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Mike's BLOG

Sun Jul 12, 2015 DNS, Web Hosting and Email

Mon Jul 6, 2015 Democracy

Fri Jun 5, 2015 Dell XPS-13

Tue May 5, 2015 Kokopelli's Trail

Sun Mar 29, 2015 Phone geek-out (part 2)!

Sun Mar 29, 2015 Phone geek-out!

Tue Mar 24, 2015 Bicycle Review: Fezzari Timp Peak

Mon Mar 16, 2015 Searle's Chinese Room

Fri Feb 20, 2015 Welcome to Cyanogenmod

Mon Jan 12, 2015 HDR Photos: How to Merge

Thu Oct 23, 2014 Updated: Android 4.4 and External SD Cards

Thu Oct 29, 2014 Amazon's App Store Sucks

Sun Sep 28, 2014 CH Flight Controls, Flightgear and Ubuntu

Tue Aug 26, 2014 Minecraft Public Servers

Sun Jun 15, 2014 Measurements: Meier Audio Corda Jazz Headphone Amp

Sun May 4, 2014 Review: Juli@ Sound Card

Thu Apr 24, 2014 Don't hurt your ears!

Thu Apr 3, 2014 Review: Audeze LCD-2 Headphones

Sat Mar 22, 2014 Review: HiFiMan HE-500 Headphones

Sat Mar 15, 2014 Measuring the MOH

Mon Mar 10, 2014 What is a dB?

Mon Dec 23, 2013 Mazda 3 Hatchback

Wed Oct 23, 2013 Putnam Math Challenge

Thu Oct 10, 2013 Acer Tablet Resurrection

Fri Sep 27, 2013 Brains:1, Turing Machines: 0

Thu Sep 26, 2013 How to Multi-Crop Slides in VueScan

Fri Aug 16, 2013 Why GA Has a Reputation for Killing Doctors

Mon Jul 29, 2013 WiFi Hotspots on the Cheap

Sun Jul 28, 2013 Slips, Skids and Spins

Mon Jul 15, 2013 Linux Games with Steam

Sun May 26, 2013 Comfort Bikes and the Giant Via 1

Fri Apr 26, 2013 Product Review: Sturmey Archer S2 Hub

Sat Apr 20, 2013 Saitek flight controls, USB and Ubuntu

Wed Mar 27, 2013 NVidia Quadro 600 on Ubuntu 12.10

Mon Jan 21, 2013 Pros and Cons of my Mac

Tue Jan 15, 2013 The Ideal Wristwatch

Mon Dec 24, 2012 It's not about Gun Control

Wed Dec 12, 2012 Review: Dell Vostro 270s and Ubuntu

Sat, Dec 8, 2012 Ubuntu and Old Webcams

Sun, Nov 11, 2012 USB, Android and Ubuntu

Tue, Oct 30, 2012 Boosting Performance with SSD Storage

Sat, Oct 13, 2012 Hadoop, HBase, Hive & PostgreSQL on Ubuntu

Mon, Sep 3, 2012 Apple vs. Samsung and Software Patents

Sat, Jun 16, 2012 My Ubuntu 12 Upgrade

Wed, May 2, 2012 Thoughts on World War 2

Sun, Apr 29, 2012 Sturmey Archer S2 Duomatic Hub

Thu. Apr 5, 2012 Scratch is Awesome

Tue, Apr 24, 2012 Android 4.X: Ice Cream Sandwich on my Acer A100

Sun, March 25, 2012 Death & Resurrection of a Miele Vacuum

Thu, Feb 23, 2012 Graph Shortest Path in Map-Reduce

Sat, Feb 18, 2012 - UPDATED: 2/23/2012 Caterpillar Game - for Developers

Thu, Oct 27, 2011 - UPDATED: 2/17/2012 Want to watch Hulu on Android?

Sun Feb 12, 2012 My First Android Game

Sat Feb 4, 2012 I Like Boeing Field Airport

Thu Jan 19, 2012 Seattle Snowpocalypse?

