Posts on Jim Kalafut

Good TV Intros

Mon, 19 May 2025 05:10:55 +0000

I don’t watch much TV these days. I used to watch more, and have found that good intro/title sequences hold as many memories for me as the show.

I remember dozens of fun (Friends), catchy (The Jeffersons), cool (Knight Rider, Airwolf, Hawaii Five O) themes from earlier, but the best intros are a bit more recent and manage to capture the vibe of a whole show in under two minutes.

It wasn’t easy to pare it down to five, nor rank them, but here are mine:

Happy 31st Birthday, Jar of Flies

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:06:00 +0000

Alice in Chains’ Jar of Flies is one of my all time favorites! It reliably teleports me back the mid-90s, living in Lübeck, Germany. A completely different life.

LLM Use In 2025

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:00:00 +0000

The AI hype is real, and so are the AI benefits. I started using AI coding tools during the early days of GitHub Copilot and haven’t looked back. They’ve only gotten better in all respects. In 2024, there was a big surge in interest in Cursor, and I, too, used it up until recently. The functionality truly is amazing—almost creepily so. Only a year ago, you’d have to explicitly ask the AI what you wanted. Now, I can open a brand-new file, and Cursor will often provide the right bit of code based simply on what I’ve been working on recently. For things I’m not super familiar with, such as Tailwind, the productivity increase is probably 50x. I can give it an image of something and simply say, “Make this using HTML and Tailwind,” and it gets reasonably close.

How to Watch "Battlestar Galactica" (Preserved)

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:51:10 +0000

The article below is NOT my creation. I’ve been searching for an abridged watch/rewatch guide for “Battlestar Galactica” without much success finding one. Months after I started a discussion on Reddit, someone replied with a link to a real gem of a guide from Choire Sicha on the now-defunct The Awl. The page lives on in the Internet Archive, but I wanted to make it a bit more discoverable for folks since crawlers probably won’t surface it. The only edits are light formatting.

Should've AUTOINCREMENTed

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 06:26:14 +0000

The SQLite docs steer you away from AUTOINCREMENT:

The AUTOINCREMENT keyword imposes extra CPU, memory, disk space, and disk I/O overhead and should be avoided if not strictly needed. It is usually not needed.

The short version of not using AUTOINCREMENT is that primary keys can be reused following their deletion. And the problems with not properly accounting for this just bit me. In my case, a cache in my app was referencing a user ID, which meant that following a user deletion and creation, the old cache data was associated with the new user 😬. Fortunately in this case it just meant a performance degradation (other guards rejected the cache hit), but it could have been worse.

Living under the Thunderbolt 1000

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:51:13 +0000

Behold the Thunderbolt 1000 siren:

Midwesterners of a certain age will feel their blood run cold when its blower motor winds up and the siren starts blaring. I grew up in the 90s in Naperville, IL, less than 300’ from one of these. Here’s exactly where it was perched, now featuring a different siren: Google Streeview

I don’t know what the new one sounds like.

The sound really was the stuff of nightmares—my nightmares! Tornado threats loomed large in my youth, and on multiple occasions I ended up driving through their aftermath (Barneveld, Plainfield). For a while, I had recurring tornado nightmares, and this siren always featured prominently. This makes sense since they’d run siren tests every month (oh, it’s that Tuesday), and apparently still do.

Fossil SCM (again)

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:48:38 +0000

I’ve been intrigued by Fossil SCM and have written about it a couple of times (2016, 2015). The idea of a bundled solution for source control, ticketing, UI, etc., is appealing, so I’ve wanted to find a good opportunity to use Fossil in earnest. Plus, I’m a big SQLite fan, and that is inextricably linked to Fossil both as the storage subsystem, and that they’re from the same team.

Late last year, I had the perfect project for it. Because it was going to be a closed source, there were none of the issues associated with it not being on GitHub. Furthermore, it was a good-sized project involving both a backend server component and a mobile app, and would benefit from consolidated management of source and project materials. It had been about 8 years since I last took a look at Fossil, and I was eager to see how it had changed.

Premature Architecture

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:47:54 +0000

A few months ago, I started learning Flutter to build an app I’d been thinking about for a while. I joined the various Flutter-centric communities and followed developers who were active in the space. Overall, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed both the framework and the community dialog. But one element jumped out right away: a tremendous amount of material put out in social media and spammy Medium posts bikeshedding over what I considered “big software” topics like architecture. I was taken aback since most of the Flutter usage was for building a mobile app, and it was often done by a single developer. Whatever gets these people over the finish line is what they needed, so all this Architecture discussion seemed like quite a distraction. There has been some pushback, for example, this excellent tweet thread:

Intrinsic Value of My Non-Asian Upwork Account

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:31:01 +0000

This email request is headed right to the Spam bin, but it was nonetheless interesting to see how the flattening of the world continues to take place, how rates level out, how folks work around regional imbalances, etc.:

I’m XXX from China and I found you on GitHub. As a full-stack web developer, I have worked in my local company for a long time. But I want to work as a freelancer on Upwork using the European Upwork account now.

Truth Social: Bizarro World

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:30:44 +0000

Most of the online places I visit are politically left-leaning. But I’m usually there for the content quality instead of the political persuasion. For example, the NYT is undeniably left-biased, but they do have news with extensive reporting and a lot of data and supporting references. When I visit Fox News, it is mostly just ads for catheters and testosterone therapy, plus some salacious Hollywood gossip. Even the comments complain about how little news is there. (Note: I’m specifically talking about the website. A select few Fox TV programs are pretty good.)

Taking an SQL query from 2s to 4ms

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:46:05 +0000

I don’t write much SQL and I rarely have to do performance optimization since systems are so fast relative to my data sizes. But I have a homegrown logging system that using SQLite files in the hundreds of MBs that started slowing down noticeably on queries. This wasn’t a big deal for usage, but it bugged me as to why things were slower so I went digging into the offending query:

The Dangerous Life of a Pedestrian in America

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:39:03 +0000

Today, I was leaving the store and what drove by neatly captured America’s attitude towards pedestrians. It was an F350 outfitted with a heavily customized “Iron Cross” front bumper with actual spikes.

