Spaghetti on Snails

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

EZ does it.. the adventures of N620CS

I have been working on my single-engine private pilot’s license this summer

The upcoming Avvenu beta

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

Fort Bragg California

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 ground is frozen in the mornings, and it’s rained for a week.. I was over getting rained on in the Bay Area and I had a long weekend. I was ready to get rained on somewhere else. Not wanting to face travel complications on a holiday weekend I opted to avoid the airports or the roads east to ski areas and instead headed north to Fort Bragg

Skate or Die!

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)

There is no spoon, aparently.

Were there
Hundreds of protestors or Dozens of protesters? Who knows

a bit on bitorrent.

BitTorrent on NPR

and >BlogTorrent

Something wonderful

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 in a whole new direction. I’m not sure what that direction is, but I want to be part of the ‘mosaic’ of that new direction

The vinyard harvest

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 day harvesting this year’s crop then enjoying a few bottles of wine from previous year’s harvests

Enemy of the state.

Apparently it’s okay to be ‘trading with the enemy’ of our government if you are the government