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December 2011

  1. Gimp Script-Fu Hacking: Image Spinning and Sprite Generation
  2. Carry On vs. Checking Luggage vs. Listening To Your Wife
  3. Gotcha of the Day: Google Maps setCenter(...) Doesn't Work
  4. One Of My Least Favorite Jobs: Defending Airport Security
  5. The Capital Christmas Tree
  6. A Foolproof Anti-Theft System
  7. Another Moment of Bragging: Running a 7 Miler
  8. Coach's Customer Service
  9. On The Beach
  10. Chutzpah Awards
  11. I Had A Little Dreidel - I Even Won Some Gelt With It
  12. If Christmas Were a Jewish Holiday
  13. All Pumped Up
  14. Enjoy Gift Giving More - Embrace The Wrapping Process
  15. Website I Want: A Political Rorschach Test
  16. Review: Conquering YouTube
  17. Sugar Overload
  18. Gotcha of the Day: Combine rows into a single cell in Excel
  19. Pocket Dump: Winter Edition
  20. Up Close and Personal: Playing with Digital Concepts Macro Filter Set
  21. Dca
  22. Meeting Georgia
  23. Twinners +1 - Visiting the "Fish Museum"
  24. Twinners +1 - Visting the Boston Children's Museum
  25. Gotcha of the Day: Porting a WordPress Blog to Magento's Blogging Plugin
  26. Handy Running Tool: eGear Guardian Strobe Light
  27. Artist of the Day: Carlos Alberto Quadrini
  28. A Moment of Bragging: Running a 6 Miler
  29. Facebook Turns Off Automatic Note Importing, I Cope
  30. Smile, it's Tuesday
  31. Steve Jobs Nails It
  32. Cape Town Travel Gear That Worked
  33. Cape Town Adventure - Day 9

November 2011

  1. Cape Town Adventure - Day 8
  2. Cape Town Adventure - Day 7
  3. Cape Town Adventure - Day 6
  4. Cape Town Adventure - Day 4
  5. Cape Town Adventure - Day 5
  6. Cape Town Adventure - Day 3
  7. Cape Town Adventure - Day 2
  8. Cape Town Adventure - Day 1
  9. 5 Nifty Features of Canon EOS T3i
  10. Worth a Read: Street Photography Tips and Techniques
  11. Latest Home Improvement: Adding a Shed
  12. Phone Friday: 2 Player Reactor - A no brainer game recommendation
  13. Most Dangerous Plugin In the Office: WP SQL Executioner
  14. Tool of the Day: s3-bash - lightweight Amazon S3 access
  15. Review: Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera
  16. Fall In (and Around) Arlington
  17. Ice and Ice Cream - A Fun Day With Kids
  18. Music Source of the Day: SoundCloud.com
  19. Review: E-Z Deck Wash
  20. RTTTL - The Simplest (and Most Hackable) Sound Format Ever.
  21. Agreeing with Bill Kristol - Unusual, but True
  22. Dev Site of the Day: soundjay.com
  23. Review: Science Fair Season: welve Kids, a Robot Named Scorch and What It Takes to Win
  24. Racing for a Good Cause
  25. Caption Me
  26. Fun Photo Friday
  27. Radio Station Of The Day: Club Glow
  28. $5 to a More Scary Holloween
  29. My New Old Bike
  30. 15 Minutes to a more scary Halloween
  31. The Best (and Geekiest) Reality TV. Ever.

October 2011

  1. Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus - One heck of a show on Earth
  2. An Unexpected Gift - A Canon EOS T3i
  3. Gummy Bears as Hacking Material
  4. Georgeous and Easy -- Linux Running From a Thumb Drive
  5. Review: Notes on Teaching: A Short Guide to an Essential Skill
  6. Gotcha of the Day: Scripting a Non-Scripting Friendly Windows App
  7. A Quick and Dirty Method For Laptop Tamper Detection
  8. Tips for Installing Flash Media Server on Amazon's EC2
  9. Gotcha of the day: Emacs SVN support breaks with SVN 1.7
  10. 99% Stories
  11. Pumpkin Picking with a Purpose
  12. Difficult Run, Proving Difficult to Hike
  13. Super Simple Amazon Affiliate Integration
  14. A First Longish Bikeshare Bike Ride
  15. Scribbling with Light
  16. Try It, You'll Like It: Moth Radio
  17. Capital Bikeshare and Adventures in learning to ride a bike
  18. Founding Farmers and a visit to the White House
  19. Upgrading your brain: A quick path to learning shorthand
  20. Review: Sea to Summit Ultrasil Daypack
  21. How Kosher Are Drone Attacks?
  22. The Case for Non-Smart Phones
  23. Rejoicing in the new Linux Journal digital edition

