Found: Plantower PMS3003 and PMS5003 Connectors
Plantower’s particle sensors are handy devices but the physical connection to them can be difficult.
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Computers
Apple’s HomePod: I Am The Weakest Link
Apple’’s HomePod lets you ask Siri to play music and control your home, but you may have to adapt to Siri before Siri will adapt to you.
Apple’s iOS Security Faustian Dilemma
Apple has a “user-centric” business model but forces iOS users to choose between using the version of iOS they want and getting security updates.
Replacement Power Supply For Libratone Zipp
When a wifi speaker’s power supply breaks and the official replacement is stupidly expensive you can find a replacement for the replacement on Amazon.
Machine Learning Baby Photos
Machine Learning is toddling into the world at breakneck speed. Let’s check out its baby photos.
Customer Service and Security: What Not to Do
If you’re a company that may receive security-related reports, the first thing not to do on the customer service front is to make it difficult to report issu...
How to Safely Update Your Apple Devices
The release of iOS 10 didn’t go smoothly. Here’s how to protect yourself when you update your iOS devices.
Please Don’t Get Off My Lawn: Abundance, Scarcity and Problem Solving
This isn’t a “get off my lawn you kids!” story. If anything, it’s the opposite. During my early days in the computer industry we lived in a severely resour...
CODE: Notes on Ember and Ember App Kit
I’ve recently been working with EmberJS, a Javascript framework for building MVC-based web applications. I’m liking it a lot. It feels well thought out, well...
Strong Unique Passwords and Why I Don’t Use Public Computers
Recently I reported some phishing scam spam coming from a friend’s account - it looked likely that his email account had gotten cracked.
iPad Air First Impressions
I headed over to Best Buy first thing Friday morning… they opened at 8AM and handled the iPad Air rollout very nicely. It was raining hard… they gave rese...
Snuglets – Making Magsafe 2 Not Drive Me Insane
When Apple first introduced the MagSafe power adapter connector it felt like a big step forward in an area no other company was making improvements in. MagSa...
Serious iOS 7 Flaw with iTunes Match and Cellular Data
I ran through most of my month's data allotment in a few hours yesterday afternoon (you can do this at LTE speeds). It was mere minutes between a warning fr...
CODE: jQuery’s :contains and White Space
Over the weekend I ran into one of those situations where it felt like I had found a bug in a very commonly used portion of a very commonly used piece of so...
Air Quality Egg Helper Browser Extension
I picked up a couple of Air Quality Eggs through Kickstarter. They're neat gadgets that can be equipped with a variety of sensors to monitor the air.
Feeling the Love browser extension
I feel love.
Low Frame Rate in World of Warcraft on a Retina MacBook Pro
World of Warcraft has been running frustratingly slowly on my Retina MacBook Pro. Though it has a lot of pixels to push the machine's CPU and GPU are quite ...
Fixing “iOS Simulator failed to install the application”
Occasionally while I’m trying to build an iOS app I’ll get this error when I try to run it:
WTF Economics
I subscribe to the magazine "Cooking Light". Issues usually have some good recipes when you ignore all the stuff about yoga, aromatherapy and blood pressure...
GNU Emacs on Rasperry Pi
For the two people in the world who were wondering this, GNU Emacs runs just fine under Debian on a Raspberry Pi. It doesn’t leave much memory available for ...
Raspberry Pi
A small but powerful computer
Emacs: The Poster Child for Software Bloat
I love Emacs. It’s the editor I grew up with. I’ve been using it for over 30 years. I don’t think I could switch to another editor now if I wanted to. There’...
No More Printer Rebates from Apple
Apple has long offered a $100 rebate on select printers. It’s something I’ve counseled many Mac buyers to take advantage of. You could get a moderate quality...
The Mac Companion: Are You Serious, Iomega?
Over the summer, Iomega announced their latest external hard drive, this one targeted at the Macintosh community: the Mac Companion. The Companion is a very ...
Tech Note: Cloudbusting
My blog runs on a piece of software called Wordpress. I love Wordpress; it’s well designed, easy to use, easy to maintain. It’s good for serving blogs but it...
Words of Advice Before Upgrading to iOS 5 and iCloud
Today is a big day for Apple. The iPhone 4S is shipping and Apple is doing one of its biggest set of software updates ever. Today they’ll be releasing iOS 5 ...
iPhone Tethering
Free Wifi is great, isn’t it? Except when it’s worth exactly what you paid for it: nothing.
iTunes Hygiene
Instead of working on a site redesign that I have a tight deadline on, I am dealing with a long-standing peeve I’ve had: iTunes hygiene.