The above isn’t the actual truck, which I didn’t catch a photo of in time, but it looked similar (Reddit source). Why is he allowed to drive this thing in public? Easy: because he can.

Given the country’s anemic pedestrian protection laws, someone wanting to drive a dangerous vehicle has wide latitude. We’re decades behind many countries in establishing basic protections and are fighting a pervasive attitude that pedestrians really don’t matter. It’s not just that the US is car-loving, and much urban planning revolves around it. Many folks are outright anti-pedestrian.

Static Hosting with S3 and Cloudflare

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:43:00 +0000

I’ve used both AWS S3 and Cloudflare for a long time, often to deliver simple static hosting with a TLS posture. 99.9% of the time I’m just updating the content, but every few years I need to set up a brand new domain, and this gives me angst.

The issue is that I always recall there being a hangup with root domains, and there are too many articles out there that make this more complicated than it needs to be. My goal is almost always to deliver something on https://mysite.com, not https://www.mysite.com. It isn’t 2000 anymore. But countless blog posts will tell you one or more of:

Sneaky, Boogie Board

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 06:01:35 +0000

Boogie Boards are pretty handy for the kids. They’re durable and the batteries last forever. Well, almost forever. We just had one die and I was dismayed to see “Battery not user replacable“ on the back. Throw this whole thing away?!?

But there were four screws… Small, but Philips head, so I opened it up. A CR2025 battery was propped up, in a holder, ready to be replaced.

I had a replacement on hand, and swapping it worked fine. It looks like the engineers wanted this to be user servicable, designed it such, but just couldn’t say it was.

Spoilage Abounds

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 07:28:54 +0000

I’m one of those people who gets really irritated when even the potential of a movie/TV spoiler arises, and consuming media is becoming very difficult. I just don’t get it. For a long time, reviewers, ranging from professionals to some random author in a forum, respected the rule that the viewer should be able to experience the production fully, with little to no foreshadowing of the plot, if that’s what they want. But today… good luck navigating the news, discussion sites, streaming services, and media platforms.

Happy Birthday, kalafut.net

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 07:22:16 +0000

I just discovered that my kalafut.net domain had a birthday yesterday! It is now 21 years old, first registered by me on 2002-11-02. That’s a long time ago!

Owning a domain has been incredibly useful over the years. I’ve changed email providers multiple times and moved blogs all over the place, but the little piece of internet property that I staked out during the George W Bush administration always remained the same. And now it is even multi-generational: both of my kids have email addresses against it. To be clear, I don’t think they’ve written more than two emails in their lives, but …@kalafut.net is nonetheless useful as an iCloud email address, and iMessage is something they very much do use.

Sorry, NYT, I choose neither

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:43:05 +0000

This is a close cousin to the renewal BS I wrote about previously. In this case we’re cutting back and ending a subscription outright:

I Just Want To Cancel. I don’t want call anyone, and I don’t want to chat with anyone. Amazing that this dark pattern continues to legally survive. Fortunately privacy.com has my back, so having pulled the card now I’ll see these emails every day until NYT eventually gives up on me:

Floss loops

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:54:18 +0000

Flossing is important, as your dental hygienist has no doubt reminded you continuously. I really don’t mind the ritual of flossing, but the actual process used to really annoy me for many years until I found this One Weird Trick.

The problem is that my teeth are quite tight, which means it takes a bit of tension to get the floss between them. Using normal floss this means that I have to have the ends wrapped tightly around my fingers for things not to slip. And to move along the floss as I go, this may mean an enormous length to get the job done each morning. I also didn’t like the little tourniquet on my fingers.

All the Blog Posts

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 05:38:08 +0000

I’ve finally imported all of the previous blog posts (from the other blogs) into the main index. This turned out to be not too painful, since all of the blogs were WordPress so the title and date were consistently placed in the HTML. The goal here was only to bring over those elements and surface them on the main page, with a little stub post that redirects to the original, statically preserved site.

The Scourge of Tinted Windows

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 17:50:51 +0000

Tinted car windows aren’t all bad. Our Highlander has them on the rear side windows, improving comfort and privacy. But tinted front windows are a real annoyance for me as someone not in that car. I don’t recall them being as common as they are now. The specific problems this causes:

I can’t see hand signals. It is common for folks to try to be courteous and signal to convey “you go” somehow. If I can’t see the person, I must try to infer that (e.g., they’re sitting for a long time when it should be their turn). Confusion is dangerous.
I can’t make eye contact. When I’m walking, especially with the kids, I always want to make eye contact with the driver before crossing in front of them. This can be difficult or impossible even with minor window tint depending on the lighting, which makes crossing really nerve-wracking. For all I know, they could be looking at their phone, didn’t see us, and are about to look up and step on the gas.
It is awkward when neighbors pass, and I feel compelled to either wave unconditionally or try to avert eye contact because I have no idea what they’re doing.

Pump It Up, Oregon

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 02:04:24 +0000

Today, I pumped my own gas. In Oregon. It’s about damn time! After the better part of a century, Oregon has finally eliminated its silly no-self-serve law.

I needn’t explain why I’m happy about this, because I already have.

The Subscription Renewal Drill

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:43:20 +0000

It’s that time of year when a few of my news subscriptions come due. That means doing a little dance that saves me hundreds of dollars annually. That I have to go through this routine is borderline immoral, in my opinion. That periodicals will quietly renew for sometimes 5x the “promotional” rate does and should make people’s blood boil. And let’s name these rates for what they are: 1. the normal rate 2. the “can they abuse you?” rate. Fortunately, these shenanigans are easy to bypass.

