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2026 2

  1. Philmont backpack packing list: my deltas
  2. Fixing 0x800f0922 error with Windows 11’s 2025-12 and 2026-01 Security Updates

2024 2

  1. FAQs are bad
  2. Defective by design: Beats Fit Pro earbuds

2022 3

  1. Facebook is abetting intellectual-property thieves
  2. Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice’s corpse?
  3. Blocking unsolicited calls on Skype for Business

2021 6

  1. Bad FC 40 and up soccer team
  2. The Rise of Liberalism in the United Methodist Church
  3. Texas’s group-size limits are also repealed
  4. Email is still the #1 marketing and communication channel
  5. Website scores kill our success, waste our time
  6. You can ignore pro-Trump witness accounts of the capitol insurrection

2020 5

  1. Android is better than iPhone
  2. Installing R on Raspberry Pi 4 with Ubuntu 20.10 (64-bit)
  3. DISD’s busing is a clown show
  4. Reopen Scouting in Texas!
  5. Signing off from the greatest leadership experience I have ever had

2019 4

  1. Dallas ISD to worsen bus service and fix no problems
  2. DISD’s insane bus route proposal
  3. Dallas’s Carmel Car Wash sucks
  4. Adding books to Kindle Freetime accounts

2018 2

  1. Google files: easy to overshare!
  2. Samsung S7’s firmware-version eFuses

2017 1

  1. I-345, Bogeyman of Dallas’s New Urbanists

2016 2

  1. Dallas’s slashed DUI enforcement = safer roads?
  2. US Youth Soccer screws over 1/3 of its kids

2015 3

  1. Moto X Pure Edition (2015) + Sprint = no roam?
  2. OneDrive and 0x80270113 error
  3. OneDrive is throttled and slow

2014 5

  1. Postgres’s pg_upgrade on Windows: the documentation misses a lot
  2. Do projects matter for IT?
  3. Heartbleed = overcomplexity + input validation failure
  4. TxDOT Dallas District to keep speed trap speed limits?
  5. Google is not linking to HTTPS versions of everyone’s sites

2013 6

  1. Sitecore blogging song
  2. Getting high quality graphics out of Quantum GIS
  3. Frequent Sitecore upgrades are good!
  4. FODMAP is NOT about gluten free!
  5. Dallas County Schools bus cameras = profiteering?
  6. Beware of Drupal for enterprise WCM

2012 12

  1. Where most traffic tickets are written in Dallas
  2. Which lanes get the most speeding tickets
  3. Show all Sitecore Active Directory users
  4. Absolve Chick-fil-A guilt with Gay Credits!
  5. Upgrading hardened Sitecore content delivery environments
  6. The challenge of Boy Scouts’s homosexuality policy
  7. NTTA should set 75 mph speed limits
  8. Comparing current data to last time period’s data in Postgres
  9. My meme contribution
  10. My technical diagram
  11. Is Flying Colors Sports’s Great Amazing Race a scam?
  12. Google Maps API V3 geocoding with SharePoint 2010

2011 12

  1. Hiding Active Directory user IDs from WordPress author slugs
  2. Skepticism of the law
  3. Educause: Outsource the Transactional, Keep the Transformative
  4. Design speed shouldn’t block higher speed limits
  5. Left wing tripe
  6. Unwarranted stop sign near White Rock Lake
  7. Texas Senate Republicans violated own party platform
  8. Do projects matter for IT?
  9. Circle 10 Council redistricting
  10. Aren Cambre’s old essay on The Grapes of Wrath
  11. Goodbye Mozy, Hello Carbonite?
  12. Congratulations to Speaker Straus