Twitter and Facebook Have Not Killed Their RSS Feeds, Completely
Yesterday there was a fuss about alarming news that Facebook and Twitter had both killed off their RSS feeds (“completely”).
Why I Don’t Self-Host Anymore
I’m at An Event Apart and have just listened to a great presentation by Jeremy Keith on data permanency. He touched on many issues, from technical ones regar...
A Reason I Like Apple
I don't go to physical Apple retail stores very often but this weekend in New York I needed a mini-displayport to HDMI cable, so we took a walk to the 5t...
My Inbox Is Not a Todo List
I have 6 pieces of email in my inbox right now, down from somewhere slightly south of a thousand a few days ago. Much of the mail that was cluttering my inbo...
Eating My Own Dog Food
For a while I’ve been advising people who need simple web sites to use Wordpress. Not just people who want to blog, but people who need a very simple site wi...
Whenever I Go Away, I Want to Start Anew…
There’s a thrill for me in the initial exploration of an idea, the initial design of a piece of software or web site, and in learning how to use new tools or...
Fixing Perl after MacOS X Security Update 2009-001
Apple's first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of so...
MacOS X DVDs – Versions and Saving a Little Money on Them
The family pack is licensed for use for up to five machines in one household, and lists for $199, a pretty good deal for staying legal at less than the cost ...
Security
Apple’s iOS Security Faustian Dilemma
Apple has a “user-centric” business model but forces iOS users to choose between using the version of iOS they want and getting security updates.
So Wifi Isn’t Secure – What Now?
Many individuals and many organizations treat their router and WiFi network as a security perimeter. “The hostile world is outside. The warm, friendly, safe ...
Equifax’ Massive Data Leak and You
Equifax has leaked data on most Americans.
Protect Your Domain Registrations and Privacy
When you register a domain name, you may expose personal information about yourself: your address, phone number email address. Here’s how to protect privacy.
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Apple Pay
Credit card compromises and fraud are an epidemic. Here’s how to use Apple Pay to protect your credit card information from being exploited.
Customer Service and Security: What Not to Do
If you’re a company that may receive security-related reports, the first thing not to do on the customer service front is to make it difficult to report issu...
All Your iCloud Accounts Are Belong To Us
What do you do when attackers say they’ll reset hundreds of millions of iCloud accounts?
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of March 18th, 2017
Security, privacy and Internet of Things updates for the week of March 18th 2017: Apple ransom, CIA leaks, Google blacklists Symantec certificates, CIA data ...
Personal Security Questions Are Bullshit
Personal security questions are not only a terrible user experience, they can also reduce your account’s security rather than enhance it. Let’s explore them ...
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of March 12th, 2017
Items of note in security, privacy and IoT from the week of March 12th, 2017.
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of March 6th, 2017
Security The biggest story in security this week is Wikileaks’ dump of CIA documents, reminding people that yes, the CIA is a spy agency and that yes, spy ag...
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of February 20th
Weekly security and privacy news review: SHA1, connected cars, SSL update, G Suite, unprotected server, drones and LEDs, Amazon Echo.
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of February 13th
I’m experimenting with compiling a list of interesting articles each week - I’ll compile a list of articles that caught my eye. I’m trying to keep this quick...
Password Dumps: How To Protect Yourself
By now you’re probably used to reading about web sites getting broken into, exposing millions of accounts. How do you protect yourself and how can developers...
Two Factor Authentication, SMS and NIST
What’s the story with NIST’s recent “ban” of SMS for two factor authentication?
Stream: A Black Box for WordPress Security
You’re searching your blog for spam for the fourth time in the last few days. Not only can’t you figure out how the spammer keeps getting in, you also can’t ...
Pokémon NO – Oh Hai All My Google Information
Pokémon Go has been all over my newsfeed today. I tried it over the weekend and found it oddly compelling - the mix of the real world, accentuated by the Pok...
Strong Unique Passwords and Why I Don’t Use Public Computers
Recently I reported some phishing scam spam coming from a friend’s account - it looked likely that his email account had gotten cracked.
Code
Stop The loop() Insanity!
Learn how to write an Arduino 1 loop() with multiple delays without shooting yourself in the foot.
Please License Your Code
We need to know your intention.