Pay to Play (Chess)

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 16:08:24 +0000

It is summer break, so it is time to figure out how to keep the kids busy. This challenge has changed over the years. When they were younger, we’d rely on the summer programs offered by local daycare providers, and that would usually cover us for most of the day. Now it is a complicated, expensive patchwork work of camps. These schedules are all over the place, which usually means there are days or sometimes a whole week of downtime.

Today Bankruptcy

Sun, 27 Nov 2022 20:46:50 +0000

Despite my recent critique of Things, it is still my main task organization tool. One of the main views in the app is the “Today” view. This should be my driver throughout the day, but because of how disorganized I am, it can sometimes become cluttered with a large number of aspirational tasks that I wanted to get to, but never did. What happens then is that instead of being an useful tool to keep my day on track, it is a superset of “nice to do” tasks. l then end up pushing tasks around based on what I really want to do today. Not great. And once the list grows long enough, it can be downright depressing to open.

Sherwood Sports

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:08:12 +0000

Last month I released/announced Sherwood Sports. This was one of those simple ideas I’d thought about for a while, finally got going with assuming it would take hours or a few days, and ended up spending at least a couple of weeks on. It took some deliberate effort to actually ship it and not continue fiddling indefinitely.

In this case “shipping” meant announcing the existence of the site on a local Facebook group. I don’t much care for Facebook nor use it often, but there are a couple of things for which it is the only option, and easily getting the word out to our little town is one of them.

My Patience for "Things" is Running Low

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:53:21 +0000

Things is one of the best designed apps for iOS and Mac, and it has been my task management app of choice for many years. I’ve been happy with it, and really enjoy its ergonomics vs. Todoist, which I was coming from. Yet my patience is running low.

Things has clearly been actively developed, as shown in their excellent release notes. Yet I also feel it has stagnated in the areas I care about. There is often healthy discussion around when software can just be considered “done”, and how a lack of new marquee features doesn’t necessarily indicate a problem. My argument to that would be it is entirely dependent on the user as to what they consider “done”, and the vendor needs to communicate their version of the status.

Meet the New Site, Same As the Old Site

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 16:12:14 +0000

While it may look the same, everything to build and deliver this site has changed. Here’s a look at what and why.

I wrote about my blogging setup roughly a year ago, and in that post a couple of key motivations for the move to GitHub were:

Get away from relying on building on Mac and pushing to S3
Leverage the GitHub UI for small edits

There were benefits from the change, but not to the extent I was hoping. For example, say I was out somewhere, took an interesting photo, and wanted to author a brief post with that picture. Doing that without a laptop is not easy. How do I upload the image via the GitHub UI, for example? And then I need to remember where assets go and the correct Markdown syntax to reference the file (which is probably some UUID name). This all felt like way more friction than my WordPress experience 15 years ago.

Create React App Proxy Setup

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A Go/Fiber side project I’m working on needs some interactive elements. I started making some additions using AlpineJS and HTMX, but things grew to the point that I decided a dedicated JS view library would be worthwhile. Usually I reach for the awesome and under-mentioned Mithril.js, but I’ve not visited the world of React in many years, so I decided to start there instead.

I was definitely impressed at how the very first guidance you get is tailored to your needs. I intended to just start with adding a React element to a page, and being able to browser-load both React and Babble (for JSX) was super simple. But I knew that was just a “Hello World” phase and that I’ve have to face the complexity of Webpack, Parcel, Vite or whatever is the rage these days. I wasn’t really looking forward to that.

Monitoring Go apps with Distributed Tracing and OpenTelemetry

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I’m a happy user of Bun and like the work being done at Uptrace. The following is a guest post by them about their monitoring projects. Enjoy!

What is tracing? Link to heading

Distributed tracing allows to observe requests as they propagate through distributed systems, especially those built using a microservices architecture.

Tracing provides insights into your app performance along with any errors and logs. You immediately see what conditions cause errors and how particular error affects app performance.

Fixing Multi-Track Audio Playback for Plex on Samsung TVs

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A much complained about issue with the otherwise pretty decent Plex app for Samsung TVs is that despite giving you the impression that you’re choosing the audio track, the app actually only ever plays the first track. This is very annoying, and not that uncommon with my collection which has a lot of foreign films where the English track isn’t the first item. I played with some of the proposed solutions.

Turning off Direct Play was suggested, and does work for the audio bit, but it causes immense struggle for my little raspberry pi on high bitrate films, so this isn’t really an good option.

A Thorny Cron Permission Issue

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I recently gave the restic backup tool a try and was impressed. To date I’ve just relied on Apple’s Time Machine, but it seems to almost always be backing or cleaning for no clear reason. I found that restic’s scans of the things I wanted to back up completed within a minute. Sold on using it in earnest, I decided to automate it by adding a cron job. This was met with… no backups. The troubleshooting ensued: Y

Anki - Workload Management

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been [using Anki a lot more recently]({% post_url 2022-01-02-anki %}). Previously I was using it with very small decks, and I viewed the scheduling only from the lense of how well I remembered stuff. But as I use it with the kids at high volume, I’m seeing to power of it to manage a workload.

One of the decks we use has over 4000 cards in it. How does one tackle that, and how do you pace yourself? With Anki I’ve found that tuning the limits on the number of new and review cards quickly let us settle on a daily workload that was about right. And with accurate scoring into Anki (i.e. correctly answer its “how did you do?” question), we’re making good progress through that 4000. New cards every day, super easy cards are now up to 2 months away so we’re not wasting time, and problem cards are recurring every few days.

Useful CLI Tools

Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Great list of CLI tools in the tweet and replies, though he could have done without the childish “dated cli tools that suck” flourish 🙄.

