's amazing how far away ...”
29
Bowers Street Insurance Claim From Hell
“Following is a letter I wrote and mailed to the Massachusetts Insurance Complaint Department. It's ...”
27
Review: Belkin Wireless PDA Keyboard
“I wrote this review awhile ago, when I was trying several differnet PDA's and attempting ...”
25
StatHound.com bug gives away free stats
“I discovered a bug in StatHound that allows you to get full featured access for ...”
A new record
“I woke up early, drove to my parents house to get something for my sister, ...”
24
Gas, damnit
“I've been trying to avoid blogging about the rising gas prices because I don't like ...”
23
April Camping Trip
“Well I'm back from camping. Other than the expected rain last night and this morning, ...”
20
HOWTO: Fix duplicating emails on IMAP server
“Problem Receiving duplicate emails in IMAP email account Scenerio One IMAP account, accessed via an email client (in ...”
Watching beautiful weather through a window
“The digestion issues I've been having for the past few months have finally been resolved. ...”
Drink up; you seriously need it!
“Drink more water. Do it. Our body is made of mostly water. But you knew that already, ...”
18
Better understanding = more appreciation
“It's amazing that the complexity of most trivial things are rarely understood by the general ...”
16
Two galleries of my cat Debian
“April 8th, 2006 April 13th, 2006 ”
Why drink more tea?
“OK, tea is too bland for me too. Once you've had black coffee and learned ...”
13
My Birthday
“Yesterday was my birthday. I'm 24 years old (in other words, I'm starting my 25th ...”
09
Coding a style changer for WordPress 2.0
“I'm sure there are plugin's that take care of this function, however I decided to ...”
08
A new feline friend - Style changer feature added
“One of my tenants has about 12 cats in her apartment. She barely understands English. ...”
06
A free lunch
“So today I went to eat lunch at my favorite healthy restaurant, Life Alive, in ...”
03
First day on the job
“Well, today went great. I learned a ton of stuff about AerChannel, the product Aerva ...”
04.03.06 - Morning thoughts
“Today I start the new job in Cambridge, MA, at Aerva. Am I nervous? No, ...”
Mar
31
Using Google as quick learning tool
“So I received a work order yesterday through OnForce (a marketplace that connects buyers and ...”
29
Structural engineer pages added to basement project
“I have added a new page to the basement project post. It contains three images ...”
27
Setup Linux Server at WFCorp
“I've been dying to manage a Linux server in a production environment. I have a ...”
26
Fat-free Cottage Cheese & Strawberry Jam
“Wow. I had read in a health article somewhere that fat-free cottage cheese and jam ...”
Weird line break and formatting error fixed
“If you happen by my site within the past 24 hours, you might have noticed ...”
24
23
MyFMO.com Status Update
“I have decided to have phpBB, an open-source messaging board, handle the user authentication and ...”
The static weather season
“If you're living in the Northeast, you've probably noticed the increase of static discharges. I ...”
22
How bad do you want it?
“The likelihood of obtaining a lot of things life can be reduced to one simple ...”
19
Only in New England...
“There are some things you can only see in New England, or at least see ...”
Junior Engineer position accepted
“I received an email yesterday from Aerva offering me the Junior Engineer position that I ...”
18
Post Interview Results
“Well the interview went great. I found Aerva to be a very interesting company and ...”
15
Interview scheduled with Aerva
“A few days ago I submitted my resume to several companies for network / system ...”
13
The 10 Minute Cardio Burn
“I apologize for the short stall in posting. During the past two weeks I have ...”
03
Buyer backs out of purchasing my house
“I had a buyer that was ready to buy the house I am selling. He's ...”
Building a shed from scratch
“This project, like the basement project, started in 2004 when I began digging out the ...”
02
An excuse for bad writing? I don't think so...
“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers ...”
Renovating a 100 year old basement
“ The basement of my two-family house started with a dirt floor and approximately 6′ of ...”
Feb
28
Bra Spec?
“I saw this today while driving to work. Ideas anyone?”
24
Cleaning up the mental to-do list
“It always feel's good to finally finish things that have been on the back burner ...”
23
Modifying the WordPress (more…) link
“I found the more feature of WordPress to be very useful, however I wanted to ...”
Phishing at it's best
“Ever heard of phishing? It involves attempting to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords ...”
19
From the top of the mountian
“As promised, here is a picture I took on the lift up to the summit. ...”