2010 34

  1. birthornot.com: Domain name suggests hoax
  2. “Soliciting Sodomy” offenses in Dallas
  3. Sheets vs. Vaught debate
  4. Seriously, that’s all Libertarians could do in Texas 107?
  5. Why the United Methodist Church withdrew from the “One Nation” rally
  6. Ubuntu Linux update = reboot?
  7. Doctorate update
  8. Remember Sesame Place in Irving?
  9. TripAdvisor’s inaccuracy and Estes Park’s sucky Mountain Home Cafe
  10. 2010 Colorado vacation top 5 lists
  11. TCEQ begins to relax rules on DFW’s stupid environmental speed limits
  12. When transparency becomes overload
  13. PowerShell’s 248 or 260 character limit path bug
  14. The Social Security Trust Fund is still a lie
  15. Did Forrester Research CEO George Colony really say that?
  16. Advertisements on Massachusetts capitol building
  17. Fascinating San Fransisco streetscape video
  18. WFAA’s Dale Hanson whines about me
  19. I was interviewed by BBC World Service!
  20. Media attention on speed traps
  21. Gift bags, cards, tissue paper–why?
  22. Follow up to WFAA speed trap piece
  23. Alec’s art
  24. Earmark bans are not good
  25. Texas’s worst speed traps
  26. Just bought a new printer
  27. Allen Vaught copies constituient’s email
  28. USPS quadruple fail
  29. The Lancet, research, future of journals, and global warming
  30. My pre-university aspirations
  31. Jack Wheeler’s ignorant health care reform proposal
  32. Drupal doesn’t “get” enterprise
  33. Do we really need Move Over Laws?
  34. WFAA scapegoats Atmos Energy and tries to raise Dallas’s gas bills

2009 48

  1. CNN home page helps US communist party
  2. Why TARP salary caps are good conservative policy
  3. Interesting view of the Texas Republican Platform
  4. BetterPlatform.org: time for a better Texas Republican Platform
  5. Texas GOP’s new web site on kludge
  6. PEAR Text_Diff doesn’t split words on punctuation
  7. Return to Innocence does not feature an American Indian
  8. Google Street View Says I’m Republican
  9. Texaco Star Academic Challenge: Aren on TV!
  10. Doctoral update
  11. Shattery front door
  12. Enterprise Rent-A-Car deletes side air bags
  13. Gallery 3, Windows 2008 R2, and IIS 7
  14. Re: 6 door Ford F-250 work truck
  15. 6 door Ford F-250 work truck
  16. Consumer Reports’s liberal hubris
  17. Democrats are lying about the public option
  18. Why Texas’s Driver Responsibility fees are really a tax
  19. North Korea about to collapse?
  20. Mint.com = fail
  21. Texas GOP’s extreme social stances are a losing strategy
  22. I called it: Microsoft Money IS dead
  23. How I got field diffs working with Drupal, PEAR Text_Diff, and Dreamhost
  24. Today’s Gallup poll on abortion
  25. Swine flu? Let’s call it bacon lung!
  26. This year’s lent fast
  27. 9 reasons to stop Dallas’s convention center hotel
  28. Why Texas Republicans are seen as nut jobs
  29. Does Texas have too many cops?
  30. AIG bonus revolt is political buffoonery
  31. Isn’t that the truth?
  32. Texas Watchdog blows it out of proportion
  33. University Park PD soaks motorists
  34. Lake Park Estates is awesome
  35. Yum
  36. Finally, Palm OS is dead!
  37. Horrific Monday
  38. I baked my son’s birthday cake
  39. One Prius I can like
  40. Texas’s mythical citizen legislator
  41. Trinity toll road: no, it’s not “see, I told you so”
  42. Party gift bags: who invented that crap?
  43. 100 degrees inside, freezing outside
  44. Faked inaugural instrumental quartet
  45. Presidential limo: it’s huge!
  46. Bye, bye 1and1.com
  47. Great great grandfather’s obituary
  48. Pregnant ghost shrimp