Ringing in the new year with WWV

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A couple of years ago I published a WWV simulator. On average it gets about 40 hits a day. I only occasionally review the traffic stats, but did so tonight and noticed an interesting pattern over the past week:

The two taller spikes concide nicely with New Years Eve in UTC (left peak), and then a few hour later with the US east coast (right peak). I like the idea that a few folks decided to use my weekend (well, many weekends) project to ring in the new year. 🎉

SEOpocalypse

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I’m delighted to see. folks. discussing. the sad state of search. I have little to add beyond Amen, 💯, yes the current state is complete shit. Searching for anything will inevitably have me trudging through pages of blogspam and repackaged content. Looking for that Postgres function syntax? Be prepared for paragraphs of:

As the world stores ever more information, technologies such as the Postgres database have become increasingly… 😴 … 6000 words later … gen_random_uuid () 😍

Anki

Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been aware of and have occasionally used Anki since it came out 15 years ago. Some folks are put off by the bare/crude design, but I never cared too much about that. What did put me off was the enormous number of settings, and frustration with it wanting to delay cards to far into the future. But really, I was just lazy to learn the program, which is why I gave up so many times.

Productivity tools in 2022

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to 2022!

A long-ish holiday break and the start of a new year always has me thinking about my current setups. Hardware, software, schedule, habits, obligations, etc. Today I’m thinking a bit about the productivity tools I use and how well they’re working for me. Let’s run through them.

Mail and Calendar Link to heading

This a pretty boring category because it is well constrained and working OK.

Blogging setup in 2021

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t write much here, but I occasionally write something and have done so for over 15 years in various forms. For many years I used a self-hosted Wordpress installation. At the time it was certainly fun to set up, comments were novel, and the interface was easy to use. But once comments basically became a never ending spam magnet, there was little point in having a VPS with PHP and MySQL just to serve some HTML. Since 2010 I’ve bounced around between various static blogging packages. Pelican, Jekyll, Octopress, Hugo… For a number of years I was using Hugo and pushing to an S3 bucket.

sqlc

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I won’t even bother to recollect anything about 2020 on this last day of year. On to something more interesting: sqlc!

Usually my data persistence needs in Go end up being one of:

Raw SQL with the help of sqlx
GORM
BoltDB and wrappers such as Storm
just write out JSON

Of these, the I’m always most drawn to SQL. Once I get past the most basic prototype, I find I almost always want the power of SQL. The problem is that even with sqlx, there is a hell of a lot of boilerplate involved. I then become tired and reach for GORM for a while. I then become irritated at the amount of time I spend learning GORM-isms.

WWV Simulator

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I just released my WWV Simulator to the wild. This is something I’ve toyed with making for a long time, but the threat of WWV and WWH being shut down really spurred me into action. It was a fun project that had a number of unexpected chances to learn stuff:

I learned more about Javascript audio than I ever expected. I thought I could simply play some clips using HTML 5 APIs, and that’s what I originally built, but then I found that it didn’t really work at all on mobile and had to basically rebuild the whole thing using an audio library.
My original strategy of just pasting together audio clips didn’t work out because of the seconds pulses being overlaid at random places. This prompted writing a program to generate the pulses myself, remove them from the original clips, and then overlays the recorded and synthesized audio.
The complexity of the broadcast schedule was much greater than I thought.
It was a great excuse to try out flexbox.

Most importantly, it’s done! These little projects are fun but they do need to wrap up properly, either being officially shelved or published, lest they nag at you for continual tweaks. At 7am this morning I posted the thing to Hacker News and can now be done with it!

Apple Photos Dates

Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The search for an acceptable digital photo management solution is neverending. Sometime I’ll write about that whole process, but for now I want to capture one very annoying and important gotcha with the current system. My current process has photos flowing through Apple Photos since they’re automatically uploaded from my iPhone. Apple Photos is acting as a convenient queue, since the final resting places for these photos are:

an external USB HD
Backblaze (auto backup from USB HD)
Google Drive (auto backup as well)

Once photos are where they need to be, I delete them from Apple Photos.

JSON, MessagePack, Protobuf... LZMA don't care

Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve often come across comparisons between JSON, MessagePack and Protocol Buffers (protobuf) for transfer and/or storage. The conclusion usually ends up being: after compression, it doesn’t matter. But when faced with the choice on my own project recently, I couldn’t help thinking that reduced verbosity on the input could only be a benefit. Plus is just seems only proper to tightly pack integers and binary data, remove formatting that only benefits humans, etc. So naturally I had to try all three.

In Defense of Standalone GPS

Sun, 26 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I started working at Garmin shortly after Google announced the introduction of Google Maps on Android with free turn-by-turn directions. The effect on Garmin’s stock price was severe. Pundits quickly predicted the death of personal GPS navigation devices (PNDs) as smartphones offered a free, superior solution. The introduction of these apps did permanently resize and refocus the PND market, but it definitely didn’t destroy it. And these devices may still have an important purpose in your vehicle.

Single-App Django Projects

Sun, 06 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve never benefitted from Django’s multi-app architecture and find the hijacking of a precious project name pretty annoying. The details and a remedy are described well in Single-App Django Project Anatomy.

I’ve referred to this simple but easily-forgotten process of flattening the Django structure so many times that I’ve finally automated the process described therein in a simple script: django_init

Task Management Systems

Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

One thing I’ve learned from many years of using different task management approaches is to keep expectations in check. It is unlikely that any system or software is going to bring meaningful change to core problems of disorganization, lack of motivation, or just plain laziness. But that shouldn’t discourage one from trying different tools as part of the quest to get organized, get more done, or just get some peace of mind. Something is probably better than nothing.

One Year

Sun, 21 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I’m here to acknowledge that it has been exactly one year since my last post. And that’s all I have to say about that.

Staticizing WordPress

Sat, 21 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I’m very happy to have just ticked off a really old to-do. I converted three old WordPress blogs to static sites:

NZ Life (2005–2007)
Peoria Dispatch (2008–2010)
Peoria Dispatch (Garden) (2009–2010)

These sites aren’t just old, they’re in read-only mode and are virtually never visited by me nor anyone else. They are also precious. They capture their respective periods better than photographs alone, and I didn’t want to import or modernize them, since the design is an important part of the capture. They look today basically the same as they did 10 years ago. But I also didn’t want them sitting atop a complex, self-hosted WordPress installation. Having the content wrapped up in a MySQL database and accompanying folder structure, and requiring a functioning WP installation to even get to the posts, was terribly fragile. Remember: no one is going to these sites, so if they fail somehow it might be too late before anything is noticed. I was amazed they even worked, and that I could log in.