18
Snowboarding in Gunstock
“I'm headed up to Gunstock to snowboard for the day. I'll stay overnight and ...”
13
Akmai.net Server Abuse
“Well, for the past few weeks, all of the sites on my server have been ...”
09
New Years Resoultion Update
“Well, it's almost 6 weeks into the new year and I'd like to give you ...”
06
Overcoming Desire
“So there I was, looking at the Jeep Rubicon on jeep.com and configuring the model ...”
01
New Planet Found in our Solar System
“It's the year 2006 and we're still discovering planets in our own Solar System. That ...”
Jan
29
Blogging from a Text Only Web Browser (Lynx)
“I'm laying in bed using my IBM Thinkpad 600e laptop running Debian Linux, connected to ...”
Giving In
“I have always been against using someone else’s code for my personal site. I told ...”
01
New Years Resolutions - 2006
“ Limit coffee consumption to two days per week 100 pushup's everyday by May 1st Finish myfmo.com fitness ...”
Year in Review - 2005
“I missed the 2004 review, but I decided that I should keep up with writing ...”
2005
“Bought Third Investment Property, Started Web Hosting Business”
Dec
26
Working on my basement
“I've been spending all my time working on my basement. I'm turning it into a ...”
Sep
23
A New Personal Best Windows Uptime!
“Well, my Windows XP Pro system just broke my personal best for the uptime of ...”
10
What OS does iPod run?
“The following was a comment posted by Fred Fredrickson in response to the following article ...”
Jul
29
9:11
“Why do I keep looking at the time and it says 9:11??? I've counted it. ...”
25
Excercising a little too much?
“You know you've been exercising, and taking exercising a little too seriously (since when am ...”
Mar
01
Passion of Christ - The Odyssey
“If you havent already, watch both these movies!! Passion of Christ is very dramatic and ...”
Jan
14
Debian Linux Rocks
“w00t! Here's how long Jabba (my Debian Linux box) has been running! 16:50:18 up 182 days, ...”
07
Life
“I've been living life because it's there to live. Most of the time I feel ...”
2004
“Bought Second Investment Property, Quit Getronics to Focus on Consulting”
Dec
27
First Dollar at new Dunkin Donuts
“Well, I went into the Mobile gas station near Getronics, knowing that there was a ...”
Nov
03
ShoutCast Ripper - Coding Time Update
“I cant believe I didnt look for this earlier. I knew there had to be ...”
Oct
30
Crazy Flu
“Damn, just when I thought my flu was gone, BOOM. Last night I went to ...”
Sep
30
GMail Review
“I was lucky enough to obtain a GMail account to beta test, and damn, I ...”
21
Switching Hosts - DSL Back up
“Becuase Linuxwebhost has recently had the worst uptime I can think of, Ive finally decided, ...”
11
Surfin on Dial-Up
“Today is the three year anniversary of 9/11/01. Just wanted to mention that first off. When ...”
Jul
20
How will 2004 be viewed in the year 2104?
“I've been thinking about the larger picture, and how we're living in what will be ...”
13
ekarma.net down, no ETR
“Well, my XBox crashed and this time I dont think I'll be able to fix ...”
02
screen utility
“Holy crap! I just learned how to use, probably the coolest Unix/Linux console utility that ...”
Jun
29
Busy busy busy
“For those that still check my site for updates (and I'm happy you do) :) ...”
May
14
Avant Browser Review
“Well I decided to give Avant Browser a review on Download.com. I use Avant browser ...”
08
Configuring Apache - raamdev.com backend
“I've been learning some wicked cool things with Apache. You can host multiple domains on ...”
04
Summer is finally here!
“Yea I know, I haven't updated this site in, well, forever (actually, 6 months). I ...”
Apr
24
ekarma.net down
“ARGH! Damnit. I woke up and didnt hear the normal buzz of computers that I ...”
05
Brick Shelves
“Well I needed some shelf space so I decided to make some shelves. The only ...”
Mar
26
2004 Hawaii Vacation
“ (Click the image) Give the images on the page a little while to load! There's ...”
07
Changed for Life
“Here is the result of more than two years of eating properly, working out regularly, ...”
02
Awesome Wallpaper - Mars once had Water!
“Check out this kick ass wallpaper. Actual pictures of the surface of mars just take ...”
Feb
06
A New Job - The Butterfly Effect Review
“Sorry for the slow updates. I've been pretty busy lately. I left Getronics to work ...”