2008 71

  1. We have a WHAT ?
  2. I (heart) 90.1 At Night
  3. Texas DPS to celebrate Christmas by hassling motorists
  4. Rod Blagojevich and Moe the Stooge: separated at birth
  5. Sheffie Kadane did the right thing
  6. Debunking my City Councilman
  7. Stop buying, start giving
  8. Auto worker unions are eyeball gougers
  9. Facebook friend categorization
  10. Wikipedia wastes my time
  11. Lies about the bailout
  12. Jeb Hensarling is my hero
  13. Did I get my math right?
  14. Welcome to Chase Bank
  15. WSJ on the “bailout”
  16. Manufactured American financial crisis: all thanks to borrowers
  17. “The law” is not divinely inspired!
  18. Prediction: Microsoft Money is dead
  19. Dallas County loves sheriff revenue patrols
  20. Made up my mind: Shared hosting vs. Roll my own
  21. Dallas County constable traffic patrols have revenue motivation?
  22. Correction about pet shedding
  23. Shared hosting vs. Roll my own
  24. IPv4 exhaustion unrelated to ICANN’s new TLD rule
  25. ICANN finally does something right
  26. Apple likes and annoyances
  27. So much for “it just works”
  28. Industrial Boulevard poll = Dallas City Council looks like dummies
  29. Case for FLDS raid keeps collapsing
  30. Memorial Day treat from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
  31. Greenwashing the Green Spot
  32. American Airlines’s $30 baggage tax: deceptive and dishonest
  33. Nutty inter-blog linkage
  34. Bubble economy?
  35. Bad kitty news
  36. Good and bad kitty news
  37. 1 more year! 1 more year!
  38. Sick cat update
  39. Sick kitty
  40. FLDS raid: looking more like a farce every day
  41. FLDS: illegal or just weird?
  42. Storm hits Plano. Both trees fall.
  43. All done!
  44. Web host comparison
  45. Commuting is not for me
  46. Thanks for ignoring me, Lupe Valdez
  47. Republican Senate District convention
  48. Lent fast almost done
  49. Irving’s new pet tax
  50. Don’t do something, just sit there!
  51. Ceiling is done (but more work to do!)
  52. Eliot Spitzer is shows why Democrats will lose in 2008
  53. SLR is Stupid
  54. Open lunches are stupid
  55. My stamp collection
  56. Switched to Google Reader
  57. Ceiling is wallboarded!
  58. Wired up the den
  59. Ceiling collapse progress
  60. Flu update
  61. Tamiflu is awesome
  62. Ceiling collapse progress
  63. Doctorate progress
  64. 2008 Lent Fast
  65. My nerd trophies
  66. Amazing electrical work in Amory, Mississippi
  67. A little ceiling progress
  68. Ceiling collapse update
  69. The culprit
  70. How to lose 400 square feet in a jiffy
  71. How to force EVDO in Sprint’s 1X zones

2007 41

  1. I hate my car
  2. Radiator replacement post-event fun
  3. Radiator replacement
  4. Wealthy city increases revenue from poor or technologically unsophisticated motorists
  5. Cell phone ban* has huge loophole
  6. Google Maps and Far East Dallas Neighborhood Associations
  7. The Trinity Toll Road won’t flood
  8. Pants size
  9. Vote NO on proposition 1
  10. Kitchen floor replacement = charlie foxtrot
  11. Is lauan underlay really that bad?
  12. Asbestosis and Silicosis–Overblown Fears
  13. Thinkpad function keys randomly pressed
  14. Enormous variance in heartworm treatment costs
  15. Energy Bill Relief
  16. Jennifer’s Wood Badge
  17. Central Texas Musuem of Automotive History
  18. Inn on the Riverwalk
  19. 2007 Summer Family Vacation
  20. A/C Blower Motor Event
  21. Texas fishing license = revenue
  22. 10 years in Scouting
  23. What movie was this?
  24. A/C Fun, Part 4
  25. By the skin of my teeth
  26. Amazing office window view
  27. Oops, I Did It Again
  28. A/C Fun, Part 3
  29. Published and quoted a lot recently
  30. Passionate indifference about companies
  31. A/C Fun, Part 2
  32. A/C Fun, Part 1
  33. Long Day
  34. How Intuit TurboTax Blew It
  35. Fat Daddy’s Burger House = Worst… Burgers… Ever
  36. When speed enforcement gets out of hand
  37. Organic food is bad for the earth
  38. Close-minded liberals won’t win Bush Library debate
  39. Aren’s 9 Diet Rules
  40. Never mind
  41. Roadtrip tire experience from heck

