Ken's notes
March 2012
July 2011
April 2011
March 2011
January 2011
October 2010
July 2010
January 2010
- Banks and S/MIME (and other public key encrypted mail options)
- The Robustness Principal and internal APIs
December 2009
November 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
March 2009
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
March 2008
December 2007
October 2007
September 2007
July 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
January 2007
- On the importance of encoding
- Improved Weather
- Programming Tools
- Winter
- Nintendo Wii and Far Cry: Vengance
- Braving the elements
- Jet Blue
- Nintendo Experience
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
- Three hundred million
- Books and the Sony Reader
- Party like it's 1999
- arrrooooooooooooo
- Single-Click VNC
- Power usage
- EV rally
September 2006
- Plug-in Hybrids
- Tesla Motors blog opened my eyes to EVs
- Flight
- Windows Live Writer (Beta)
- Revenue streams, trust, and (no) privacy
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
- Embedding Lua 5.1 in Asterisk 1.2.7.1
- Victimization ratio
- Upgrading my Debian machine from from Linux kernel 2.4 to Linux kernel 2.6
- [placeholder for winning team]
March 2006
- Baylands in Palo Alto
- Saving time
- Math for programmers
- reading feeds
- Being a software developer
- Dynamic languages and choosing a technology for a project
- RSS updated
- GPX to line overlaid atop USGS Urban Area photo
- SQLite 3, pysqlite2, and incorrected typed data = segfault
February 2006
- Simplifying GPS data to plot polylines
- High bandwidth/quality phone codecs and aural cues in radio programs
- Python Upgraded
- Sorting topologically for friendlier configuration
- Dreamhost one-click upgrades
- Rounded corners round-up
- Access logs and Wordpress 2.0.1
- Feedshot and musing about Spreading out web UI
January 2006
- Stardust movie
- Design of power buttons
- MSR Group Shot
- Updates and photos
- Radio broadcasts from the 30's and 40's
- Happy new year
October 2005
- Is "Good enough" the enemy of "complete"?
- RSS fetcher
- photos.xythian.com and Singleshot
- Awful patches
- Fascinating discoveries
- Housekeeping
- 17 mile drive
- Canon 5D
- Listing Windows shell extensions
September 2005
- Free Perforce
- Reading CR2 and CRW metadata
- Singleshot 2.0.0a3
- Singleshot FastCGI, other development
- Singleshot performance and other developments
- Oops and more development.
- Deployability
August 2005
- Further development on Singleshot
- Broken things
- New photos site
- PHP and ASP
- rawdog RSS aggregator
- Singleshot development
- Importing old posts
- Finally, a plan
- Stop-motion moviemaking with a Canon 1Ds
July 2005
- The Solution to YME
- Dell DJ 30 (continued)
- Where do you get your ideas?
- Baylands walk
- Dell DJ 30 and Yahoo Music Unlimited
June 2005
May 2005
- Tagging in Singleshot
- Singleshot development
- Antec HD Cooler
- SMART, hard disks, and temperature
- Header images
- In pursuit of rotated polaroids
- Windows Media Encoder
- Stitching panoramas from camcorder footage
- Groups
- Software usability
April 2005
- Kung Fu Hustle
- Cheap steadicam-like devices
- Braaaaiins
- Spinners and elastics
- Image effect automation
- Canon 17-85 IS
March 2005
- Engineering yourself out of a job
- Flickr photos
- Greasemonkey in anger
- GDI resource hog
- Book scanner
- thirty two bytes of RAM
- Little victories
- Yahoo APIs
February 2005
- Models for handling multiple concurrent connections
- more comment spam
- A machine retired
- "xml processing instruction not at start of external entity"
- Zipping files is easy, right?
- Wordpress 1.5
- MythTV and backups
- Comment spam ended
- Programming knowledge by language
January 2005
- Comment spam
- Example code and little scripts
- Preferences storage for Watcher
- Resubscribe WOW
- Worker and main thread in wxPython
- Traffic, ODE, a road to distraction
- Debian Sarge on Virtual PC
- UNSUBSCRIBE WOW
- RSS to IMAP, the proof of concept
- Sonos Multi Zone Digital Music System -play digital music from PC in any room
- Watcher's competitor released
- Watcher 1.1 released
- Watcher development - look and feel polish
- Watcher development
- Greasemonkey for Firefox
- Watcher
- Chilling effect of the future audience
- Single-processor speeds level off
- news years day reading
December 2004
- Tool Cruft
- Enigmail, GPG, and Thunderbird
- Bricks and evil
- Getting WordPress to leave code alone
- Twisted wxPython
- Setting up this blog
- Hosting company
January 2004
October 2003
September 2003
August 2003
July 2003
- Blackstone River Bikeway
- Providence
- walk
- Small sky country
- Night shoot
- Up route 154
- First shooting trips with the new gear