Fixing Rails 5.2 Bus Error on ARMv7/Raspberry Pi
Rails 5.2 apps crash with a bus error on ARMv7 CPUs like the Raspberry Pi. Here’s a quick fix.
Fixing ESP8266mDNS MDNS.queryService() Crashes
Fixing mysterious mDNS crashes on the ESP8266.
CODE: Notes on Ember and Ember App Kit
I’ve recently been working with EmberJS, a Javascript framework for building MVC-based web applications. I’m liking it a lot. It feels well thought out, well...
CODE: jQuery’s :contains and White Space
Over the weekend I ran into one of those situations where it felt like I had found a bug in a very commonly used portion of a very commonly used piece of so...
Air Quality Egg Helper Browser Extension
I picked up a couple of Air Quality Eggs through Kickstarter. They're neat gadgets that can be equipped with a variety of sensors to monitor the air.
Fixing “iOS Simulator failed to install the application”
Occasionally while I’m trying to build an iOS app I’ll get this error when I try to run it:
Twitter and Facebook Have Not Killed Their RSS Feeds, Completely
Yesterday there was a fuss about alarming news that Facebook and Twitter had both killed off their RSS feeds (“completely”).
Nutrition Labels for WordPress
Download I’ve just released a plugin for Wordpress, wp-nutrition-label. It provides a Wordpress shortcode which generates an HTML FDA-style nutrition label. ...
How to Quote a Shortcode in WordPress
Wordpress offers a handy mechanism called a “shortcode”, which is a kind of macro. Shortcodes are supplied by Wordpress itself and by plugins that extend Wor...
Whenever I Go Away, I Want to Start Anew…
There’s a thrill for me in the initial exploration of an idea, the initial design of a piece of software or web site, and in learning how to use new tools or...
Fixing Perl after MacOS X Security Update 2009-001
Apple's first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of so...
WebDev: jQuery, JSON, IE and Caching
When you bookmark a listing the icon changes from a heart with a plus sign to a heart with a minus sign, the count of the number of times the the listing was...
Offline jQuery Documentation for MacOS X
I don’t always have reliable online access when I’m coding - in particular, I was on a bus today for a couple of hours and didn’t always have Internet access...
Showing a Column as a UNIX Timestamp in MySQL
While MySQL has quite an assortment of date and time formats which it supports, I usually find it most convenient to store timestamps as an IN...
Working Through a Catalyst View Rendering Problem
I’ve been adding some belated email notifications to UVFood and in the process I ran into a frustrating problem: it wasn’t working at all. … Views are fo...
Software
ESP32-H2 Coming Soon
Adafruit now has listings for the ESP32-H2-MINI-1 module and ESP32-H2-DevKitM-1. The ESP32-H2 is Espressif’s new CPU that has Thread, Zigbee, Bluetooth 5 and...
Apple’s iOS Security Faustian Dilemma
Apple has a “user-centric” business model but forces iOS users to choose between using the version of iOS they want and getting security updates.
Machine Learning Baby Photos
Machine Learning is toddling into the world at breakneck speed. Let’s check out its baby photos.
CODE: Notes on Ember and Ember App Kit
I’ve recently been working with EmberJS, a Javascript framework for building MVC-based web applications. I’m liking it a lot. It feels well thought out, well...
Strong Unique Passwords and Why I Don’t Use Public Computers
Recently I reported some phishing scam spam coming from a friend’s account - it looked likely that his email account had gotten cracked.
CODE: jQuery’s :contains and White Space
Over the weekend I ran into one of those situations where it felt like I had found a bug in a very commonly used portion of a very commonly used piece of so...
Feeling the Love browser extension
I feel love.
Low Frame Rate in World of Warcraft on a Retina MacBook Pro
World of Warcraft has been running frustratingly slowly on my Retina MacBook Pro. Though it has a lot of pixels to push the machine's CPU and GPU are quite ...
Fixing “iOS Simulator failed to install the application”
Occasionally while I’m trying to build an iOS app I’ll get this error when I try to run it:
GNU Emacs on Rasperry Pi
For the two people in the world who were wondering this, GNU Emacs runs just fine under Debian on a Raspberry Pi. It doesn’t leave much memory available for ...
