A Better Broadband Router: Linksys WRT54GL and the Tomato Firmware
My family has been using Midcontinent Communications for our broadband internet for about three and a half years now, and have had a very good experience with it. About a…
Household Energy Conservation
Last Saturday, we had the opportunity to have an Xcel Energy employee come out to our house and perform a home energy audit. This program, subsidized by the company, gives…
8-bit Marching Band
You've got to love a marching band that can not only play the Tetris theme, but create the game while marching (direct link): How many songs do you recognize? Also,…
Mobile Organization with Sandy and Jott
Since its release in May 2005, I had been using 37signals' Backpack web application to keep track of pretty much anything I needed to remember. It worked well for awhile,…
How the Command Line Saved Me from 19 Hours of Tedious Work
At work the other day, I ran into a somewhat odd problem. I had a Windows server with nearly 3,000 folders, each containing a PDF file and an empty ZIP…
Voting in this Country is a Mess – Let’s Fix it Already.
I recently read a couple of really interesting articles about two big voting/election issues the United States is currently facing - the system we use to elect our politicians, and…
Getting Back Into Shape With My New iPod Nano
This Christmas, my big gift from Casey and the boys was a shiny new (red) iPod nano that replaces the 3+ year old 3rd generation iPod that died on me…