2003
“Bought First Investment Property, Became a Landlord”
Dec
31
Year in Review - 2003
“Well, its been quite an eventful year this 2003 has. It came and went as ...”
24
QRIO Robots from Sony Japan
“I saw this on CNN a few days ago and after watching the video a ...”
10
HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)
“Damn, they werent kidding when they said HIIT takes some getting used to! I used ...”
07
Bad Weather - The Last Samurai Review
“My previous post talked about the nice weather; well now theres almost a foot of ...”
Nov
20
Nice Weather
“Last nights weather was awesome. Upper 50's! I could actually open the door and window ...”
14
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
“Finally found a good use for my old PDA that's been laying around doing nothing. ...”
09
The Matrix - Revolutions
“Call me stupid, but in my opinion, The Matrix is highly overrated. Kea and I ...”
Oct
28
What a month...
“Where should I start? It’s been awhile since I last posted something. Since then, I've ...”
06
Me
Sep
28
Desk Photos
“Two pictures of my desk at home that I did some funky stuff with: ...”
07
Damn My Sholders Hurt!
“I think its from overworking myself at the gym. I'm taking a break off from ...”
Aug
17
Biking More Often
“I've been riding my bike everywhere I can lately. Its a good workout and I'm ...”
04
Space War
“ Kick ass wallpaper.”
03
Funny Angelfire Feature
“I found an interesting feature on Angelfire (yanno that "free homepage" site). Whenever you type ...”
Jul
26
Finally DSL!
“Damn, finally got my DSL working. I had to run a phoneline from outside the ...”
Jun
25
Awesome Weather
“Whoa, 95+ degree days + 75+ degree nights = perfect weather! It was 105 degrees ...”
13
Jan 13, 2003 10:08:36
“ *cough*, Microsoft, need I say more?”
11
Yet Another New Layout
“I've done it again. I could not stand my previous layout so I'm changing it ...”
May
09
May 9, 2003 08:44:55
“NEWS FLASH: My cat, Hunnie, gave birth last night to 5 kittens!!! Pictures, and maybe even ...”
06
May 6, 2003 02:13:00
“It's been awhile since I posted anything here. :( Been busy with the house, and ...”
Apr
02
Apr 2, 2003 07:57:45
“Hey, just wanted to let everyone know (those few people that still check this site ...”
Feb
04
Feb 4, 2003 03:12:22
“Still working on getting those pictures from the snowboarding trip on here. They are all ...”
Jan
26
Jan 26, 2003 07:41:50
“Went snowboarding yesterday in Loon Mountian with my sweetheart, and my sister, her bf, and ...”
16
Jan 16, 2003 07:25:37
“I have been busy learning PHP & MySQL Programming recently and working on a few ...”
06
Jan 6, 2003 04:10:31
“ Made two StarWars/Simpsons wallpapers here at work. I was bored and I thought it would ...”
03
Jan 3, 2003 02:06:23
“Map of Getronics + my jogging route! Workout schedule soon to come.”
01
Jan 1, 2003 02:10:53
“Happy New Years! New years resolutions: 1) Lose 20lbs and get in shape by June 1st 2) ...”
2002
“Started 3rd Shift Job at Getronics, Moved into Attic Apartment”
Dec
25
Dec 25, 2002 11:42:58
“These are the days when I'm happy I own a Jeep! Thank you to everyone who ...”
24
Dec 24, 2002 11:29:04
“Merry Christmas.”
20
Dec 20, 2002 02:29:39
“Hmm.. Loved the smell of the air outside this morning. Smelled like spring, so fresh ...”
12
Dec 12, 2002 06:00:23
“Added a few things. The Projects section I made for any projects I am working ...”
09
Dec 9, 2002 10:35:44
“So cold... So tired... Need warmth... Need sleep...”
Nov
29
Nov 29, 2002 08:13:07
“Happy Birthday to my mom! You are the most wonderful mother, and although I dont ...”
27
Nov 27, 2002 02:10:11
“Stayed home sick today. Its been snowing all morning, since around 12am last night. I ...”
18
Nov 18, 2002 05:52:35
“Just wanted to give a shout to some guys I met at Getronics (the place ...”
15
Nov 15, 2002 10:46:14
“Job is pretty cool. Feel tired at the end of the day, but at least ...”
14
Nov 14, 2002 06:33:13
“Damn, I hate first shift work. I started that job already, and I'm in training ...”
