Ken's Notes

2013

• MAVEN launch

2012

• Bootstrap 2.0-based design
• tmux and Optimal Layout
• Watching my Twitter Userstream

2011

• New site
• Media backups and workflow
• Mock service dependencies
• Communicating in code
• Make a decision
• Learning debugging
• Learning Programming

2010

• Cross-platform user experience
• WriteMonkey, WriteRoom, and alternativeto.net
• Infopads, smartphones, and information
• Banks and S/MIME (and other public key encrypted mail options)
• The Robustness Principal and internal APIs

2009

• Thunderbird 3
• Cineform NeoScene, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, 5D mark II, and Timecode.cpp
• Credit card security
• Adobe Audition 3, Windows Vista 64, and running as Administrator
• Asterisk (Still)
• Asterisk, again
• Python and libyahoo2, take 2
• Ubuntu 9.04 and python-virtualenv
• Singleshot and Git and first steps

2008

• Pyrex and libyahoo2 (or not)
• VirtualBox 2.0.0
• Saving power on Intel/Linux
• Idea: Visualize wikipedia trails
• Soft word wrap in Emacs
• Lightroom 2
• Virtual Box
• TiVo is fired
• Upgrade
• Product upgrades

2007

• Breaking links and feeds
• It's All Text, Firefox extension
• python-cdb 0.32 (-5.2ubuntu2) with Python 2.5 causes double-free corruption crash on dealloc
• Microsoft Photo Info
• Flex, [Java|Action]Script
• Adobe Contribute
• Logitech MX Revolution
• Tools and libraries
• Live Free or Die Hard
• Magic Ink
• "Ad Supported"
• Dell, DHL, everybody loses
• wx.lib.iewin and NewWindow3
• live data
• Readshot
• SOn markers and Singleshot
• On the importance of encoding
• Improved Weather
• Programming Tools
• Winter
• Nintendo Wii and Far Cry: Vengance
• Braving the elements
• Jet Blue
• Nintendo Experience

2006

• CorelDraw 12 (and X3, and probably other versions) crashing with TweakUI
• holiday family photos
• Comcast DVR, continued
• Comcast DVR
• Comments
• Three hundred million
• Books and the Sony Reader
• Party like it's 1999
• arrrooooooooooooo
• Single-Click VNC
• Power usage
• EV rally
• Plug-in Hybrids
• Tesla Motors blog opened my eyes to EVs
• Flight
• Windows Live Writer (Beta)
• Revenue streams, trust, and (no) privacy
• Endicia, DAZzle, automation
• Crashing Xen
• Xen and restoring state
• Xen
• Log analysis with Python, SQLite, and matplotlib
• Automating a little bit
• VMWare
• like watching a movie
• Nuke and Pave
• 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]
• 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
• 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
• Stardust movie
• Design of power buttons
• MSR Group Shot
• Updates and photos
• Radio broadcasts from the 30's and 40's
• Happy new year

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
• 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
• 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
• The Solution to YME
• Dell DJ 30 (continued)
• Where do you get your ideas?
• Baylands walk
• Dell DJ 30 and Yahoo Music Unlimited
• Sensor dust
• What?
• Yahoo Media Engine and media keyboards
• image processing tools
• 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
• Kung Fu Hustle
• Cheap steadicam-like devices
• Braaaaiins
• Spinners and elastics
• Image effect automation
• Canon 17-85 IS
• 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
• 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
• 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

2004

• Tool Cruft
• Enigmail, GPG, and Thunderbird
• Bricks and evil
• Getting WordPress to leave code alone
• Twisted wxPython
• Setting up this blog
• Hosting company
• Singleshot

2003

• Canon 100mm f2.8 USM
• Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
• Santa Barbara Courthouse
• Refugio to El Capitán and back again
• Blackstone River Bikeway
• Providence
• walk
• Small sky country
• Night shoot
• Up route 154
• First shooting trips with the new gear

2000

• To San Luis Obispo and back again