September 2011

  1. To a happy, healthy, sweet and round New Year!
  2. Some Questions To Get You In The Rosh Hashanah Mood!
  3. This should be politically upside down, but isn't
  4. Gotcha of the Day: Auto Notification When Your Site Is Added To The Safe Browsing Watchlist
  5. Taking A Moment For Some Important Bragging
  6. Champions Shootout - Tennis Legends and Lots of Fun
  7. A Full Day In Philly
  8. Gotcha of the Day: Detecting CPU Usage on Windows via PHP
  9. DC United, The Quieter Version
  10. What Data Would You Need to Answer This Question?
  11. The Mystery of UVB-76
  12. The Lesson from The 440 sq. ft Garage House
  13. AIDE - Simple intrusion detection software
  14. Scenes from the along the Potomac
  15. Traveling with the Osprey Porter 46 Travel Pack
  16. Visiting The Twins and Tzipora
  17. Gotcha of the Day: Can't paste into a text field in Chrome
  18. The Show. A Must Watch.
  19. Gotcha of the Day: Opening a Windows Based EC2 to the World
  20. Gotcha of the Day: Streamlining Subversion and Emacs
  21. Review: Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho
  22. The Flying Circus
  23. Explain this Photo - Back to School Edition
  24. Crumbs - Anything but crummy
  25. Tool of the Day: Mongoose, An Ultra Lightweight Web Server
  26. The Waffle House Indicator and one of my own
  27. The Religious Fisherman
  28. Comparing Android Distance Measuring Accuracy
  29. What Programmers Do
  30. The Perfect Contradiction
  31. Some Ramblings on Racket Places
  32. Hiking the Cross Country Trail
  33. Wedding at National Harbor
  34. How Guile (and Scheme) Could Really Win the Language Selection War
  35. Lorton Workhouse and Arts Center
  36. Photon X-Light's Signal Mode
  37. Random Snapshots from a Random Walk

August 2011

  1. ImageMagick - A Google CustomMap Maker's Best Friend
  2. All Curled Up and Nowhere To Go
  3. Open Carry in Arlington - Caption Me
  4. Irene's Aftermath (Or lack thereof)
  5. Phone Friday: Slick Android Feature: Portable Hotspot
  6. Next time your product/software/website/business launch flops, read this
  7. Irene is Already Making an Impact
  8. Irene, Bring It! I'm ready for you.
  9. Thoughts on the Earthquake Response
  10. How'd she do that??
  11. MySQL Tip: My Two Line .my.cnf File
  12. My First Glimpse of the Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial
  13. Earthquake in Arlington?!
  14. The Path To Apple Nirvana
  15. Gotcha of the Day: Bulk Deleting Bookmarks
  16. More Adventures with an Adobe AIR on Mac Shutdown Issue
  17. Review: When Bad Things Happen To Good People
  18. Political Thought Of The Day
  19. What you look'n at?
  20. Randomly Exploring DC
  21. Turning to the Dark Side - Ben's Buys His First Mac
  22. Review: The Next Three Days
  23. A "4 Boys" Triathlon
  24. Going On Vacation Without Going Far
  25. When Toddlers Attack, and other Birthday Adventures
  26. Babysitting Baby Aurora
  27. Virigina, 2011 Democratic Primary Election - Reaching out to the candidates
  28. Gotcha of the Day: Dealing with Yum EPEL Errors
  29. Thoughts On A Server Outage
  30. Review: The Ragged Edge of Silence
  31. Caption Me
  32. Legg Mason 2011 - Hot, Wet and Fun
  33. My Six Legged Friend
  34. Rock Creek Park - Exploring The Big Green Splotch of DC
  35. Ace Mobile Auto Detailing and Wash - Finally delivering on a promise
  36. Your Lawn Is Evil
  37. Funny of the Day: Man'ifying Quotes and Photos
  38. When Actors Make Sense: Matt Damon on Eduction, Rainn Wilson on Taxes
  39. Hey, that's what Mom always said!
  40. Top 10 Lessons/Moments From Our Holliday Lake State Park Adventure

