Jim Kalafut
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  • May 19, 2025 Good TV Intros
  • January 25, 2025 Happy 31st Birthday, Jar of Flies
  • December 30, 2024 LLM Use In 2025
  • July 17, 2024 How to Watch "Battlestar Galactica" (Revived)
  • July 8, 2024 Should've AUTOINCREMENTed
  • June 10, 2024 Living under the Thunderbolt 1000
  • April 25, 2024 Fossil SCM (again)
  • April 24, 2024 Premature Architecture
  • April 15, 2024 Intrinsic Value of My Non-Asian Upwork Account
  • March 14, 2024 Truth Social: Bizarro World
  • February 14, 2024 Taking an SQL query from 2s to 4ms
  • January 13, 2024 The Dangerous Life of a Pedestrian in America
  • January 5, 2024 Static Hosting with S3 and Cloudflare
  • November 15, 2023 Sneaky, Boogie Board
  • November 12, 2023 Spoilage Abounds
  • November 3, 2023 Happy Birthday, kalafut.net
  • October 11, 2023 Sorry, NYT, I choose neither
  • September 27, 2023 Floss loops
  • September 19, 2023 All the Blog Posts
  • August 25, 2023 The Scourge of Tinted Windows
  • August 10, 2023 Pump It Up, Oregon
  • July 10, 2023 The Subscription Renewal Drill
  • July 2, 2023 Pay to Play (Chess)
  • November 27, 2022 Today Bankruptcy
  • November 11, 2022 Sherwood Sports
  • September 15, 2022 My Patience for "Things" is Running Low
  • September 9, 2022 Meet the New Site, Same As the Old Site
  • July 15, 2022 Create React App Proxy Setup
  • April 19, 2022 Monitoring Go apps with Distributed Tracing and OpenTelemetry
  • February 18, 2022 Fixing Multi-Track Audio Playback for Plex on Samsung TVs
  • February 12, 2022 A Thorny Cron Permission Issue
  • January 10, 2022 Anki - Workload Management
  • January 8, 2022 Useful CLI Tools
  • January 4, 2022 Ringing in the new year with WWV
  • January 3, 2022 SEOpocalypse
  • January 2, 2022 Anki
  • January 1, 2022 Productivity tools in 2022
  • October 16, 2021 Blogging setup in 2021
  • December 31, 2020 sqlc
  • February 12, 2019 WWV Simulator
  • June 17, 2018 Apple Photos Dates
  • December 10, 2017 JSON, MessagePack, Protobuf... LZMA don't care
  • November 26, 2017 In Defense of Standalone GPS
  • August 6, 2017 Single-App Django Projects
  • July 3, 2017 Task Management Systems
  • May 21, 2017 One Year
  • May 21, 2016 Staticizing WordPress
  • March 24, 2016 Text-based Taxes
  • February 3, 2016 Elm
  • January 24, 2016 Fossil to git
  • August 9, 2015 In defense of DVDs
  • May 19, 2015 Not Missing 'Mad Men'
  • March 25, 2015 Tribute to a leader
  • February 23, 2015 Public speaking
  • February 19, 2015 Justice
  • February 7, 2015 Train Big. Snow Fluffy.
  • February 5, 2015 Self-Imposed Sabbatical
  • February 4, 2015 Asian Grocery Stores
  • February 3, 2015 Infant car seats
  • February 1, 2015 Have a Nexus 7? Get the Chrome Beta
  • January 29, 2015 A First Look At Fossil SCM
  • January 24, 2015 RSS? You should probably try TTR
  • January 22, 2015 Why Jekyll?
