A Tahoe Trip

Meghan and I got back from Lake Tahoe this afternoon. We shared a house in Incline Village, Nevada with her parents and three brothers who had flown out from Tennessee. It was a relaxing week of …

A Train Adventure in Italy

A couple of months ago, my wife and I went on a two week vacation to Europe for our 5th wedding anniversary, splitting our time between Paris, Rome, and Cinque Terre. The first leg of our trip was in …

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 …

Security vs Convenience

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 …