July 2011

  1. Gone Fishing - The Simon Men Have An Adventure
  2. A Debt Ceiling Argument That Makes My Head Hurt
  3. What-I-Carry-Wednesday: Adventures in Car Camping Gear
  4. Review: I Wonder as I Wander
  5. Our Adventure Comes to a Close - Our Foster Placement Graduates
  6. The Reston Zoo: The Little Zoo That Could
  7. Our Special Harbor Sprayground - The perfect heatwave activity
  8. Phone Friday: Morse Code Keyboard - Fun and Useful?
  9. Sleep Karma
  10. Kids Today. Maybe There's Hope.
  11. Lights, Camera, Action!
  12. Politics: You can't always get what you want. Accept it.
  13. Phone Friday: GMarks - Tracking Blog Ideas On The Go
  14. Weekend Project: Build Your Own Predator Drone
  15. What-I-Carry-Wednesday: A Day Hike Kit
  16. A Tactical Quick-Release Sonic Defense System
  17. Guest Blogger Maryn - Who's Behind The Great Spork Shortage?
  18. Prince William Forest - A DC Hike Worth Taking
  19. Vegan Baking Hack
  20. If I Truly Loved My Wife...
  21. Basketball Awesomeness
  22. Obama's Town Hall - Two More Questions I'd Ask
  23. Santorum on Education - This can't be for real
  24. Shameless Plug: GDLStudio.com - Art, Photography and all things Greg
  25. Taming 17,297 Photos

June 2011

  1. Fun with Tyvek: a CPR essentials pouch
  2. Separating Fluff from Substance - What Political Mistakes Matter?
  3. Review: Unstoppable
  4. 13 Years
  5. PSA: Compression Only CPR
  6. East Potomac Park - The Perfect 5 Mile Loop
  7. Maryland Adventure - Blueberries, Cherries and Unplanned Detours
  8. The Garden's First Harvest
  9. The Myth of the Clean UI
  10. The Traveler's Philosophy
  11. What-I-Carry-Wednesday: A Minimalist Mobile Office
  12. How to watch my Dad's brain melt
  13. Why buy a private island, when you can own your own town
  14. Review: The Old Man and The Sea
  15. Best Cell Phone Commerical Ever - Or why I want a Nokia E07
  16. A Brand New Set Of Wheels
  17. Some Statistical Modeling Inspiration
  18. Worst Feature Ever: WiFi Toggle Switch On Your Laptop
  19. Two Web Design Finds: 960 Grid System and Browser Grading
  20. Lessons from a Steganography Example
  21. New Padlock Combo Hack
  22. The Statue of Liberty and Jerry Springer
  23. Florida Keys Adventure - Day 6
  24. Florida Keys Adventure - Day 5
  25. Florida Keys Adventure - Day 4
  26. Florida Keys Adventure - Day 3
  27. Florida Keys Adventure - Days 1 and 2
  28. Looking for Shavuot / Yizkor Services in Arlington, VA?
  29. Meeting Aurora Emma
  30. Phone Friday: My Tracks get chatty, and using AndroidLost
  31. RSAnimate - Using Cartoons To Amplify Ideas
  32. How far can they push the joke?
  33. Shamelessly Plugging My Friend Erin
  34. The $30 Netbook Turbo-Charging Purchase

May 2011

  1. An Appalachian Trail Overnight Hike
  2. Feeling Old, School Edition: All About Filmstrips
  3. The Lubber Grasshopper Defense
  4. The National Zoo Through A 21 Month Old Eye's
  5. Pampers Makes You Go Awwww
  6. What-I-Carry-Wednesday: The Minimalist Diaper Bag
  7. Must Try: Silly Dogs
  8. My Rules
  9. Parent Hack: Keep a clone of your diaper bag in the trunk of your car
  10. Keeping up with R7RS
  11. Clemyjontri Playground - The Ultimate NoVa Playground
  12. Parent Hack: Trim That Straw
  13. Tool of the Day: Houdini for Mac
  14. Twitter Sparklines
  15. Sleep, Precious Sleep. A Bedtime Story for Adults
  16. Gardening Inspiration - AFAC Plot Against Hunger
  17. Ben's 3 Step Plan for Making Your Android G2 Run Really Fast
  18. A Little Lyndon - A Run To Lyndon Johnson Memorial Grove
  19. Trial and Error Gardening, 2011 Edition
  20. Review: O Jerusalem!
  21. Move Over Elmo, There's a New Mouse In Town
  22. Zappos.com - The Ultimate Guys Shoe Store
  23. FosterParentsRock.com - Well Said.
  24. Review: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
  25. I Always Knew Biden Would Save Us All
  26. Almost A Proper Dinner On The Deck.
  27. Random Nugget Of The Day: A List of Famous Lumberjack Nicknames
  28. Review: Wild Cards: Edible Wild Foods
  29. Your Dad Was Cool Before You Were, and Here's The Proof
  30. Review: Traveling Light: On The Road With America's Poor
  31. Things I Would Never Do: Rock Climbing Edition
  32. Review: SmartLENS, Photojojo Fisheye, Macro and Wide Angle Camera Phone Lenses
  33. RedBox - A Convenient Source For Kid's Road-Tripping Videos