Text-based Taxes

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

It’s that time of year again: I start thinking about how inefficient the tax preparation process is. And this is not targeted at the IRS (though it deserves it), but rather tax prep software. Every year I think, “Why, when there are so few bits of actual data that I need to feed in, does this take so damn long?” I think the answer is that I don’t fit the TurboTax/TaxAct profile very well. I’m much closer to being the guy filling out the forms by hand with a copy of JK Lasser next to him, but I also can’t stand the idea of doing–and redoing–all of that math by hand.

Elm

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I’m in Malaysia for a couple of weeks (Penang to be precise, my wife’s home island). It has been years since my last visit and this is the first time travelling here with the kids. It is also the first time I’ve had two weeks off of work in at least 5 years, so I’m only slowly used to getting used to having a reasonable amount of free time.

My usual inclination is to try to either read a novel (something I rarely budget time for) or learn something new, programming-wise. A lot of projects I want to work on require more than a token amount of Javascript. Back in the apparently bad old days, I would write Javascript and include jQuery. There is substantial pressure to not do that now. I’ve spent the last few years tracking and trying to selectively dive into various facets of Javascript and Framework maturation, but the ROI has been pretty poor. Javascript isn’t my job and all such learning costs precious free time. Having tools, libraries, and transpiled languages fall from favor remarkably quickly puts a real damper on my enthusiasm to learn the next hottest Javascript thing.

Fossil to git

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

A while back I dabbled with Fossil SCM. I liked parts of it but ended up returning to git. During that experiment, I created a fair bit of content in Fossil and wanted to get it out. I assumed this would be easy because I’d used the Fossil export command previously to create a git-fast-import-compatible text file with all of the repo contents. This time, however, I was met with this error upon import:

In defense of DVDs

Sun, 09 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve just re-enabled my Netflix DVD service for the umpteenth time. Streaming is usually enabled (though it’s of dubious usefulness), and whether I’m getting DVDs is a matter of how much time I’m spending on movies at all.

As a general rule, DVDs are the only way for me to watch the movies I want. I use various movie recommendation sources and my wishlist is filled with things that are not available on streaming services, at least not Netflix nor Amazon. As for torrents… They’re usually left for the odd case where I can’t buy, rent or stream the movie anywhere. I have a job and I don’t mind paying for stuff.

Not Missing 'Mad Men'

Tue, 19 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

So Mad Men is done. I’m glad. I didn’t think the show was nearly as good as others did. I started becoming increasingly bored around season 3 or 4. Now I don’t have to think about it.

But this really isn’t about Mad Men, but rather time and entertainment. I watch very little of anything. What I do watch (usually a couple hours per week, tops), has for a long time been a mix of movies and TV series. I’ve seen some really excellent TV in the past few years (The Wire, The Shield, Breaking Bad, Black Mirror, Sherlock, The Fall). But I’ve also started to question the ROI of TV, even for the good shows.

Tribute to a leader

Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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Public speaking

Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Useful, concise advice on public speaking, even for non-nerds.

Practical public speaking for Nerds

Justice

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Federal Judge Paul Cassell, on administering a mandatory minimum sentence to a 24 year old for three marijuana sales:

“If he had been an aircraft hijacker, he would have gotten 24 years in prison. If he’s been a terrorist, he would have gotten 20 years in prison. If he was a child rapist, he would have gotten 11 years in prison. And now I’m supposed to give him a 55-year sentence? I mean, that’s just not right.”

Train Big. Snow Fluffy.

Sat, 07 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I’m usually the last to see viral videos, and even later to pass them on, but this battle of train vs. snow must be shared. It’s so good, Peter Jackson stole the idea in The Lord of the Rings (2001).

It does prompt the question: why do locomotives need windows?

Self-Imposed Sabbatical

Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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Asian Grocery Stores

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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Infant car seats

Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Make no mistake: installing an infant car seat can be strenuous work. You need to achieve a fair amount of compression for the seat to stay put. This will probably require sitting or standing on the seat while pulling hard on the belt strap. If it seems easy, you’re probably not putting the seat in firmly enough.

Besides adjusting your expectation of work, here are a couple of tips I’ve discovered over the years:

Have a Nexus 7? Get the Chrome Beta

Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The Chrome browser on Nexus 7 has never had the Close All Tabs function like its brother on the phone. This made no sense, was annoying, and dragged on forever. Fortunately, the end is near. You can now download Chrome version 40 via the Chrome Beta app on Google Play.

Close All Tabs is accessed by long-pressing the usual tab close X.

A First Look At Fossil SCM

Thu, 29 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I’m in the process of taking a hard look at Fossil for source control. I’d heard of it a long time ago, but only briefly considered it before getting swept up in the rise of Mercurial and git. The only thing that put it back on the radar was a brief mention in some Hacker News discussion, and a recent FLOSS Weekly episode.

I used git daily at work and at home, and I know it well. I like it too, and it’s incredibly powerful. The world has Github, which is both convenient super-productive, so why spend time looking at Fossil? If it was just another DVCS with a different different syntax, I’d probably not stay long. But it’s more that that, and the differences from git are intriguing, so I’m trying it out in my workflow.

RSS? You should probably try TTR

Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

As a long-time consumer of RSS feeds, I was shocked along with many others at the fairly sudden termination of Google Reader. Though there wasn’t anything extraordinarily special about GR for me, it did offer a clean, simple way to browse feeds and have the status sync across devices. Like everyone else, I set about finding a replacement, and was pretty sure I’d find one in short order that met my expectations.

Why Jekyll?

Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I was recently asked why I switched from Octopress to Jekyll. I don’t have an interesting answer, because there weren’t any particularly strong reasons. The overarching goal was that of simplifying. For this blog, the idea of going with stock Jekyll hosted on Github pages is about the simplest way to write and publish a static blog. It certainly isn’t the easiest way to have a blog, but for me, “simple” includes the idea that the blog content and structure is stored simply and accessibly. There are a million hosted blog sites that could have me writing in seconds with zero administration, but then I’d be uncomfortably tied to their platform.

And Suddenly My Best Phone Is Junk

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I bought the Nexus 4 shortly after it came out. I’d been living through a few bad years of the HTC Thunderbolt, which was probably the worst phone I’ve owned. Aside from being a bad phone, Verizon was extremely slow about updates for that device. I recall waiting over a year just for Android 4.0. Making a break from Verizon to a Nexus device sounded great, and having only consumed a few reviews of the Nexus 4, I made the leap.

Passing slices to variadic functions

Sun, 18 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I knew about variadic functions, and the “…” syntax, but I’d assumed that was limited to the function declaration. When I tried to pass a slice of arguments as the final parameter of a call to a variadic function, I got errors. The answer is of course in the spec, but I didn’t find it quickly:

v := foo(bar, baz...)

So “…” shows up again. Here’s the relevant section of the spec:

Yet Another Todo List

Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about writing a todo application. Over the years I’ve used tons of them (who hasn’t), and I’ve formed my opinions about features, behaviors, appearances and architectures for this class of application. Now I want to roll my own.

This is supposed to be a fun project that will hopefully be a useful project. Because it’s by me, for me, and controlled by me, I have thought about how much time will be spent tweaking the system instead of letting the system help me get stuff done. I’m not worried about that though, because I’m always going to tweaking whatever system I’m using at the time–no question. My hope is that my time is better spent improving a product of my own, rather that using that time evaluating others’ work and coming up with schemes to plug things together, move data to and fro, and otherwise smooth things out. It’s a chance to explore new technology, try out UI patterns for real (by using them daily), and hopefully build a thing that is, above all, something I’m happy with.

Brokenmold: A New Hope

Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

My first post to this blog was a little over a year ago. I had hoped to post much more during the year, but that clearly didn’t happen. After reviewing things, I decided the only way to fix them was to change the blogging software. OK, not really. I’ll do no retrospective other than to say that post frequency was less than I wanted.

But, I did change the blogging software! Here are a few reasons why the new setup should be no worse than the previous one:

Hello Jekyll

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I want to move this thing to Github, so say hello to Jekyll. I’m not going to bother waiting for things to settle into their final form before pushing it, so enjoy a bunch of boilerplate Jekyll look, free, and content for a bit. It will at least provide a modicum of incentive to wrap up the migration.

Königspress, we hardly knew ya.

Hello Königspress

Thu, 09 Oct 2014 22:19:55 -0700

Say hello to the Königspress theme. Similiar to Pageturner, but better (and maintained!).

Chromecast and IGMP

Fri, 16 May 2014 23:01:54 -0700

I bought a Chromecast shortly after it debut and enjoyed months of great service. Lately I’ve been suffering through months of crappy service, and have spent a lot of time troubleshooting the thing.

The main symptom: the Chromecast icon would drop off of apps shortly after connecting to them. This was only occuring when I had the device plugged into the TV for some reason.

There are a lot of Chromecast support forums and I tried a ton of stuff the resulting in no change, or a moment of hope followed by disappointment. Tonight I was reading an ASUS forum and just started messing around with router settings on my RT-N56U and found that turning off the 5Ghz radio and turning on “IGMP Snooping” for 2.4GHz has dramatically improved the stability of the connection.

Meet Laura

Mon, 05 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

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Caveat when adding fragments via XML

Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:07:44 -0700

I spent an hour trying to figure our why, after replacing or removing a Fragment, the UI of the fragment persisted (even though subsequent attempts to remove it would fail because it was supposedly already gone).

The answer was finally found at the bottom of the Creating a Fragment lesson.

“Note: When you add a fragment to an activity layout by defining the fragment in the layout XML file, you cannot remove the fragment at runtime. If you plan to swap your fragments in and out during user interaction, you must add the fragment to the activity when the activity first starts, as shown in the next lesson.”

Don't let Emulators Kill Your Battery

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 08:32:46 -0700

Few things on my Macbook Pro consume as much power, and make the whole housing heat up, like a running emulator. I’m doing Android work and an emulator is essential, but I don’t like the power sapping side effects. I could shut it down, but the start-up time is long enough to become a distraction. But I really don’t need to use it all the time that it’s powered up either.

Write Code Every Day

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:33:54 -0700

http://ejohn.org/blog/write-code-every-day/

The Strange World of Cable TV

Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:45:38 -0700

I just installed and activated a Comcast DVR. This was an annoying and time consuming process (Comcast doesn’t really know what equipment they ship you, manuals are wrong, support is hopeless), but the real shock was when everything was done and working.

I’m doing this for one reason: my parents will be staying with us for a little while, and they’re addicted to cable/satellite TV. It they don’t get it, we’ll all be miserable.

Before Baby Girl Arrives

Sun, 16 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

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.viminfo permissions

Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:48:36 -0800

I wondered why my Vim command history wasn’t being preserved between sessions.

Root cause: ~/.viminfo, for whatever reason, was owned by root. I deleted it, restarted Vim, and all is now good.

