I honestly don’t feel like writing, or making, or creating right now. I recognize this as my normal ebb and flow of creativity. These tidal cycles of expressiveness seem to …

I tend to read non-fiction more than fiction, especially late in the evening, and one of my favorite reading topics is seismology. There are many good books about it on …

A few months ago Eli and I went to the Exploratorium to see an exhibit on automata. I find they tickle my brain in a curious way, which I guess is …

A client’s website of mine had been running fine for many years until a few weeks ago. Certain users of IE started getting this error: “Expected token not present” and …

Here’s how I get the first 20 words using a regular expression and the Javascript replace function. I place an ellipsis at the end to indicate that the sentence was …

I’m playing with a perl Net::Twitter app to see if I can tweet my solar production at the end of every day.

I’ve been playing with Flipboard the past few days and a thought occurred to me. RSS has been replaced by Twitter. Flipboard is a compelling concept… it displays news from …

Jeremiah Owyang switched out a high wattage halogen lamp with an LED version that is only 3W. The LED bulb is expensive, but it will save much more over its …

Tim Mitchard has very interesting photo essay of the sea forts in the Thames Estuary.

This is just one reason to get solar sooner rather than later: Carbon Is Building Up in Atmosphere Faster Than Predicted (washingtonpost.com) “The new statistics also underscore the growing contribution …

OK, this is pretty trivial, but I was wondering how much area would be covered by 700 Billion dollar bills if they were all laid next to each other, say …

CollegeDegrees.com has over 100 tips, tricks and hacks for your Kindle. My favorite tip is how to put your own reference content on the Kindle – I have over 300 …

Prof. John Gallauger of the Carroll School of Management ends his June 3 post on Facebook with a provocative thought: “…look for the inevitable iPhone/Facebook apps to transform the way …

Scripting News will celebrate its 10th birthday on April 1. I’ve always been an avid reader, but the importance of the shift from mainstream news to blogs was really driven …

I haven’t gotten my hands on one yet, but Pure Digital is making a Point and Shoot camcorder that is getting decent reviews. It apparently records up to 30 minutes …

Edward Tufte’s article on sparklines: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_id=1&topic=

Here is my article on fishing from a houseboat on Lake Shasta – http://www.beutelevision.com/thomas/shasta/

I had this one disc of a home movie that I created and burned onto one those cheapo unmarked DVD+R disc – you know the kind that you get at …