April 2011

  1. Traveling With A Different Kind Of Laptop
  2. This Seems Approrpriate For Today
  3. Custis Trail - Another Arlington Gem
  4. What-I-Carry Wednesday: Urban Survival Kit
  5. Some Friday Inspiration: Soccer in a Floating Village
  6. Potomac Overlook Part 2 -- The Sick Day Edition
  7. Path to a Pleasantly Prepared Passover
  8. 7 Dozen for 8 Days
  9. A Crummy Job, But Someone Has To Do It
  10. Gotcha of the Day: Uploading .htaccess files over Webdav
  11. 11 Concepts The Emacs Newbie Should Master
  12. HikingUpward.net - An Awesome Norther Virginia Hiking Resource
  13. Review: Positive Discipline: The First Three Years
  14. Friday Funny: Child struggles with age discrimination
  15. How'd He Do That?
  16. Technology and Little Ones - Finding the upside
  17. Tool of the Day: mysqlreport and its guide
  18. What-I-Carry-Wednesday: The Perfect Portable Snack Food
  19. Best. Bumper Sticker. Ever.
  20. A Tiny Taste of Summer
  21. Not Celebrating Easter, But If I Did, I'd Try This Hack
  22. If I Could Sing Like This
  23. A Night at the Improv

March 2011

  1. Setting up a Short Domain Name and a GoDaddy Surprise
  2. Appreciating the Bic Lighter
  3. What-I-Carry-Wednesday: Emergency Toddler Entertainment Kit
  4. Gotcha of the Day: Google Customer Search Indexes https Content
  5. Artists of the day: Bluetech and Kilowatts
  6. Advice for Getting Through Life's Rough Spots
  7. JSL - Painless JavaScript Optimization
  8. Badass of the Week: Hideaki Akaiwa
  9. Tool of the Day: AutoHotKey
  10. What-I-Carry-Wednesday: Minimalist Camera Setup
  11. See my only complaint about my Dell Vostro
  12. 4 Lessons from latest home improvement project
  13. Gotcha of the Day: Using Mailinator to test AWeber and failing
  14. The Suprising Hero of Purim: The Baking Mat
  15. Friday Funny: Baby vs Nose Blowing and Chemistry Humor
  16. Got a broken car radio? No problem, I've got a radio guy.
  17. Using Technology to Flip the Classroom
  18. What-I-Carry-Wednesday: Pocket Dump
  19. Review: The Shack
  20. A Fort Marcy Hike
  21. The First (and Probably Last) Cheerleading Video On Ben's Blog
  22. An Acela Experience and The Best Dang Vegetarian Food Ever
  23. Hike 2,655 miles in 20 seconds
  24. Review: Predictably Irrational
  25. MP3Waxx - Master Spammers - I have no choice but to be impressed
  26. Firefox Plugin of the Day: FireFTP
  27. Easiest Laptop Setup. Ever.
  28. Phone Friday: The Next Killer App, Kid Goodies and General Mayhem
  29. Gotcha of the Day: MySQL indexing gotchas
  30. The Power of Simple Questions
  31. The Legend of the Mall Ninja in Movie Form
  32. Geiser: Kicking Racket Programming Up A Few Notches
  33. Romantic or Irresponsible? Guess it depends on who you ask

February 2011

  1. Dude, I Got Another Dell. Some Very Early Thoughts On The Vostro 3300
  2. A Little Elisp to Make Emacs and Racket Play Nicer
  3. Phone and Faith Friday: Accessing Tehillim (Book of Psalms) Online
  4. Outdoor Skill: Estimating Distance with Pacer Beads
  5. Batter Blaster - An Ideal Kids Food
  6. A (Very) Low Budget Camping Adventure
  7. The Battle Cry of Leeroy Jenkins
  8. An Enlightening Home Project
  9. A Tiny, But Fun, Adventure on The Appalachian Trail
  10. Gotcha of the Day: EC2 + Postfix + Amazon Simple E-mail Service - Getting all three to play nice
  11. More Zingers and Reactionary Thinking. Ugh.
  12. Tool of the Day: MySQL Query Profiler
  13. Review: The Traveler
  14. Gotcha of the Day: SimpleDB Fails to Deliver the Goods
  15. Some Valentine's Day Links
  16. Something I want: Haptica Braille Watch
  17. Hiking Potomac Overlook Regional Park
  18. How Time Adds Value
  19. Phone Friday: Offline Access to Tons of Kids Activities
  20. Gotcha of the Day: Running a virus scan on an infected computer
  21. A Kid's Take on Retro Technology
  22. Appreciating the Super Bowl - It's all about the player's stories
  23. Super Bowl Highlights (and by highlights, I mean commercials)
  24. The Baltimore Aquarium
  25. Pithy Advice on Leadership and Hand Grenade Usage
  26. Friday Funny: theoatmeal.com
  27. Outdoor Skill: Estimating Distance with a Compass
  28. Francis Ford Coppola's Advice to Programmers and Entrepeneurs
  29. 700 Offbeat Kid Entertainment Ideas
  30. Distraction of the Day: WhenParentsText.com

