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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"