Brown Recluse Bite (2014-06-28)
I was bitten by what I think was a Brown Recluse spider in central Missouri.

Gregorian Calendar and Julian Day Number (2014-04-13)
To use the ephemerides provided by JPL, a program to convert Gregorian dates to Modified Julian Day Number is needed.

Sillicon Valley Signs (2013-10-13)
I was in Sillicon Valley the week of September 8, 2013 and saw some cool signs. ...

Computer History Museum - Mountain View, CA (2013-09-29)
The intersection of 20th century history and computers is a place of bliss for me. ...

New Boards for the Picnic Table (2013-05-27)
The picnic table was looking terrible. ...

Installing Raspbmc on Raspberry Pi (2013-04-13)
Raspbmc is a Linux distribution for Raspberry Pi that focuses on a port of XBMC to the Pi. ...

Charging the Air Conditioning on a 2001 Toyota Sienna (2012-05-28)
No air conditioning in the minivan. ...

Transit of Venus (2012-05-04)
Venus will transit the sun on June 5 in North America. This is an extremely rare event that will not happen again for 105 years. ...

Technical Arrogance (2012-04-19)
Is it ethical to create something just because it is technically possible? Potentially groundbreaking technologies should be evaluated for their impact on humanity before they are pursued. ...

Persistent Spreading Contrails over Minneapolis (2012-03-13)
I saw some interesting airplane contrails over Minneapolis today. They didn't dissipate quickly like I would expect them to. ...

Replacing a Ford Escape Key Fob Battery (2012-03-06)
Dead key fob! Kind of stinks -- especially since my 2002 Ford Escape only has one door with an external lock. ...

Core Java I/O Classes with Poor Exception Handling (2012-02-19)
I was working on an application the other day that was doing some simple file I/O with JCIFS. There was a rather strange problem -- ...