  • January 20, 2015 And Suddenly My Best Phone Is Junk
  • January 18, 2015 Passing slices to variadic functions
  • January 17, 2015 Yet Another Todo List
  • January 16, 2015 Brokenmold: A New Hope
  • January 12, 2015 Hello Jekyll
  • October 9, 2014 Hello Königspress
  • May 16, 2014 Chromecast and IGMP
  • May 5, 2014 Meet Laura
  • April 20, 2014 Caveat when adding fragments via XML
  • April 18, 2014 Don't let Emulators Kill Your Battery
  • April 10, 2014 Write Code Every Day
  • March 26, 2014 The Strange World of Cable TV
  • February 16, 2014 Before Baby Girl Arrives
  • February 8, 2014 .viminfo permissions
  • February 6, 2014 Locking down Postfix
  • February 2, 2014 Bootstrap 3 Grid
  • January 26, 2014 Baking for Chinese New Year
  • January 20, 2014 On Ansible and Fabric
  • January 11, 2014 Introducing Telix
  • January 7, 2014 tmux + iterm2
  • January 7, 2014 Put That Nozzle Down
  • January 5, 2014 Z
  • January 5, 2014 2014
  • January 3, 2014 Server and a Movie
  • January 4, 2014 zsh and Rake
  • January 2, 2014 Disabling some zsh helpers
  • January 1, 2014 Determine a unique selector with Firefox
  • December 31, 2013 An Exceptional First Post
  • September 8, 2013 Malaysian Curry Puffs (Karipap)
  • August 22, 2013 The Wire
  • August 19, 2013 There’s slow, and then there’s QSL slow
  • July 24, 2013 Facebook, You Win
  • June 10, 2013 “No Such Agency” Those were the days!
  • May 25, 2013 Strawberry Picking at Green Bridge
  • May 24, 2013 Ben’s Poem
  • May 6, 2013 Paris Day 5
  • May 6, 2013 Paris Day 4
  • May 2, 2013 Paris Day 3
  • May 2, 2013 Paris Day 2
  • May 2, 2013 Paris Day 1
  • April 21, 2013 Indian Fare on Sunday Night
  • April 15, 2013 Articles with Editorial Errors
  • February 2, 2013 15 mins Dinner Plan
  • January 13, 2013 Aaron Swartz
  • December 26, 2012 Life post-Facebook, Nine Months On
  • September 15, 2012 DIY Project 1: Understairway storage
  • July 9, 2012 PMP – Done – Checked
  • January 8, 2012 Taking leave
  • December 24, 2011 Back to the Blog
  • December 23, 2011 Chocolate Butter Cake with Brandy?
  • June 4, 2010 Last Post
  • May 12, 2010 Beginnings of a new adventure
  • May 5, 2010 Peoria to Salem
  • May 5, 2010 Bye-bye Peoria
  • May 4, 2010 Last Night in P-town
  • March 9, 2010 urBOOKS.org
  • February 14, 2010 Package from Home
  • January 20, 2010 Freezing Rain
  • January 1, 2010 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 2010
  • December 15, 2009 4 months till Spring
  • November 7, 2009 Parsnip
  • October 10, 2009 Fall at Tanner’s Orchard
  • August 29, 2009 Summer Collection
  • June 20, 2009 Snapdragons from the garden
  • June 16, 2009 Lilac in Spring
  • May 30, 2009 CAT CEO on “Meet the Press” tomorrow
  • May 15, 2009 Debbie Does Disaster
  • May 6, 2009 A fond farewell to Netflix
  • April 28, 2009 DTV Update
  • April 20, 2009 The Peoria Tea Party
  • April 19, 2009 Eggs just right
  • April 16, 2009 Schock & Colbert
  • April 12, 2009 Daffodils
  • April 7, 2009 The Digital Future (looking very retro)
  • March 29, 2009 Spring???
  • March 22, 2009 Spring Is Here!!
  • March 8, 2009 Heed NOAA weather warnings
  • March 8, 2009 My lone flower from NZ
  • March 7, 2009 3/2/09
  • March 7, 2009 Seedlings for Spring
  • March 7, 2009 Twitter found childhood friend
  • March 1, 2009 Reading with RSS
  • February 28, 2009 Garden Redux
  • February 27, 2009 Meet our Pet Squirrel
  • February 22, 2009 Welcome to my garden
  • February 14, 2009 Worst Google Logo Ever
  • February 11, 2009 National Attention for CAT/Peoria
  • February 7, 2009 Name That Movie
  • February 3, 2009 Slowest Common Denominator
  • January 31, 2009 A Sad Week for CAT Employees
  • January 30, 2009 A little Chinese New Year Celebration
  • January 25, 2009 Happy Chinese New Year 2009
  • January 19, 2009 Meet My Nephew
  • November 22, 2008 Pumpkin, oh pumpkin in a can
  • November 18, 2008 Triple a-ha
  • November 9, 2008 Finally! Election 2008 is over
  • November 4, 2008 Pinch Me
  • October 31, 2008 The Dispatch Endorsement
  • October 29, 2008 Just vote for my trucker platform, OK?
