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Playing MP3 CDs in a Honda Element EX 6 Apr 2013 | 11:43 am
Rachel really likes her new-to-us Honda Element. I, on the other hand, merely tolerate its many quirks. I was having a unique problem with it the past couple days, so I thought I’d share the solution ...
Time to do some spring cleaning around here 8 Jul 2012 | 03:10 am
I think I’m going to pare down some of the older, less relevant posts and start blogging again. I noticed that there are lots of broken images and corrupted special characters (probably from multiple ...
Gmail scare, Pobox, WebFaction and procmail 6 Mar 2011 | 09:21 am
In light of the recent Gmail bug that wiped out everything for a couple hundred thousand accounts (which were later restored, by the way), I thought it might be a good idea to set up a hot spare, poop...
The service Google doesn’t know it needs 31 Jan 2011 | 05:34 am
I like using an email address at my own domain. Why? It’s portable. My email address can’t be held hostage by any single hosting provider or ISP. I own the domain, so I can move to a different email ...
Good image hosting is hard to find 16 Aug 2010 | 12:08 pm
Recently, we’ve been trying to unload stuff we no longer need/want onto eBay and Craigslist. Being the meticulous/neurotic/obsessive-compulsive person that I am, I like to provide no fewer than 10-15 ...
How I (might) roll: off-site backups 14 Jun 2010 | 01:25 pm
Knowing is half the battle According to Backblaze, June is Backup Awareness Month, so my timing on this post is superb. Everyone who uses a computer knows (or should know) they’re supposed to be maki...
Google Apps: impressions after 14 months 13 Feb 2010 | 12:00 pm
More than a year ago, I decided to switch my personal email account from Gmail to Google Apps Premier Edition. The logic behind that move is laid out in a previous post, so I won’t rehash what’s alrea...
How I roll: outsourcing critical services 26 Apr 2009 | 09:58 am
Warning: this post is moderately technical in nature. I think it’s the first technical post I’ve done in almost five years here, so I apologize in advance if it’s too geeky for you. I’m trying a new ...
My world-famous hamburger recipe 25 Apr 2009 | 04:44 am
Now that summer has officially arrived (in Tucson, anyway), it can mean only one thing: time to clean off the grill and pile on the red meat. I made some pretty decent burgers last night using my time...
2008 year in review 6 Jan 2009 | 10:06 am
We’re already almost a week into 2009, so I thought it would be appropriate to look back and remember all the things that happened in 2008. It seems like not so long ago when I was doing the same thin...
