Snowgoose sailing with spinnaker on the 2007 Baja Haha 
Much like the sailor tails of yore, I found myself shanghied on a sailboat in a foreign land. This is my story.
It all started at the Baja Haha party in San Diego, which takes place the day before …
In late July I flew my Long-EZ, a homebuilt experimental aircraft, from California to Wisconson to spend a week with friends at a lake house and to briefly attend the Oshkosh EAA airshow. The journey was 1700 miles and took me over some of the most inhospitable terrain in the …
The Stratofox team at Minden] 
As I m sure most of you know adventurer and record-breaker Steve Fossett went missing on a flight in western Nevada on Labor Day. A group I m involved in tracks ameture rocket and balloon launches, primarily via ham radio. Several of the folks on …
This weekend I went to the Make Faire here in Silicon Valley, put on by Make Magazine. make is geared towards folks who enjoy making things with their own hands, inventing and creating instead of simply consuming what's available at the store.
The most amazing technology at the fair was …
Well, web 2.0, for me has a lot to do with making data available in an agnostic manner, wether that be via RSS or via a web services API. Data tied to a presentation layer, such as a traditional website, is data that has no future outside that website …
Last year I wrote an article on building a self-healing network with off the shelf software components. If you are responsible for managing a large UNIX/Linux network it's a must-read...
An excerpt from the article:
_Computer immunology is a hot topic in system administration. Wouldn't it be great to …
Avvenu got them selves some very good press after releasing their music player app at CES. They showed up on Techcrunch which linked to the article Go2web2: Your own iTunes PC! They've even gotten themselves well Digged. Their application allows you to listen to the music on your PC from …
I've been trying to find some project mangement software lately that's compatable with the Getting Real development methodology. For our new 'Locomotive' project I'd love to find a tool where I can set out all the required tasks, and assign an hour value to them to create a timeline for …
Cherie and I are still in Maryland, where we've had a strange winter so
far. So far we've only experienced snow covered roads and icicles
hanging from trees when watching the news in California... But yesterday
we finally got our first snow of the winter.
I'm borrowing wireless Internet access …
California Road Trip Photo 1 
Heya Everyone!
Cherie and I had Halloween in the Castro district this year, but
leading up to it I had the most interesting journey from Manteca, where
we were staying with Cherie's family, to San Rafael, where we were
staying with our friends Sam and …