Emacs: The Poster Child for Software Bloat
I love Emacs. It’s the editor I grew up with. I’ve been using it for over 30 years. I don’t think I could switch to another editor now if I wanted to. There’...
iPhone Photos Without Photostream
Apple’s iOS 5 introduced Photostream as part of their iCloud offering - when you take photos on an iOS device they are automatically synced to iCloud and fr...
Tech Note: Cloudbusting
My blog runs on a piece of software called Wordpress. I love Wordpress; it’s well designed, easy to use, easy to maintain. It’s good for serving blogs but it...
Words of Advice Before Upgrading to iOS 5 and iCloud
Today is a big day for Apple. The iPhone 4S is shipping and Apple is doing one of its biggest set of software updates ever. Today they’ll be releasing iOS 5 ...
Eating My Own Dog Food
For a while I’ve been advising people who need simple web sites to use Wordpress. Not just people who want to blog, but people who need a very simple site wi...
entertainment
Apple’s HomePod: I Am The Weakest Link
Apple’’s HomePod lets you ask Siri to play music and control your home, but you may have to adapt to Siri before Siri will adapt to you.
iTunes Hygiene
Instead of working on a site redesign that I have a tight deadline on, I am dealing with a long-standing peeve I’ve had: iTunes hygiene.
Omnious Sounding
Yahoo seems to have changed the layout of Yahoo Movies recently. I was looking at what was playing locally and saw this: It sounds ominous. If I don’t...
In the Category of “Just No”
1 Do you ever turn on the television and think "Oh my, why hasn't Fox TV adapted Ab Fab into a US sitcom? ... Unfortunately, it appears that Fox never ...
Battlestar Galactica: Both Back and Ending
The new episode will apparently run 3.5 minutes long, so set make sure your DVRs are catching that because I suspect you’ll be very unhappy about missing the...
Futurama: Bender’s Game
1 "Futurama" unfortunately never got the love that "The Simpsons" gets, but I'm still grateful for the fact that Fox gave the show another chance in the fo...
Brian Eno Is Alive and Well in My iPhone
Given the current events in the US (or global) economy, “Bloom” rescues me from continually listening to only chill-out music and Radiohead’s most apocalypti...
Keeping Your Warcraft Addons Up To Date
While I’m on the subject of World of Warcraft, I want to take a moment to mention the software I use to keep the add-ons I use up to date. … The set I u...
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Is Out on November 13th
"World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack" Blizzard has announced that the new expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, will be released on...
David Foster Wallace Has Left the Building
I remember around the time that "Infinite Jest" came out, several of my friends were talking about it. ctan was enraptured by it, read it cover to cover ...
Apple’s iPod Event on September 9th
Tuesday September 9th 2008 (today as I finish this; I meant to get this out sooner) is a special Apple event called “Let’s Rock” - although they haven’t spec...
Macintosh
Y U DO THIS, ITUNES?
me: “I will buy this video from iTunes”
Snuglets – Making Magsafe 2 Not Drive Me Insane
When Apple first introduced the MagSafe power adapter connector it felt like a big step forward in an area no other company was making improvements in. MagSa...
Low Frame Rate in World of Warcraft on a Retina MacBook Pro
World of Warcraft has been running frustratingly slowly on my Retina MacBook Pro. Though it has a lot of pixels to push the machine's CPU and GPU are quite ...
iPhone Photos Without Photostream
Apple’s iOS 5 introduced Photostream as part of their iCloud offering - when you take photos on an iOS device they are automatically synced to iCloud and fr...
No More Printer Rebates from Apple
Apple has long offered a $100 rebate on select printers. It’s something I’ve counseled many Mac buyers to take advantage of. You could get a moderate quality...
The Mac Companion: Are You Serious, Iomega?
Over the summer, Iomega announced their latest external hard drive, this one targeted at the Macintosh community: the Mac Companion. The Companion is a very ...
Words of Advice Before Upgrading to iOS 5 and iCloud
Today is a big day for Apple. The iPhone 4S is shipping and Apple is doing one of its biggest set of software updates ever. Today they’ll be releasing iOS 5 ...
Fixing Perl after MacOS X Security Update 2009-001
Apple's first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of so...
Offline jQuery Documentation for MacOS X
I don’t always have reliable online access when I’m coding - in particular, I was on a bus today for a couple of hours and didn’t always have Internet access...
MacOS X DVDs – Versions and Saving a Little Money on Them
The family pack is licensed for use for up to five machines in one household, and lists for $199, a pretty good deal for staying legal at less than the cost ...
Um...
