Tiny Tiny RSS, a Google Reader Replacement
Google Reader is being discontinued on June 30th. This is probably the web application I’ve used the most and for the longest so I was a little bummed when they made the announcement. I …
How Secure is my Dropbox?
The answer to this is: Secure as any other “private” content uploaded to the Internet, which is “not very.” Dropbox is a widely-used service that lets you keep a specific …
Afternoon Chats with the Navy
This morning, I read Claire Vaye Watkins’ essay The Ivy League Was Another Planet about the college application process for an American rural high schooler. Her story was nearly identical to my …
FlickrTrickle
This is a little tool that I wrote a couple of years ago that I think a handful of people use occasionally. To keep up with my philosophy of “if it can be open sourced, it should be open …
Until a few months ago, my Flickr account was still using the same 6-letter password that Yahoo automatically assigned to me in the late 1990s. Most of my other accounts were using a variation of this …
A Little Trip to the Big Island
I finally developed about 9 rolls of film from the trip to Hawaii Meghan and I took back in September. I’ve included a few of my favorites and the rest are here.
All the Cereal You'd Want
One of the first things I remember about college was walking into the cafeteria for the first time and seeing the row of cereal dispensers. The college stocked any cereal you’d want, from the …
Twitter to Flickr, and Back Again
I just got back from a week in Hawaii and only took my film camera. I shot 5 or 6 rolls of film and I look forward to getting them up on Flickr but there are many steps between those 35mm canisters …
Growing up with Guns
I have no interest in guns. I’ve never owned anything more powerful than a BB gun. I’ve never been hunting. Growing up, I was more of an exception to the norm – people around me …
Caleb
In middle school, there was a boy named Caleb who would routinely eat things off the cafeteria floor, claiming it helped his immune system. He never got sick so maybe he was right. During lunch one …