Spring Cleanup
Over the weekend I updated my installation of movabletype to the latest release, 2.63. It went without a hitch, and all seems to be working well. Once I was working on the site … Read more
Technology
This is as Close to Snow as I Get Anymore
In 1611 Kepler published what is probably the first scientific review of the snowflake, paying particular attention to the six-sided nature that virtually all snowflakes exhibit. Almost 400 years later, we have the … Read more
Electronic Voting in Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County is facing the issue of secure, tamper-proof, electronic voting. The issue came up recently when the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters recommended that the county acquire touch-screen DRE machines … Read more
Is it Possible: Vote Fraud in the USA?
Sometimes I think like the simple country boy that I am at heart, following the path of least resistance and pointing out the obvious. Let’s see, in my life, awareness beginning in the … Read more
TIVO Upgraded; More Stuff I’ll Never Find Time to Watch
I just finished upgrading my TIVO. (Whoohoo! 🙂 It’s previous, default storage capacity was 9-30 hours, depending on the stored image quality. I can now record 40-150 hours after adding additional storage to … Read more
Random Quotes & Images
I’ve been displaying a random image at the top of this page for some time now. The image is changed each time the page is reloaded. Inititially this was implemented using client-side javascript, … Read more