Publishing to WordPress from Google Docs
Learn how to publish content created in Google Docs to Wordpress.
BBC’s Best Typo
With all the flap last week about Facebook buying WhatsApp for a stupidly large amount of money, I think most people missed BBC’s awesome typo on their first...
Today’s Best Spam
These spammers are ahead of my entire organization in attempting to protect my brand! I’ll definitely send this to my CEO.
Priorities
Interesting how Amazon prioritizes use experience. Of course they want to make it easy to shop, right? I can buy something via 1-click without having to ...
Great Headlines From My Newsfeed
I just have to hope that someone at the BBC got a chuckle when they decided on this excerpt for the article's newsfeed.
Omnious Sounding
Yahoo seems to have changed the layout of Yahoo Movies recently. I was looking at what was playing locally and saw this: It sounds ominous. If I don’t...
Doomed
Fox News is the most trusted TV news source, with 39.3% of respondents to an IFC survey saying they trusted it most. [From Poll: Interne...
So You’re Having a Benefit Event…
So - the day of the event - you get a call asking what restaurants will be there. … The caller mentions to you that he tried to email quite a while ago but ...
Food
November Roast: Timor-based Coffee Blend
I roast my own coffee.
RECIPE: Tandoori Cauliflower
This recipe is based on a recipe from Pure Wow… be sure to check out their awesome photo!
WTF Economics
I subscribe to the magazine "Cooking Light". Issues usually have some good recipes when you ignore all the stuff about yoga, aromatherapy and blood pressure...
Korean Tacos
Since I’ve completely failed to be in the same place as a Korean taco food truck I decided to take a shot at making my own Korean tacos.
Not Overheating
Some teas like boiling water… some teas like cooler water. Most green teas and oolongs work best with water in the 180 - 185 degree range. Yes, you can use ...
Lean Chicken Chorizo Recipe
I like the flavor of chorizo but I'm not thrilled with its ingredients. Most commercial chorizo is very low quality food and quite unhealthy. It's made wi...
Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal
It takes a little more care though, and takes longer to cook. Steel-cut oatmeal Rolled oats The recipe is a straightforward translation ...
Free Ice Cream on Election Day
Back to the important things: Ben & Jerry’s is giving away free cones from 5PM to 8PM today (election day). http://www.benjerry.com/features/i_voted/
life
On My 50th Birthday
So I’ve finished half a century on the Earth. The word century always sounds impressive. And while fifty years sounds impressive, half a century sounds even ...
Pill Pockets
Now that our cats are becoming elderly, they need some kitty meds. Nothing too serious, but some daily pills, probably more to come.
Down One Cat
Temporarily. Zooty and Rebo are 15 years old now and are starting to show some wear and tear. Rebo is recently on blood pressure medication (older kidne...
Happy 100th, Julia Child
I have two favorite memories of Julia Child, neither of which involves Saturday Night Live.
I Hadn’t Expected It To Be So Dusty
Although I hadn’t expected a flood, either. I usually think of hurricanes sitting off the coast and dumping on Cape Cod and Boston (if they ever get that far...
Welcome to dot-dot-romkey
And the environment that I work in has changed and become much more complex… where two decades ago a piece of software most likely ran from the command-line,...
wordpress
Publishing to WordPress from Google Docs
Learn how to publish content created in Google Docs to Wordpress.
Tech Note: Cloudbusting
My blog runs on a piece of software called Wordpress. I love Wordpress; it’s well designed, easy to use, easy to maintain. It’s good for serving blogs but it...
Nutrition Labels for WordPress
Download I’ve just released a plugin for Wordpress, wp-nutrition-label. It provides a Wordpress shortcode which generates an HTML FDA-style nutrition label. ...
How to Quote a Shortcode in WordPress
Wordpress offers a handy mechanism called a “shortcode”, which is a kind of macro. Shortcodes are supplied by Wordpress itself and by plugins that extend Wor...
Eating My Own Dog Food
For a while I’ve been advising people who need simple web sites to use Wordpress. Not just people who want to blog, but people who need a very simple site wi...
LJ Crossposting
I have a bunch of half-written things that I haven’t finished because I haven’t been happy with the state of cross-posting between this blog and Livejournal ...
Media
Y U DO THIS, ITUNES?
me: “I will buy this video from iTunes”
Blu-Ray
I’m watching a movie on … gasp… Blu-Ray for the first time in recent memory.