2006 42

  1. Red Light Traffic Cameras: Safety or Profit? (and why Sen. John Carona is a hero)
  2. WordPress’s Mediocre Image Support
  3. Welcome to my new blog
  4. Bad installation instructions on Home Depot’s universal dishwasher connection
  5. New ball valve under kitchen sink
  6. Rigid Dryer Vents Save Money
  7. Final Score: Mice 1, Dishwasher 0, My Pocketbook -1
  8. I am an “Enterpriser”
  9. Rigid dryer vent eliminates minimal fire hazard
  10. Sick grass
  11. Kodak camera “hard drive” disappeared, but now is found!
  12. Workout Change
  13. Latest Spin On Roadway Safety
  14. My childhood kitties
  15. Leadership: where am I going?
  16. Long lost song, recovered after two decades
  17. New blog software version
  18. I Support the Emerald Isle Condo Tower
  19. We have hummingbirds!
  20. You can get a ticket for less than 10 over in Texas
  21. Bad exercise schedule
  22. Event 2274 on IIS 6.0 x64: it was ASP.Net and FrontPage Extensions
  23. Pennsylvania and New York City trip
  24. Alec’s first injury
  25. SCOOP: First 80 mph speed limit sign pictures on the web!
  26. 80 mph speed limits officially approved in Texas!
  27. Ditching ICQ
  28. Google Mail fails again with an idiotic “sender” field
  29. St. Augustine Decline and Palmetto
  30. Stupid products
  31. I am a stud muffin
  32. My weird musical tastes
  33. Coup at political convention
  34. Ditching my Nova SS email handle
  35. Web Email Programs
  36. DSL on the fritz!
  37. Joys of Pet Ownership
  38. The Future of IT
  39. Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Pay Off Handsomely
  40. Doctorate progress
  41. Relandscaping, Part 5
  42. Relandscaping, Part 4

2005 55

  1. Computer crashes were due to BIOS
  2. Computer still crashes
  3. Final note on stolen wedding ring
  4. Thanksgiving Trip
  5. Why can’t the rest of my house be this neat?
  6. New computer working, but another wrinkle
  7. The crook is arrested
  8. Gas Lamps are Expensive
  9. Lost all my exercise data
  10. Theft Update
  11. Computer Update
  12. What is going on with the 832 area code?
  13. Stolen: Wallet, Wedding Ring, and Pocket Knife
  14. Relandscaping, Part 3
  15. Relandscaping, Part 2
  16. Camera Fun
  17. That’s Not Transmission Fluid!
  18. Shotgun Tree Trimming
  19. My Old Nova, 1 Year Later
  20. Driving Should Be A Right (and Why Pennsylvania Sucks)
  21. Illegal Speed Limits on Future North Texas Tollways
  22. Bush Not Responsible For Katrina SNAFUs
  23. Questioning the rebuilding of New Orleans
  24. New Orleans
  25. When Will I Get Another Nova? (and Why I Don’t Like SUVs)
  26. Front Yard Re-Landscaping Is Underway
  27. Found my old Nova
  28. Don’t Lick My Food!
  29. Las Vegas Sucks
  30. June Vacation
  31. More Sewer Fun
  32. Flabulous Aren
  33. Sewer Line Fix
  34. Memorial Day Trip
  35. Email workaround
  36. My email is down
  37. “Open source” does not mean “more secure”
  38. New Kitty
  39. Poor Showing of Anti-Proposition 1 Crowd
  40. Horrible hard drive experience
  41. Vote For the Dallas Strong Mayor Proposition
  42. Nasty Dallas High Five Surprise
  43. Las Vegas
  44. Death Valley
  45. Microsoft InfoPath–promising but flawed
  46. Difficult Nova Decision
  47. Organic crap
  48. Sales Tax Deduction–Don’t Bother Counting Receipts
  49. More comments on fruit juices
  50. Geyser
  51. Soft Drinks Are Healthier Than Fruit Juices
  52. Replaced My Water Heater
  53. The Social Security Trust Fund is a myth and a hoax
  54. Master bathroom shower adventure
  55. Mac mini is Junk