12
Nov 12, 2002 09:51:58
“Found some old screenshots of my desktop that I took awhile ago (more than a ...”
07
Nov 7, 2002 07:37:21
“Wooo whoo. Got the job I went for an interview for yesterday. I'll be starting ...”
06
Nov 6, 2002 01:04:41
“Rainy day today. Went for an interview this morning at a place not far from ...”
03
Nov 3, 2002 01:42:19
“Watched The Ring last night with Kea. Scary movie. I would reccomend it to anyone ...”
Oct
31
Oct 31, 2002 09:42:24
“Happy Halloween! I went trick-or-treating with Kea and her baby sister today. It was fun, ...”
30
Oct 30, 2002 01:02:56
“LMAO! http://www.raamdev.com/funny_aol.htm”
26
Oct 26, 2002 09:46:09
“Happy (late) Birthday to both my brother (Ravi) and my friend Dee. So sorry I ...”
24
Oct 24, 2002 03:06:02
“Finally finished moving all my stuff to the new apartment and got most of it ...”
17
Oct 17, 2002 02:14:38
“Sorry for the delayed news update. I've been pretty sick the past few days. Kea ...”
10
Oct 10, 2002 10:09:20
“ New kitten! She was meowing pretty loud at my door the other day, so I ...”
07
Oct 7, 2002 12:23:20
“LOL! I was just saying a few hours ago how I wonder if my not ...”
Oct 7, 2002 11:53:53
“X-(!!!!!!!!!”
Oct 7, 2002 08:52:18
“I added three more galleries to the gallery page. One is a gallery of a ...”
03
Oct 3, 2002 11:56:25
“Theres a pretty cool science related article about a telescope the size of Earth itself! ...”
02
Oct 2, 2002 08:11:46
“Sorry I havent posted any news lately. Not much updates to the site. I added ...”
Sep
26
Sep 26, 2002 12:09:26
“As you can see, I made a new banner. How is it? Any comments? Please ...”
25
Sep 25, 2002 11:27:59
“ Hunnie had her kittens! 4 kittens to be exact. All are healthy. Click on the ...”
Sep 25, 2002 09:05:04
“ Hey, sorry for the delayed news update. Damn, already the 25th. Time seems to fly ...”
21
Sep 21, 2002 07:49:09
“Fun day today! We went apple picking, and we are going to eat at this ...”
20
Sep 20, 2002 11:01:59
“houy, headache right now :(”
17
Sep 17, 2002 10:13:57
“Updated the AIM Faces gallery. Listening to the new Eminem album. Read an interesting article about ...”
16
Sep 16, 2002 11:00:00
“Blah =\ :( :(( :*( =\ ?”
14
Sep 14, 2002 08:48:49
“Found this interesting article (http://www.msnbc.com/news/790212.asp) about a 15 year old kid that scammed people on ...”
13
Sep 13, 2002 10:22:43
“Wow, already Friday again! I am at work at the moment, and thought I should ...”
10
Sep 10, 2002 08:04:35
“Sorry for not updating the past few days. I've been tired as hell lately, and ...”
06
Sep 6, 2002 08:29:11
“ Whoa, been working late lately. Past 3 or 4 days I only got a few ...”
04
Sep 4, 2002 07:34:36
“ Well, I just got out of work an hour ago. Got a live webcam setup ...”
03
Sep 3, 2002 12:35:46
“Had fun today. Pretty relaxing day, got to spend most of it with Kea. Found a ...”
Aug
31
Aug 31, 2002 11:07:36
“Well, today I ate lunch at the restaurant Kea works at, then went to work. ...”
30
Aug 30, 2002 07:39:03
“ Another update on my bed, lol, its a lot higher now, as you can see ...”
29
Aug 29, 2002 11:14:38
“ Another day gone by. Work was ok. Got bigger bed today, and 2 more pillows. ...”
28
Aug 28, 2002 11:55:49
“This, as you may have guessed, is my daily journal area, or news area. Its ...”
Aug 28, 2002 06:41:37
“ Well, I decided not to jog. Going to stay home and just do my nightly ...”
Aug 28, 2002 05:53:10
“Damn virus. Someone is sending a mass mailing of a virus called W32.Yaha.F@mm. Its an ...”
1997
“Stuff I wrote before publishing online”
Jun
14
Foundations
“This article was written when I was 15 years old and was originally published in ...”