January 2011

  1. Useful Object of the Day: Dental Floss
  2. You need another distraction, and I have the perfect one
  3. Embracing the Snow Day
  4. Using Facebook in Stealth Mode
  5. TED Talk: Where good ideas come from
  6. My New Favorite Cookie: ShaSha Co's Cocoa Snaps
  7. Through the eyes of a 17 month old: The World's Greatest YouTube Video
  8. A Toddler Airplane Survival Kit
  9. The Tzipora Sara Highlight Collection
  10. Friday Funnies: When Animals Get Chatty, with a Surfing Bonus
  11. Meeting Tzipora Sara
  12. Review: Thunderstruck
  13. America in Handy Quote Form
  14. An Instant, Toddler Friendly, Mobile Acquarium
  15. Google Chrome - Choosing business intel gathering over market share
  16. Gotcha of the Day: Dealing with multiple partions in Windows 7
  17. Icetastic
  18. I Just Flew Into Rochester...
  19. Yet Another Religious Tire Experience
  20. Thinking about Content Licensing
  21. A Terse SQLite API for Adobe AIR
  22. Recipe: Tag Team Stew
  23. The Joy of Mastering New Vocabulary
  24. Philmont Cookbook - Some tasty memories
  25. Phone Friday: MusicGrid - Music generation for babies
  26. A Better Way To Offer Phone Support
  27. Review: America by Heart
  28. Forgetting Math and Other Inspiration for a Good Planning Strategy
  29. Hack of the Day: Making a Free Capacitive Stylus (or, how to use your phone and keep your hands warm)
  30. The Achievement Test: The sanest piece of poltical writing I've read in months
  31. Setting up an S3 backup solution on a CentOS VPS
  32. Old Town though an Old Camera
  33. I've Been Uncled Again!

2010 390

December 2010

  1. A New, New Year's Tradition
  2. A Wonderful, Fantastic, Grand, Marvelous, Howling and Extrodinary API
  3. Riveting Radio: A Fireman's Tale (with a bonus story about kissing twins)
  4. Gotcha of the Day: Surviving Win32/Cycbot.B Virus
  5. Monday Funnies: Courses for Men and Women
  6. Taxis, Kids and Carseats
  7. A Run on Taters
  8. New Wheels for the Weekend
  9. Sarah Palin - Proving She's Queen of the Zinger
  10. It's Never Too Early To Teach Children How To Change The World
  11. Because you don't have to celebrate Christmas to appreciate a Christmas Miracle
  12. Review: My Life as an Experiment: One Man's Humble Quest to Improve Himself
  13. Traveling with the Samsung N150 Netbook
  14. A Simple Idea For Spreading The Truth
  15. Belize Adventure Complete, Slowing getting back to normal
  16. Belize Adventure - Day 7
  17. Review: Three Cups of Tea
  18. Belize Adventure - Day 6
  19. Gotcha of the Day: HP Mini boots to Grub Recovery Prompt, not Windows 7
  20. Belize Adventure - Day 5
  21. Belize Adventure - Day 4
  22. Why You Need To Install 7-Zip
  23. Belize Adventure - Day 3
  24. Belize Adventure - Day 2
  25. Phone Friday: Pastedroid as ultra-lightweight publishing tool
  26. Belize Adventure - Day 1
  27. A Failed Whitehouse Bid
  28. That Socialist Agenda
  29. Gotcha of the Day: Generating a Page of Note Cards from an Excel Doc
  30. How to feel better about the WikiLeaks kerfuffle
  31. Fuel for the Boy
  32. Phone Friday: Putting Retro Camera to Use
  33. A Lesson in Civility
  34. Tis the Season for the Chanukah Viral Video
  35. Iran's Google Earth Discovery
  36. Suprising Unix Feature: Bash Macros

November 2010

  1. Google Font API - Rewriting the rules about web fonts?
  2. Arlington Library Tip: Accessing Consumer Reports Online for Free
  3. Upgrading to Grill 2.0 - The Weber Spirit E-310
  4. Almost as good as that New TV Feeling
  5. Phone Friday: Retro Camera, The cure for Retro-camera-itis
  6. Dragged into the Modern World of TV
  7. Gotcha of the Day: Configuring a PayPal Sandbox Account for DoDirectPayment API Access
  8. Annoyance at the TSA Outrage
  9. Gotcha of the Day: WordPress Auto-Embedding Stops Working
  10. Jumping on the Netbook Bandwagon
  11. Finding and Embracing The Hard Part
  12. Review: Tyrannosaur Canyon
  13. Painful Product Placements, Courtesy of Days of Our Lives
  14. 5 Places Your App Can Store Data That Aren't MySQL
  15. Gotcha of the Day: Getting sitecopy to behave with ssh
  16. Astonishing Astronomy - One Day At A Time
  17. Taking the Dead out of Digital Dead Drops
  18. Bedazzling Bites in Boston
  19. Visiting the Twins, while they're only-children
  20. A Content First Approach
  21. Digital Dead Drops
  22. Tips From The Grill Master
  23. Review: Flip & Tumble 24-7 Bag
  24. The Deck Lives!
  25. A Lawn Service I'd Buy Into
  26. Constraints vs. Problems in the Business World
  27. Review: Little House on a Small Planet
  28. Phone Friday: The G2 isn't Waterproof. Or, How to Surving a Dunking
  29. Rally to Restore Clever Signage
  30. Caption Me - Closeup Edition
  31. Travling with Baby Hack: Dealing with a missing bottle cap
  32. Watching the Bolts Pull Out the Victory