2004 111

  1. How to make money on eBay
  2. They just don’t get it
  3. Nova needed
  4. Scout Locker
  5. RSV Chronicles
  6. Mmmm, Ice Cream
  7. Illness of the week club
  8. Kitty’s trial separation is over
  9. Always underpay hospital bills, always double check “explanation of benefits”
  10. Trial separation
  11. My crime fighting for the day
  12. 85th percentile speed
  13. Good news for Dallas-area motorists
  14. Tavis Smiley and Social Security hysteria
  15. The Dutch have lost it
  16. Regrets and Non-Regrets About My Nova
  17. We got it anyway
  18. I hate car shopping
  19. Stomach Virus and Wood Badge
  20. Wood Badge
  21. More on new car buying
  22. Buying a new car is a poor financial decision
  23. Played dodgeball for first time in 15 years
  24. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!!
  25. Bad Kitty
  26. Incorrect Understanding of Wright and Shelby Amendments
  27. Two Finance Books
  28. Insurance On Old Cars
  29. Flawed Depreciation Argument
  30. Decisions, Decisions
  31. Just tried a Coke C2
  32. Texas’s Speed Zoning Procedure
  33. Impressed with Dallas
  34. Outlook’s Search Folders
  35. Linksys Drivers and Web Folders
  36. Sodded the Back Yard
  37. The Nova has left the building!!!
  38. Not doing the insurance buyback
  39. Grassing up the back yard
  40. Amazing Variance in Tree Service Cost
  41. The Rest of the World Hates Us . . . is nothing new!
  42. eDrop Fraud Continues
  43. America’s Big Picture
  44. Dishonest eBay Sellers
  45. Insurance Mess
  46. Sometimes I get sick of NPR
  47. Very impressive article
  48. Urban Transportation Systems
  49. Raccoon Eyes
  50. I look like garbage
  51. I did it anyway
  52. Got the Nova home
  53. Painted a street light today
  54. Gloxinia
  55. Lubed up my A/C blower
  56. Trash trees removed
  57. “Girlie Man”
  58. Arbitrary Speed Limit Policy in North Texas
  59. Watering the Lawn
  60. Stupid Politics
  61. Slowpoke vs. Enjoy the Ride
  62. My First Video Production
  63. I Hate Gambling
  64. Yucky Eating
  65. Chernobyl motorcycle ride story is a fake
  66. Risky Roths
  67. This is a Dallas Summer?
  68. Aftermath of Netsky
  69. Baptism
  70. First Ever Computer Virus
  71. Michael Moore is a bonehead
  72. Crappy Trees
  73. My Nova turned 250,000
  74. Grammar
  75. Hidden Messages in Programming Textbooks
  76. Geeking at the Gym
  77. Junk Food Junkie
  78. Counting spare change
  79. Ronald Reagan
  80. DEEM is official
  81. Mmm, power
  82. Day 2
  83. Power out in Dallas
  84. I won something!
  85. Corrupt Illinois speed zoning practices
  86. “Yarr” says the evil hard drive
  87. Are gas stoves or ovens more efficient?
  88. Good news on DEEM
  89. I 35
  90. Miles and miles
  91. Wright and Shelby Amendments
  92. Replaced P/S pump
  93. Gas prices
  94. Myths and hoaxes
  95. Deem
  96. EMIS 8363 results
  97. Final Exam
  98. Warning for 16 over the limit
  99. Texas School Finance Conundrum
  100. Kansas Turnpike’s old 80 MPH speed limit
  101. Doctorate?
  102. Does Dallas Suck?
  103. How unsafe are our roads, really?
  104. Shop around for animal care
  105. Intake manifold replacement DONE
  106. Replacing the intake manifold gaskets on my Monte Carlo’s 3.1L engine
  107. Installed dryer vent
  108. Driving with the windows down
  109. JFK Wackos Debunked
  110. Stupid article of the day
  111. First Blog Post