Thu Jan 5, 2012 Power, Top Speed and Efficiency

Mon Jan 2, 2012 BlueTooth on Ubuntu 11.10

Sat Dec 31, 2011 Firefox 8: Where's the Java? [ah, there it is]

Sun, Dec 25, 2011 Essential Android Apps

Wed, Nov 16, 2011 Citizens United vs. FEC: Misunderstood

Sun, Oct 30, 2011 Syncing Calendar & Contacts on Linux & Android

Sat, Oct 22, 2011 Upgrading the Ocelot

Thu, Oct 13, 2011 iOS5 Upgrade: Another Apple Horror Story

Sun, Aug 14, 2011 Bench testing sound quality of iPad & iPhone

Mon, Aug 8, 2011 Comparison: iPad and Honeycomb (Acer A500) : updated Fri 9/23

Sat, June 18, 2011 Truth and Lies about the Economy

Sun, May 22, 2011 Rescuing my Workstation (making the leap to Ubuntu Linux) : updated Sun 6/19

Sun, Apr 10, 2011 My iPad Experience: Part 2

Wed, Mar 9, 2011 What makes a good pilot?

Sun, Feb 20, 2011 Cheapotopia - Really?

Sun, Feb 6, 2011 Audio Tube Traps

Sat, Aug 21, 2010 My iPad Experience

Sat, July 4, 2009 Recent Audio-Fu

Sun, April 12, 2009 Today I completed Zelda: Twilight Princess

Sat, April 11, 2009 Amazon S3 via Ruby

Wed, April 1, 2009 Ruby Rails 1-liner Tweak: 10x performance boost

Mon, Mar 23, 2009 Java's Print API

Mon, Mar 23, 2009 Java Swing Drag and Drop in a Tree Control

Thu, Mar 12, 2009 C++ versus Java

Mon, Mar 2, 2009 Death & Resurrection of a Plasma Display

Wed, Nov 5, 2008 Analysis of a CV Carburetor

Wed, June 24, 2008 The ACLU Rocks!!!

Fri, May 23, 2008 Maneuvering Airspeed: Va

Fri, Feb 8, 2008 Flying While Armed

Wed, Feb 6, 2008 Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem

Mon, Feb 4, 2008 LP Record Cleaning Fluid Recipes

Wed, Jan 9, 2008 Voting: Right or Duty?

Thu, Jun 7, 2007 On the speed and format of digital camera CF cards

Tue, Feb 13, 2007 Bass Flute Embouchure

Thu, Jan 25, 2007 Options Trading (diagrams added Oct 2007)

Wed, Aug 2, 2006 On Flutes

Tue, July 18, 2006 Ghost in the Machine

Tue, June 27, 2006 Self Defense is Triage

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 National Security versus Civil Rights?

Tue, Feb 7, 2006 Fun with speeding, traffic lights and relativistic doppler shift

Thu, Jan 7, 2006 Katrina - a debacle or business as usual?

Mon Dec 19, 2005 Voting Themselves Rich: A Solution

Mon Dec 12, 2005 Slavery, the South and How History is Written

Fri Sep 23, 2005 The ACLU: Politics over Principle

Wed June 1, 2005 Shooting Anything Else Makes Me Appreciate My Sig

Thu Dec 2, 2004 Handguns: Sig Sauer versus Glock

Sun Oct 10, 2004 My FAS-2 class

Mon Sep 14 The AWB and the 2nd Amendment

Sat Sep 11 Gun Confiscation in Britain

Fri Sep 3 Does Progressive Taxation Work?

Mon June 14 Interpreting the word

Wed Feb 25 Mayors Wrong on Guns

Wed December 10 Why California Gasoline Sucks

Fri November 14 IQ score distribution & percentiles

Sat August 9, 2003 My Gunsite CCW renewal class

Fri July 25 Where does redline come from?

Sun June 15 Driving the Panoz Roadster.

Sat May 24 2003 What's wrong with liberals.

Sat April 16 2003 It's not about religion; it's about good versus evil.

Fri April 18 2003 Brief observations on politics & foreign policy; nothing ever changes.

Thu April 17 2003 The beautiful engineering of a CV or "constant velocity" carbuerator

Wed April 16 2003 An interesting distributed election algorithm

March 31 2003 How much power does it take?

Feb 23 2002 Review of the movie "American Beauty"