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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"