Locking down Postfix

Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:07:36 -0800

I run Postfix on my VPS’s exclusively to send mail. They’re configured to route mail to Mailgun, and I’ve made sure that they’re not an open relay. I also receive a daily logwatch email and it doesn’t help to have a bunch of this:

Feb  4 18:31:47 alpha postfix/smtpd[14138]: connect from unknown[63.115.40.56]
Feb  4 18:31:47 alpha postfix/smtpd[14138]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[63.115.40.56]: 554 5.7.1 <therichsheickc@
yahoo.com>: Relay access denied; from=<test@live.com> to=<therichsheickc@yahoo.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<[192.168.2.33]>
Feb  4 18:46:31 alpha postfix/smtpd[14153]: connect from client002.c039228.customers.cinergycom.net[69.196.196.138]
Feb  4 18:46:31 alpha postfix/smtpd[14153]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from client002.c039228.customers.cinergycom.net[69.196
.196.138]: 554 5.7.1 <therichsheickc@yahoo.com>: Relay access denied; from=<test@live.com> to=<therichsheickc@yahoo.com>
 proto=ESMTP helo=<[192.168.2.33]>

I had a couple of options. This first is to modify master.cf to deny SMTP access from “inet”. I tried it and it did work, but I didn’t really care for the solution since it didn’t gel that well with my Ansible configuration for the host. The other option was to just lock down port 25, period. I was down the road of re-re-re-acquainting myself with iptables–something I do seldom and immediate forget–and then I came across ufw. The cryptic iptables syntax is replaced with:

Bootstrap 3 Grid

Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:12:49 -0800

If you’ve used Bootstrap 2.x and need a quick introduction to Bootstrap 3’s new “mobile first” grid system, your best read is Erik Flower’s introduction.

Baking for Chinese New Year

Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

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On Ansible and Fabric

Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

It’s very easy for me to become paralyzed by the pursuit of a “best practice”. In some cases there isn’t much risk. Coding conventions, for example. When the world has decided that === is better than == most of the time in Javascript, I’m happy to go along with it. But other areas are trickier. I can easily get really caught up in web framework and database choices. Another area is deployment, but I’ve recently had an epiphany that I’ll decribe.

Introducing Telix

Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:22:41 -0800

A few months ago I started a side project. A few days ago I actually got the thing working in the most basic ways. It is a web application and I plan to launch it as a low cost (but > $0) service. I have a lot more work ahead of me and plan to chronicle issues here. I’m keeping the details wrapped up for the time being, but I’ll say this much:

tmux + iterm2

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:34:40 -0800

Both tmux and iterm2 are great, but the default interaction will have iterm scrolling your entire tmux window off the screen which is probably not what you want. To use iterm’s scrolling within tmux, visit Preferences -> Profiles -> Terminal and check:

Save lines to scrollback when an app status bar is present

Thanks to Dan Carley for this tip.

Put That Nozzle Down

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 20:10:39 -0800

I’ve lived in Oregon for almost four years and love it. It’s definitely a big improvement over Illinois. There are plenty of things that are a bit different from what I’m used to which is part of what has made the move great, but then there are things that are just wrong. Today I give you:

ORS 480.315 - it is in the public interest to maintain a prohibition on the self-service dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids at retail.

Z

Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:19:55 -0800

I spend fair amount of time on the command line, and one of the most useful tools I’ve come across is a little script called ‘Z’. Here’s what it does in a nutshell:

Intercepts call to cd and keeps track of where you’re cd‘ing to, when, and how often.
Provides a z command that accepts a flexible regex syntax and will cd to the best directory based on Z’s “frecency” algorithm:

Frecency is a portmanteau of ‘recent’ and ‘frequency’. It is a weighted rank that depends on how often and how recently something occurred. As far as I know, Mozilla came up with the term.

2014

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Server and a Movie

Fri, 03 Jan 2014 21:57:49 -0800

After a couple hours of fun messing with ansible and node deployments, I think the rest of Friday night would be better spent watching Grave of the Fireflies.

According to reviews, I should be a wreck in 90 minutes.

Update: yeah, it was depressing.

zsh and Rake

Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Octopress offers a ton of useful rake tasks, but they’re somewhat hobbled if using zsh due to globbing. There is an easy fix:

alias rake="noglob rake"

Disabling some zsh helpers

Thu, 02 Jan 2014 19:50:01 -0800

Two zsh features that are usually helpful but sometimes not: globbing, and autocorrect. They’re easily disabled or restricted.

Globbing can be a nuisance with some commands. For example, Octopress offers a host of useful rake tasks such as:

rake new_post["Disabling some zsh helpers"]

zsh will apply expansion rules to this command causing it to fail. To disable globbing for a single command, prefix with it noglob. Or make an alias for a command you never want to use with globbing:

Determine a unique selector with Firefox

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 10:09:26 -0800

I use splinter to automate downloading information from banks and brokerages. It works well. Those sites are usual horribly designed, outdated, and a royal pain to navigate. Suffering through the one-time process of developing a script to automated dealing with them is well worth it.

Usually the script development is simply done by inspecting DOM element ids or names. But some of these bank sites are so bad, you’re left with trying to send a click event to an image buried in a table with little in the way of navigation helpers. In this case, Firefox’s Copy Unique Selector works well. Just inspect the element and access the function via the dropdown:

An Exceptional First Post

Tue, 31 Dec 2013 09:01:32 -0800

In 2005 I started a blog. I was taken in by the blogger.com platform (though quickly moved to Wordpress) and the surge in personal blogs, and it coincided with our big move to New Zealand. The point of that blog was to document and share our overseas adventure, mainly with friends and family. By all accounts that worked well. People liked reading the blog, often left comments, and I very much like having a diary of those years.

Malaysian Curry Puffs (Karipap)

Sun, 08 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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The Wire

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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There’s slow, and then there’s QSL slow

Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Facebook, You Win

Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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“No Such Agency” Those were the days!

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Strawberry Picking at Green Bridge

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Ben’s Poem

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Paris Day 5

Mon, 06 May 2013 00:04:00 +0000

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Paris Day 4

Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Paris Day 3

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:02:00 +0000

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Paris Day 2

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Paris Day 1

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Indian Fare on Sunday Night

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Articles with Editorial Errors

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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15 mins Dinner Plan

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Aaron Swartz

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Life post-Facebook, Nine Months On

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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DIY Project 1: Understairway storage

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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PMP – Done – Checked

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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Taking leave

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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Back to the Blog

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

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Chocolate Butter Cake with Brandy?

