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  1. "My email makes me happy"

    I am SO HAPPY to be back to an IMAP based mail system! The thunderbird mail reader rocks. Now I can click on links in my email reader and it does intelligent things; I don\'t have to open up a scp session every time I want to send someone …

  2. "A Nice Day in the Woods"

    Deer in the woods Deer in the woods

    I am currently staying with Mike Taht longtime friend and former roomate in his house in the Santa Cruz mountains. It's amazing to wake up to the sounds of birds chirping and to see deer wandering through the yard. It's a bit like living on Endor …

  4. "The Caveman Diet"

    I once weighed 225 pounds; I had a terminal case of hacker-but. But a simple diet I developed helped me lose the weight and now I'm a much more compact 170. I've nicknamed it the 'caveman diet', because many of the principals of my diet are drawn from how we've …

  6. "A Day in the Desert"

    The Anza-Borrego Desert The Anza-Borrego Desert

    I thought a good way to spend a weekend would be to visit the Anza-Borrego desert, just a few hours east of San Diego.

    One of the things I love about california; you can drive two hours in any direction and be in a completely different climate …

  7. "One parting look; see you next season!"

    Ski slope view Ski slope view

    With the last of the now melting and the close of the mountain to skiing within days it was time for one last ski trip to close out the season.

    Scott, Dustin, and I drove up the night before our mid-week adventure. We spent the evening hanging …

  8. "Power Steering Line Replacement on a Z32"

    Power steering line connection Power steering line connection

    How to replace a power steering line on a Z32 (second generation 300ZX, Twin Turbo model).

    If you notice automatic transmission fluid underneath your vehicle then you might have a power steering leak. If you are lucky (like me) it'll be your power steering hose. If …

  9. "The Last Gasp of the Bubble"

    MP3.com liquidation MP3.com liquidation

    Dustin and I broke away from our chronic under-employment to peruse the last of the great liquidations of the internet bubble. MP3.Com, headquartered in San Diego , was being scrapped.

    The internet business plan... 

    1) Make web site


2) ???


3) Profit!

    MP3.com liquidation MP3.com liquidation Office equipment sale …