Great Headlines From My Newsfeed
I just have to hope that someone at the BBC got a chuckle when they decided on this excerpt for the article's newsfeed.
WTF Economics
I subscribe to the magazine "Cooking Light". Issues usually have some good recipes when you ignore all the stuff about yoga, aromatherapy and blood pressure...
Uncategorized
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of February 27th, 2017
Security If you want a phone that’s less likely to be broken into simply because it does much less, the Nokia 3310 may be for you. No App Store and no wifi ...
Planet Earth Is Blue and There’s Nothing I Can Do
Ground Control to Major Tom Ground Control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Ground Control to Major Tom (Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven,...
MacOS X DVDs – Versions and Saving a Little Money on Them
The family pack is licensed for use for up to five machines in one household, and lists for $199, a pretty good deal for staying legal at less than the cost ...
music
Serious iOS 7 Flaw with iTunes Match and Cellular Data
I ran through most of my month's data allotment in a few hours yesterday afternoon (you can do this at LTE speeds). It was mere minutes between a warning fr...
iTunes Hygiene
Instead of working on a site redesign that I have a tight deadline on, I am dealing with a long-standing peeve I’ve had: iTunes hygiene.
Brian Eno Is Alive and Well in My iPhone
Given the current events in the US (or global) economy, “Bloom” rescues me from continually listening to only chill-out music and Radiohead’s most apocalypti...
ajax
WebDev: jQuery, JSON, IE and Caching
When you bookmark a listing the icon changes from a heart with a plus sign to a heart with a minus sign, the count of the number of times the the listing was...
Offline jQuery Documentation for MacOS X
I don’t always have reliable online access when I’m coding - in particular, I was on a bus today for a couple of hours and didn’t always have Internet access...
Hardware
Where To Find And Buy Electronics Components
Finding parts can be challenging even in the best of times. Here are some helpful resources.
The CCS811 Is Not A Carbon Monoxide (CO) Sensor
The CCS811 is sometimes mistakenly sold as a carbon monoxide sensor, which it is not.
Hey Kids, Don’t Leave Your Naked Grill Sensor Out Overnight!
Naked hardware and moisture don’t mix! Duh!
perl
Fixing Perl after MacOS X Security Update 2009-001
Apple's first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of so...
Working Through a Catalyst View Rendering Problem
I’ve been adding some belated email notifications to UVFood and in the process I ran into a frustrating problem: it wasn’t working at all. … Views are fo...
tv
In the Category of “Just No”
1 Do you ever turn on the television and think "Oh my, why hasn't Fox TV adapted Ab Fab into a US sitcom? ... Unfortunately, it appears that Fox never ...
Battlestar Galactica: Both Back and Ending
The new episode will apparently run 3.5 minutes long, so set make sure your DVRs are catching that because I suspect you’ll be very unhappy about missing the...
Internet
Net Neutrality: The Wire Does Not Dictate Its Use
Why does net neutrality matter? Imagine if your electric company managed your power the way your cable company sells TV channels.
iPhone Tethering
Free Wifi is great, isn’t it? Except when it’s worth exactly what you paid for it: nothing.
Catalyst
Working Through a Catalyst View Rendering Problem
I’ve been adding some belated email notifications to UVFood and in the process I ran into a frustrating problem: it wasn’t working at all. … Views are fo...
mysql
Showing a Column as a UNIX Timestamp in MySQL
While MySQL has quite an assortment of date and time formats which it supports, I usually find it most convenient to store timestamps as an IN...
just no
In the Category of “Just No”
1 Do you ever turn on the television and think "Oh my, why hasn't Fox TV adapted Ab Fab into a US sitcom? ... Unfortunately, it appears that Fox never ...
Movies
Omnious Sounding
Yahoo seems to have changed the layout of Yahoo Movies recently. I was looking at what was playing locally and saw this: It sounds ominous. If I don’t...
Books
Back to top ↑Science
Science Is Happening All Around You
For Earth Day: What do you imagine when you think of “science”? White coats, test tubes, beakers? Crazy hair and bowties? Musty books of facts?
Privacy
Equifax’ Massive Data Leak and You
Equifax has leaked data on most Americans.
software
From Wordpress to Jekyll and Beyond
After 14 years it’s time to move on from Wordpress.
hardware
ESP32-C6 Reality Check
I was lucky enough to get a couple of ESP32-C6 devkits through AliExpress when Espressif recently made them available. If you’re thinking about getting one t...