  • October 22, 2008 Laugh! (the Dow is down again)
  • September 28, 2008 Too much nature in the backyard?
  • September 25, 2008 Have you had a depressing week?
  • September 20, 2008 Great Idea [Fitbit]
  • September 18, 2008 30 More Years?
  • September 17, 2008 Zeitgeist
  • September 7, 2008 The Pickens Plan
  • September 5, 2008 Do you Freecycle?
  • September 4, 2008 Schocking
  • September 3, 2008 Labor Day Weekend
  • August 23, 2008 Spam Strikes
  • July 29, 2008 Annoyed by endless Subprime Mortgage News
  • July 26, 2008 Peoria in the news
  • July 14, 2008 The silver lining in a Very Crappy market
  • July 5, 2008 Wall•E
  • July 1, 2008 Prius
  • June 29, 2008 Another color of Green
  • June 22, 2008 Purple Cone Flowers
  • June 15, 2008 2008 Steamboat Classic (Part 2)
  • June 12, 2008 2008 Steamboat Classic (Part 1)
  • June 6, 2008 Landscaping our backyard
  • June 6, 2008 Last Post
  • June 4, 2008 Welcome Back
  • October 8, 2007 Farewell NZ
  • October 7, 2007 This Space for Rent
  • September 9, 2007 A Convincing Start
  • September 8, 2007 Downsizing
  • September 8, 2007 Let the Games Begin!
  • September 6, 2007 Wellington
  • September 1, 2007 Napier
  • August 31, 2007 Good Luck, All Blacks
  • August 31, 2007 Taupo
  • August 30, 2007 Rotorua
  • August 29, 2007 A Famous Photo at Last
  • August 27, 2007 Auckland City
  • August 24, 2007 The Storm Before the Calm
  • August 20, 2007 If you had $50 to spare.
  • July 31, 2007 Home in P-town
  • July 10, 2007 Farewell Aoteroa
  • July 7, 2007 Are You Geographically Impaired?
  • July 5, 2007 Farewell Aoteroa : Part 1
  • July 3, 2007 Hanging on by Thread
  • June 13, 2007 Friendly Feline?
  • June 7, 2007 America’s Cup-date
  • June 5, 2007 Nor’wester Big Bad Wolf
  • June 4, 2007 Mum’s visit to NZ
  • June 3, 2007 Things We’ll Miss: Libraries
  • June 1, 2007 The NZ Elite Compete
  • May 6, 2007 “Sunshine”
  • April 23, 2007 Ronald McDonald House
  • April 14, 2007 OExp: Australia Finale
  • April 13, 2007 OExp: Cairns
  • April 4, 2007 Goe azjoe
  • April 2, 2007 OExp: Alice Springs & Ayers Rock
  • April 2, 2007 OExp:Darwin
  • March 30, 2007 Friday News
  • March 21, 2007 OExp:Adelaide
  • March 20, 2007 OExp:Sydney:Photos
  • March 19, 2007 Word of the Day: lahar
  • March 18, 2007 OExp: Melbourne (2nd Stop)
  • March 14, 2007 OExp:Sydney (1st stop:Day 3,4)
  • March 11, 2007 OExp: Sydney (1st Stop)
  • March 10, 2007 A reason to pause, and then buy
  • March 8, 2007 Pictures of Taj Mahal & Bandipur National Park
  • March 4, 2007 Surviving Buller
  • February 18, 2007 Happy Chinese New Year!
  • February 14, 2007 Sunshine in Christchurch!
  • February 12, 2007 Chinese New Year 2007
  • February 4, 2007 Going nowhere fast (er.. at all)
  • January 30, 2007 The Agony of Victory
  • January 24, 2007 Comet McNaught
  • December 31, 2006 Happy New Year, So Long 2006
  • December 24, 2006 Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas
  • December 8, 2006 Backpacking in Auckland
  • December 2, 2006 The Most Powerful News in Aotearoa? I doubt it.