October 2010

  1. Football California Style
  2. Out for a morning walk
  3. San Diego Adventures - USS Midway and The Zoo
  4. When Time Zones Attack
  5. Finally, a Satisfied Air Phone Customer
  6. Rethinking The Day Timer
  7. Under a Perfect Sky
  8. WordPress Quickies
  9. The Music is Good, The Venue Outstanding
  10. Been There Done That: Common Errors in English
  11. Service to watch: Cloudant
  12. 3 Steps to Massively Scalable Web Apps
  13. Phone Friday: Two magical tips for the G2
  14. Foxhole Radio - Quick, Simple and Powerful Project Fun
  15. My 15 Seconds of Geek Fame
  16. Worst Traffic Sign. Ever.
  17. A Software Lesson from the County Building Inspector
  18. Sounds hard, but isn't - Food Edition
  19. Review: Screwpop Tool
  20. Gotcha of the Day: Windows Vista Resets External Monitor Display Settings
  21. Songs of the Night
  22. Review: The Best of Field & Stream: 100 Years of Great Writing from America's Premier Sporting Magazine
  23. Sources for Free Full Length Movies Online
  24. G2 Accessory to Avoid: T-mobile Body Glove Snap on Case
  25. 5 Essentials For Travel
  26. Android G2 vs Lumix DMC-TZ50 Photo Comparsion
  27. Giving Thanks
  28. Mmm, Mmm, Bugs
  29. A Perfect Sky
  30. Bowling, Legos and Egg Sacks, Oh My!
  31. Looks like this trip is going to happen
  32. Why is this trip different than all other trips"
  33. Phone Friday: Very Poor Man's Android Docking Setup
  34. Review: The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
  35. An office with a view
  36. TakeThemAMeal.com - Easy Meal Coordination
  37. Our New Deck*
  38. Review: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
  39. T-mobile G2 First Impressions

September 2010

  1. Rethinking Bookmark Sync
  2. I Will Do This Today
  3. GoDaddy Gets Back To Being GoDaddy
  4. Jumping Into the Kiddie End of the Pool
  5. BlackBerry Going The Way of the Sidekick?
  6. Improving The Boogie Board Tablet
  7. Phone Friday: Relax and Sleep - Creating a soothing environment on demand
  8. WordPress Shows Off Its Elegance
  9. Have Permit, Will Build
  10. Did GoDaddy Just Impress Me?
  11. My Latest Music Creation
  12. Learn Hebrew One Clever Phrase at a Time
  13. Review: The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
  14. Caption Me
  15. A River Runs Through It
  16. Baby Hack: Painter's Drop Cloth as Portable Containment Zone
  17. Yom Kippur Wisdom via Twitter
  18. Review: Travel in the White Man's Grave
  19. The Doctor Critic Is In
  20. Zoning Variance Tip
  21. Gotcha of the Day: Android and iPhone Render Fonts and Images At Different Sizes
  22. My Life as a Restaurant Critic - Lessons Learned
  23. Review: The Packing Book: Secrets of the carry-on traveler
  24. Food Matters - A Chilling Experience
  25. L'Shana Tova!
  26. Learning Nike Style
  27. Bull Run Mountain Hike
  28. Visiting the Seneca Park Zoo
  29. Music Discovery Project - Grandpa Edition
  30. Phone Friday: Google Places, a parent's best friend
  31. Gotcha of the Day: Linksys WRT54G2 causes ssh sessions to freeze
  32. Just Beat It - Online drumming options
  33. Accidentally Starting a Movement
  34. Geek Feed Humor
  35. Automating Resource Cache Busting in PHP

