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Naturopathy: the Difficult choice
My girlfriend has an auto-immune skin condition called psoriasis that gives her rashes. For some people the condition gets serious enough that patients and MD’s turn to drugs that suppress T-cells,...
View ArticleHow to Kill a Process on Windows Mobile 5
Here’s a little hacker tid-bit for those of you with phones running WM5. It’s the closest thing to task manager that I’ve found without installing a 3rd party app. If you want to get a list of...
View ArticleTab management in Firefox — my strategies and some requests
Sometimes when I’m using firefox and I open a link in a new window, somebody will ask me "why don’t you use tabs?" I do use tabs, but I use windows as well. I like to group sets of related browser...
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Google Calendar for the 28-hour day
XKCD is a rad web-comic. Today’s makes passing yo-mama jokes while discussing the concept of the "28-hour day." It’s an interesting idea. Six 28-hour days make up a week. 6 x 28 = 7 x 24 = 168...
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Floating on a ton of MgSO4
Okay, not quite a full ton. The Lilypod only needs 1,500 lbs of dissolved epsom salt to make the water dense enough that you can float on it. In 250 gallons of water that gives the solution a density...
View ArticleHow to stop Verizon from selling your personal call records
A warning to Verizon Wireless customers: if you don’t call them to "opt out" they will start selling records of every phone call you make to partners. It looks to me like these "CPNI" data don’t...
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Recovering a RAID Array after Lightning
The EVMS RAID 5 array in my linux fileserver crashed recently due to a lightning storm, and I thought I’d lost everything. But with some luck and intuition I was able to recover all my files. I’ll...
View ArticleHow to protect yourself from DNS hacks
A couple weeks ago, Dan Kaminsky found a flaw in DNS. Without getting into details, this flaw enables a malicious attacker to fool your web browser into connecting to the wrong computer to get your...
View ArticleStupid Prius Tricks – Traction Control Distractions
I love my Toyota Prius. I’m very grateful to Google for giving me a financial incentive to buy a brand new car which does everything I want. It’s totally big and practical, it’s very high-tech, it...
View ArticleSpinning Spaghetti Monster
Last week I went to a different kind of Dork Bot meeting here in Seattle called the Catastrophic Cacophony Workshop. It was a maker-style event where we broke up into teams of people and in 90...
View ArticleRepairing a degraded EVMS RAID 5 array
A while back, lightning scrambled one of the disks in my home RAID 5 array. I figured out how to recover it. And I got the critical data off. Here I describe the steps I took to add a new drive and...
View ArticleRAID repair successful
For everybody who has been waiting with baited breath to hear whether or not the repair of the RAID array worked or not, it did. It took several days, but since we were away on vacation seeing my dad...
View ArticleMoving from Typepad to Blogger
For a while now I’ve wanted to move this blog from Typepad to something else like Blogger. I keep finding more reasons to do this as Blogger improves and Typepad stagnates. Some reasons include:...
View ArticleBlogger file format converter for MovableType / Typepad
I recently blogged about my efforts to move from TypePad to Blogger. My friend Brian pointed out that Google just announced a set of tools to convert to or from popular blog export formats, including...
View ArticleEscape from Typepad to WordPress
It took a long time, but EmbracingChaos has finally escaped form Typepad. About a year ago (just before the end of the previous billing cycle) I started trying to move this blog to blogger. I like...
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How to enable real-time collaboration in Google Docs word-processor
Google recently launched some major improvements to their online document-editing suite. The spreadsheets are faster and more powerful. But IMHO the most interesting change is an update to the...
View ArticleFighting buffer-bloat on DD-WRT
Recently, 20th century software pioneer Jim Gettys has been doing a bang-up job raising awareness about performance problems with the internet known as “buffer-bloat.” The details are technical and...
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Macbook Crashes, Kernel Panics and coping with an Apple “Genius”
So your Mac is crashing a lot, and after a trip to the “Genius Bar”, you’re starting to think maybe that “genius” you talked to is anything but. Is this where you are? If so, join the club, because...
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Mac ‘n’ Cheese Cupcakes
My housemate Ellery created these mac ‘n’ cheese cupcakes for dinner the other night. The frosting is mashed potatoes, and they’re topped with a cherry tomato. Inside is a meatless meaty macaroni and...
View ArticleSorry for the downtime – we got hacked
My apologies that the blog has been down for the last few days. Some hackers got into my PHP and inserted some malware onto the blog. A helpful reader alerted me to the problem within hours of it...
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