2016 posts

Feels good to get over the hump on a project I was struggling with and finally b…

Yesterday was quite warm for December, reaching around 60. I took advantage wit…

Just finished baking desserts for Christmas, including all of the cleanup and pr…

Almost 7 years later and I still occasionally have dreams about working at the W…

After a recent OS and Firefox update, I found myself with a window with 120+ emp…

Woo-hoo: Four day weekend! Happy Thanksgiving, all.

Awesome: The 10k Apart voting is done and my entry ended up as one of 12 "…

I have a keyboard (the music kind, Casio CTK-671). I like to play it sometimes…

Saturday evening I went to see Akron Symphony perform Holst's The Planets plus …

The 10k apart contest closed last Friday. I got in a few updates to my entry t…

I went to see the art at Akron Art Prize yesterday. Today was the last day, so…

I got an update link for my 10k Apart project on the 22cnd. I already had some…

Almost lost some work with git. I was using git reset --hard to rewrite some hi…

My 10k Apart entry is now officially deployed, meaning it made it onto the galle…

My 10k Apart entry was finally deployed and can be seen at its Azure URL, thoug…

I have spent much of my free time the last 12 days working on a project for the…

I believe I saw a satellite flare for the first time tonight. I saw a light mo…

Wow, the highest cost (31) bcrypt hashing of a password with PHP's password_hash…

Yay: after two weeks of my ear being clogged, I finally got it unclogged. My h…

After some struggling, I got the PhoneGap app for the Akron Art Prize submitted…

I'm not sure if I ever knew this before, but the PHP break statement has an opt…

Apparently, setting a running Apple laptop on top of a closed one can cause the …

Went on a riverboat cruise down the Cuyahoga. More industrial and history focus…

We use Rackspace at Cogneato. Looks like they just got bought.

My ear is clogged. It has been since last Saturday. I'm not sure why. All I …

I had quite possibly my first car accident dream. Hopefully this isn't forebod…

This last week, it has seemed to have rained more than it has for the entire pr…

Figuring things out with this phonegap stuff. I will have to post some of what …

Struggling with PhoneGap: had trouble with geolocation on iOS wasn't able to ge…

This idea is based on my Local + Proxy Remote Hosting for Personal Site idea, b…

Went to an Akron Code Club meetup this evening. Started working through code ex…

My weekend in short: family reunion in Pennsylvania, camping, Ikea trip, root b…

Going to the farm in Pennsylvania where my grandma grew up for a family reunion …

GiveCamp 2016 is over. Another successful year. The new Cleveland Garlic Fest…

Day 2 of GiveCamp is complete. My team is in quite good shape. We shed one me…

First day of GiveCamp 2016. Working on the Cleveland Garlic Festival website. …

Awesome, there is a digital version of the Library of Babel. Everything that y…

Today, I ran over and killed some sort of mammal with my car. It darted out fro…

Recently, I needed to strip some HTML tags from some data. The goal was to mak…

I finished reading Dune today (yesterday), except for the appendixes. It was a …

This past weekend of three days was dominated by two things: reading of Dune an…

I was relieved today (yesterday) to find out that a document from my health insu…

Got myself a library card today for the Cuyahoga County Public Library system. …

I read a post recently of Dave Rupert lamenting that he can describe any digita…

Long day downtown today (yesterday). I took the day off for the Cavs parade, th…

Woo, the Cleveland curse broken after 52 years. Such a close game all the way t…

I think I've watched or listened to more basketball this playoff season than in…

Registered for Givecamp again.

I'm glad that Stir Trek has released videos of its 2016 talks, since I didn't l…

Saw Flight of the Conchords do a live show at Playhouse Square to(last)night. …