Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 1st, 2015
June was such an exciting month and the good news over summer keeps getting better: People finally wise up and take down the Confederate flag (the “rebel flag” where I grew up) The US Supreme Court allows gay marriage (whether or not they hijacked diplomacy is another thing) ESA’s Philae comet lander makes contact with Rosetta […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2015
I love books. These days I buy most of my books for Kindle, but I still buy paper for books I really like and want to keep around. Tech books are notorious for being obsolete a couple of years after printing, but there are still several timeless books I use for reference and would recommend […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2014
In honor of xkcd 979, I’m posting this so future generations of Courier-IMAP users won’t have to Bing for a solution in vain (and hit lots of useless advice). In the process of finally getting around to upgrading my 2008-era courier-imap 4.1.1 setup to the shiny new 4.15 hotness and putting things in Chef templates, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 20th, 2014
I finally reached a critical mass of various plants, flowers, and succulents on my apartment balcony that required multiple trips to the sink when I needed to water them. While browsing the hardware store I was eyeing the garden drip irrigation systems and thought why not? Originally I wanted to use some sort of a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2014
I’ve been late to the game of nerding out on the telephone network and phreaking in general and it’s been fun browsing over old maps. I was browsing the “Central section” microwave map on the AT&T Long Lines Places and Routes website and was surprised to see my home town, Kinta, on the map. I […]
Posted in opentsdb, Uncategorized on Apr 6th, 2014
Over a recent couple of weekends I built a thing to measure the current and voltage of the components of a 12V solar/PV power system. Ever since I started using solar power at Burning Man I wanted to get a good measure of how much I was consuming and how much was left. At the […]
Posted in IKEA Cluster, Uncategorized on Oct 24th, 2013
Yes! Web-scale home electricity tracking, because why not! For the longest time I’ve been using the Kill-A-Watt meter to measure home power usage, especially all of my computer gear. The problem is, you only get a LCD readout, no way to store that info over time. A friend told me how he was using Insteon […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2013
Takes two weeks off from work, plans to go to Death Valley and maybe Yosemite. Government shuts down all national parks, barricades roads, evicts campers two days in.
Posted in IKEA Cluster, Uncategorized on Feb 17th, 2013
A couple of months ago I acquired a stack of Raspberry Pis because they were so hard to get, might as well get it over with. Of course, once I got them they went untouched for weeks. I eventually started selling off part of my stash to other coworkers to help spread the fun. After […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 17th, 2013
It’s been fantastically warm this weekend for once, enough to get me outside long enough to notice my plants have started budding/flowering! The pink jasmine, lavender, and this succulent are all showing signs of new life. I’m taking a couple of weeks of vacation soon, which will be awesome. I don’t have many ideas on […]