August 2010

  1. Picking Just One Toy
  2. How to feel fragile and small - The Pale Blue Dot
  3. Small Business Quote Of The Day
  4. Phone Friday: uLoops Music Generation - More accessible than ever
  5. Review: The Suvivors Club
  6. Streaming Your Web Surfing Routine
  7. Bagless Travel - Publicity Stunt and Armchair Adventure
  8. Emacs Quickie: Adding up a column of numbers
  9. Man Plans, God Laughs - Baby Edition
  10. Make Gardens, Not War
  11. Hertz Rent-a-Car - Surprinsingly Family Friendly
  12. Weekend with the twins: 17 months
  13. Phone Friday: Tracking My Jogging
  14. A Simple Guide To Simple Living
  15. Gotcha of the Day: Forcing PHP to Cough Up Syntax Error Information
  16. Mind Bending Exercise: The Jug Knot
  17. Tool of the Day: sar and bsdsar
  18. Review: Vagabonding
  19. Phone Friday: 5 Apps I'm Loving
  20. Google Calendar Find: Event time can include a time zone
  21. A United Airlines Customer Service Suprise
  22. Gotcha of the Month: Windows 7 Network Apps Failing
  23. Legg Mason Tennis: Still Fun, Still Hot
  24. 10 Android Strategies To Make The Most Of Waiting Around Time
  25. Artist of the Day: Sade
  26. Handy Emacs Function: url-decode-region
  27. Gotcha of the Day: ProFTP server claims password is wrong when it isn't
  28. Gotcha of the Day: Punching a Hole Through Apache Authentication

July 2010

  1. WebThumb: An Ideal Developer's Tool For Web Snapshots
  2. Blogger for hosting a non-blog oriented site
  3. Gotcha of the Day: Creating PayPal Sandbox Accounts
  4. Public Service Announcement: Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
  5. Just Hanging Around
  6. Caption Me, Multi-Photo Edition
  7. Entertaining, Clever and Sadly, True
  8. Earn the respect, save the money
  9. Power Outage Hack - A Religious Experience
  10. Review: The Art of Travel
  11. Phoneix Bikes - A Bike Shop on a Mission
  12. Twitter as Lightweight Public Database
  13. Didn't see this one coming: iPad Saves Bookbinder
  14. Radio Station of the Day: Covers
  15. Coderless Apps, the Android Version
  16. An Arlington Find: The Sprayground
  17. Doodle.com - The sane way to coordinate events and people
  18. My first earthquake and I ...
  19. 7 Years in the Making, 20 Minutes to Fix
  20. A Dim Memory Comes To Life
  21. Review: Tales of from the Dad Side
  22. Go ahead, try to be a in a bad mood
  23. Pet Store Hack and Doggie Adventures
  24. Irreverent and Inappropriate or Clever and Powerful?
  25. A Trip To the US National Arboretum
  26. Discovering the Secret of Happiness
  27. Artist of the Day: Chicane
  28. The Second Best Use For A Beer Can
  29. Some Backpacking Gear Notes
  30. Review: The Game by Neil Strauss
  31. A Little Backpacking With A Little Boy
  32. The Real Value of Supreme Court Nomination Hearings
  33. Reviews: Gerber Shard and the Derma-Safe Utility Knife

June 2010

  1. 12 years, 1 day
  2. Advertising with Chutzpah
  3. Get Your Daily Dose Of Wimbledon
  4. Seeing The Monuments and Cousins At Night
  5. Two Android Swype Tips
  6. Who's having more fun?
  7. Tracking myTouch 3G Battery Usage
  8. So long myTouch Slide, Hello myTouch
  9. Listening in on the fuzz
  10. Review: If You Walked In My Shoes
  11. Review: Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction
  12. Notes and Thoughts From The Garden
  13. myTouch 3G Slide -- Some Initial Thoughts
  14. Parenting Hack: Loyalty Card as Time Occupier
  15. Punta Cana - Club Med - Recap
  16. Punta Cana - Club Med - Day 7
  17. Punta Cana - Club Med - Day 6
  18. Punta Cana - Club Med - Day 4
  19. Punta Cana - Club Med - Day's 2 & 3
  20. Punta Cana - Club Med - Day 1
  21. Punta Cana - Getting There
  22. Music Group Of The Day: Bajofondo
  23. Friday Funny: Cheesiest 80's Music Video. Ever.
  24. The PHP Template Pattern -- PHP As Its Own Templating Language
  25. Review: Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
  26. Need a recommendation: Auto Mechanic in Norther Virginia
  27. Another Wishlist Hack - Amazon and your Local Library
  28. Gotcha Of The Day: Working with Namespaces in ActionScript XML
  29. Theodore Roosevelt Island - The Perfect Morning Oasis