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

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Last Post

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Beginnings of a new adventure

Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Peoria to Salem

Wed, 05 May 2010 00:01:00 +0000

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Bye-bye Peoria

Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Last Night in P-town

Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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urBOOKS.org

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Package from Home

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Freezing Rain

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 2010

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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4 months till Spring

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Parsnip

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Fall at Tanner’s Orchard

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Summer Collection

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Snapdragons from the garden

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Lilac in Spring

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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CAT CEO on “Meet the Press” tomorrow

Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Debbie Does Disaster

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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A fond farewell to Netflix

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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DTV Update

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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The Peoria Tea Party

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Eggs just right

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Schock & Colbert

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Daffodils

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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The Digital Future (looking very retro)

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Spring???

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Spring Is Here!!

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Heed NOAA weather warnings

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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My lone flower from NZ

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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3/2/09

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Seedlings for Spring

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Twitter found childhood friend

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Reading with RSS

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Garden Redux

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Meet our Pet Squirrel

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome to my garden

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Worst Google Logo Ever

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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National Attention for CAT/Peoria

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Name That Movie

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Slowest Common Denominator

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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A Sad Week for CAT Employees

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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A little Chinese New Year Celebration

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Happy Chinese New Year 2009

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Meet My Nephew

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Pumpkin, oh pumpkin in a can

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Triple a-ha

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Finally! Election 2008 is over

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Pinch Me

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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The Dispatch Endorsement

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Just vote for my trucker platform, OK?

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Laugh! (the Dow is down again)

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Too much nature in the backyard?

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Have you had a depressing week?

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Great Idea [Fitbit]

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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30 More Years?

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Zeitgeist

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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The Pickens Plan

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Do you Freecycle?

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Schocking

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Labor Day Weekend

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Spam Strikes

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Annoyed by endless Subprime Mortgage News

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Peoria in the news

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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The silver lining in a Very Crappy market

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Wall•E

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Prius

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Another color of Green

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Purple Cone Flowers

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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2008 Steamboat Classic (Part 2)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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2008 Steamboat Classic (Part 1)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Landscaping our backyard

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Last Post

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Welcome Back

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Farewell NZ

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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This Space for Rent

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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A Convincing Start

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Downsizing

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Let the Games Begin!

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Wellington

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Napier

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Good Luck, All Blacks

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Taupo

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Rotorua

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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A Famous Photo at Last

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Auckland City

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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The Storm Before the Calm

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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If you had $50 to spare.

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Home in P-town

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Farewell Aoteroa

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Are You Geographically Impaired?

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Farewell Aoteroa : Part 1

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Hanging on by Thread

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Friendly Feline?

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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America’s Cup-date

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Nor’wester Big Bad Wolf

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Mum’s visit to NZ

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Things We’ll Miss: Libraries

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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The NZ Elite Compete

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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“Sunshine”

Sun, 06 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Ronald McDonald House

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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OExp: Australia Finale

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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OExp: Cairns

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Goe azjoe

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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OExp: Alice Springs & Ayers Rock

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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OExp:Darwin

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Friday News

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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OExp:Adelaide

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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OExp:Sydney:Photos

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Word of the Day: lahar

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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OExp: Melbourne (2nd Stop)

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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OExp:Sydney (1st stop:Day 3,4)

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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OExp: Sydney (1st Stop)

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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A reason to pause, and then buy

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Pictures of Taj Mahal & Bandipur National Park

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Surviving Buller

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Happy Chinese New Year!

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Sunshine in Christchurch!

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Chinese New Year 2007

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Going nowhere fast (er.. at all)

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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The Agony of Victory

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Comet McNaught

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

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Happy New Year, So Long 2006

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Backpacking in Auckland

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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The Most Powerful News in Aotearoa? I doubt it.

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Kiwi Thanksgiving

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Ohayo Kyoto

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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A bunch of crock???

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Happy Mid-term Election Day

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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The Dominoes ad you won’t see

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Christchurch Lifestyle

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Fiji’s apparent pastime

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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South Island Tour Part 2

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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My Visit to Peoria

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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South Island Tour Part 1

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Thank You, Ngaira and Keith

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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It’s just another nuke story

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Photos

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Movies

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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New Blog Format!

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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About

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Titanic (or Close Encounters?)

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Sopranos, almost

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Port Hills (I)

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Proof in the Paddock

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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The Sky Is Falling

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Update

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Fiji micro-digest

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Friday Treat

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Real skiing just down the road

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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My Loyal Companion

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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It’s Snowing!!

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Snow Part 2

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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How much would you pay for this internet service?

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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How much would you pay for this handbag?

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Happy Mother’s Day

Sun, 14 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Taming of The Nevis

Sun, 07 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Outraged!

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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We made it!

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Mulling over Nevis

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Our house

Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Skype Voicemail

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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So I’m not the only one

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Sporting times

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Photos galore

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Ping

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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The Garden City

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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A Worthwhile Diversion * Link Fixed*

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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A Worthwhile Tax

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Happy Birthday Angela!

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Road Rules #1

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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I’m bored. I’d LOVE to be offended right about now…

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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日本からこんにちは

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Flying Solo in Christchurch

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Painful pizza

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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C’est La Vie in Akaroa

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Off to Akaroa

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Skype

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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My better half

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Finally a site feed

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Go the Utrillo!

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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A room with a view

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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Belated Blogs

Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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Suffering buyer’s remorse, as always

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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I still don’t know why it’s called Boxing Day

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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A Canterburian Xmas

Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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I’ve heard it’s Xmas Eve

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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A Slow Start

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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Made it, barely

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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Made it, completely

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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DFW->LAX

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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PIA->DFW

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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The final Peorian hours

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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A fine farewell gathering

Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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One by air, many by sea

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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An unremarkable day

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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Day 2

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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Day 2 – Warehouse Bound

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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Our new home: Staybridge Suites!

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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Day 1 of Moving

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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Unexpected Exhaustion

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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Pop tart meals?

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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Procrastination’s last stand

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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This blog is born.

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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