I've been playing around with Ruby on Rails lately. RoR is a framework for creating clean web applications. RoR has a lot of promise but I'm not yet up to speed enough with Ruby to really knock out apps with it quickly. I keep finding myself reverting to PHP.
My …
The fuselage of my Long-EZ 
I have been working on my single-engine private pilot's license this summer. I'm fairly close to completing it so I've taken another big step . I just bought an airplane. The airplane is a Long-EZ, and am working this next month to finish it and get …
I've been brought into a great startup and we've been doing some amazing things designing and deploying a network for a service that'll go into public beta very shortly. The company is Avvenu, and you can sign up for the public beta which will be starting very very soon.
The …
An angry sea in the foreground, but off in the distance a rainbow decorates the sky 
I had broken my golden rule and I was paying for it! It's the middle of winter and I'm not in the tropics; the first time in four years. It's dark by five, the …
What happens when you get some professional. skaters. a skateboard, a few beers, and a camera all on the same playground?
The premiere skating video of the 21st century!
Skate or Die!
Skate or Die! (5 Megs, 30 seconds)
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Hundreds of protestors or Dozens of protesters? Who knows.
Well the state of the technology industry right now is pretty interesting. All the big bellweathers are adrift; Sun, Motorola, Intel, Cisco.. Some people find that scary, but I think it's an indication that everything is about to change. There's always uncertanty before some new amazing 'thing' refocuses the industry …
Grape clusters 
I spent this Saturday at Dan and Diane's place helping them with their yearly harvest of grapes for their upcoming Cabernet (which I must comment, the best Cabernet I've ever had was from their harvest two years earlier). Dan, Diane, Bernadette, Tom, Teresa, and Carrol spent a wonderful …
Apparently it's okay to be 'trading with the enemy' of our government if you are the government.
Vermont made a 8 million dollar deal with Cuba. But I can't buy a six- pack of buccanero without facing time in the federal pen. That's just jacked to me.