  • November 25, 2006 Kiwi Thanksgiving
  • November 15, 2006 Ohayo Kyoto
  • November 10, 2006 A bunch of crock???
  • November 7, 2006 Happy Mid-term Election Day
  • November 3, 2006 The Dominoes ad you won’t see
  • November 2, 2006 Christchurch Lifestyle
  • November 1, 2006 Fiji’s apparent pastime
  • October 28, 2006 South Island Tour Part 2
  • October 27, 2006 My Visit to Peoria
  • October 24, 2006 South Island Tour Part 1
  • October 10, 2006 Thank You, Ngaira and Keith
  • October 9, 2006 It’s just another nuke story
  • October 8, 2006 Photos
  • October 7, 2006 Movies
  • October 7, 2006 New Blog Format!
  • October 6, 2006 About
  • September 27, 2006 Titanic (or Close Encounters?)
  • September 24, 2006 Sopranos, almost
  • September 18, 2006 Port Hills (I)
  • September 13, 2006 Proof in the Paddock
  • September 12, 2006 The Sky Is Falling
  • September 12, 2006 Update
  • July 29, 2006 Fiji micro-digest
  • July 21, 2006 Friday Treat
  • July 7, 2006 Real skiing just down the road
  • June 29, 2006 My Loyal Companion
  • June 12, 2006 It’s Snowing!!
  • June 12, 2006 Snow Part 2
  • June 11, 2006 How much would you pay for this internet service?
  • June 5, 2006 How much would you pay for this handbag?
  • May 14, 2006 Happy Mother’s Day
  • May 7, 2006 Taming of The Nevis
  • April 24, 2006 Outraged!
  • April 17, 2006 We made it!
  • April 14, 2006 Mulling over Nevis
  • April 2, 2006 Our house
  • March 26, 2006 Skype Voicemail
  • March 21, 2006 So I’m not the only one
  • March 18, 2006 Sporting times
  • March 15, 2006 Photos galore
  • March 14, 2006 Ping
  • February 22, 2006 The Garden City
  • February 14, 2006 A Worthwhile Diversion *** Link Fixed***
  • February 14, 2006 A Worthwhile Tax
  • February 11, 2006 Happy Birthday Angela!
  • February 9, 2006 Road Rules #1
  • February 8, 2006 I’m bored. I’d LOVE to be offended right about now…
  • February 1, 2006 日本からこんにちは
  • January 31, 2006 Flying Solo in Christchurch
  • January 21, 2006 Painful pizza
  • January 18, 2006 C’est La Vie in Akaroa
  • January 13, 2006 Off to Akaroa
  • January 11, 2006 Skype
  • January 8, 2006 My better half
  • January 3, 2006 Finally a site feed
  • January 2, 2006 Go the Utrillo!
  • January 1, 2006 A room with a view
  • December 29, 2005 Belated Blogs
  • December 27, 2005 Suffering buyer’s remorse, as always
  • December 26, 2005 I still don’t know why it’s called Boxing Day
  • December 25, 2005 A Canterburian Xmas
  • December 24, 2005 I’ve heard it’s Xmas Eve
  • December 23, 2005 A Slow Start
  • December 22, 2005 Made it, barely
  • December 22, 2005 Made it, completely
  • December 21, 2005 DFW->LAX
  • December 21, 2005 PIA->DFW
  • December 21, 2005 The final Peorian hours
  • December 18, 2005 A fine farewell gathering
  • December 16, 2005 One by air, many by sea
  • December 15, 2005 An unremarkable day
  • December 14, 2005 Day 2
  • December 14, 2005 Day 2 – Warehouse Bound
  • December 14, 2005 Our new home: Staybridge Suites!
  • December 13, 2005 Day 1 of Moving
  • December 13, 2005 Unexpected Exhaustion
  • December 12, 2005 Pop tart meals?
  • December 12, 2005 Procrastination’s last stand
  • December 11, 2005 This blog is born.
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