May 2010

  1. Artist of the Day: Julie Thompson
  2. The Actron CP9410 -- A Secret Decoder Ring for Your Car
  3. Gotcha of the Day - Forcing IE8 to behave like IE7
  4. Douglas Adams - Technology Prophet
  5. The Next Best Thing To Being On The Trail
  6. Gotcha of the Day: Undoing a Global CSS Reset
  7. Review: How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel
  8. John Clements, Tree Expert, To The Rescue
  9. Review: Lightload Towel
  10. Friday Funny: I HATE MY PARENTS
  11. Music Creation Meets Computer Gaming
  12. Fumbling Through Joomla 1.5 SEF URLs
  13. One Method For Making Traveling With Kids Seem Easier
  14. Kitchen Cabinet CSI
  15. The Case Of The Mysterious Green Toe
  16. SEC, Python and Really, Truly, Describing a Process
  17. An iPad Case Review with Sass
  18. The Front Porch Gets A Facelift
  19. YouTube Disco - An Easy Way To Discover New Music
  20. Review: Made from Scratch
  21. A New Apprecation For Mother's Day
  22. Take Me Out To The Ballgame -- For The First Time
  23. Friday Music Find: Best of Trance and House
  24. Living in a gated community
  25. 6 Month Exposures and other cool photograph hacks
  26. Clorox - Advertising That Worked
  27. More With Less - Build Your Own Golf Course Hack
  28. First Impressions: Toshiba Satellite A505-S6005
  29. The Washington Examiner's Bright Spot
  30. Review: Passengers (the movie)
  31. Another Year of T&E Gardening
  32. This Is Going To Leave A Mark (at least I hope so)

April 2010

  1. Review: Playing The Enemy
  2. 34 Reasons To Be Happy
  3. Blogger Widget of The Day: LinkWithin
  4. Speeding Up Windows Login Time - Delayed Startup
  5. Subversion Quickies
  6. Some Friday Entertainment: Picking On Java
  7. More Questions About Women I Can't Answer
  8. Artist Of The Day: ATB
  9. Android App: Crows Flight - Almost the GPS I'm Looking For
  10. 3 New Google App Surprises
  11. A Corollary To My Wish List Philosophy
  12. Baby Gear That Works
  13. The Beach All To Ourselves
  14. Moby Scheme - The Funnest Way To Develop Android Apps
  15. Political Views Tests -- For Good or Evil?
  16. Team Building Through RSS
  17. Instant Favicons - FavIcon Generator
  18. Passover Notes - 2010 Edition
  19. A Scheme Copy-and-Paste Hack
  20. Mind Hack: Walking Meditation
  21. WD 40 as Sleep Aid
  22. Gotcha Of The Day: Running IE8, IE7 and IE6 At the Same Time
  23. Project to try: QEMU
  24. An Ideal All Hands Meeting Location
  25. Getting The Wrong Idea About DC
  26. The Diary of a Teenage Girl -- A Blatant Plug
  27. node.js - Evidence CPS is ideal for high performance?
  28. A Viral Advertising Campaign 76 Years In The Making
  29. It works for a minute. Not so sure about an hour plus.

March 2010

  1. Rain and Rubberbands - A couple hacks worth your time
  2. Passover 2010 - Ready or not, here we go!
  3. 911 Writers Block - A Fun, If Shallow, Resource
  4. Blogger Bloggers Rejoice - Blogger Gets Pages
  5. Dabbling With PLT Serializable Continuations
  6. More Twins Cuteness Overload
  7. Let Them Eat Cake - A Short Video Comparison
  8. Witnessing Democracy By Proxy
  9. The Twins Turn 1!
  10. Shira's latest laptop
  11. I Know It's St. Patty's Day and All...
  12. The Power of Amazon Web Services, and a Scalable PLT Scheme Architecture
  13. Slowly Coming Out Of Passover Denial
  14. Gotcha Of The Day: Getting A Joomla 1.5 Plugin To Function
  15. Data Just Waiting To Be Processed
  16. A Blog Worth Checking Out
  17. Inventing Your Own Reality In Advertising - Yeah, not so impressive
  18. Brooks on Obama and Information Cocoons
  19. A Big 'Ol List Of Google Docs Tips
  20. Test driving a and buying a brand new set of wheels
  21. Google App Engine - Pondering The Trade-offs
  22. Use #471 for a thumb drive: Portal Document Repository
  23. Styling Google Docs - Close, but not quite there
  24. Biologists vs. Engineers
  25. Huntley Meadows Park - An Excellent First Hike
  26. A Resource For Finding DC Local Hikes
  27. Review: Poetry Speaks To Children
  28. Automagically Bringing Up Street View, and Other Google Maps Hacks
  29. divshare.com - the painless way to embed audio on your blogger blog
  30. A New Favorite Sound
  31. Baby Sign Hack - A Printer Friendly ASL Site
  32. A New Favorite Food: Gerber Lil' Crunchies, Zesty Tomato
  33. Late But Oh So Tasty

February 2010

  1. For The SciFi Fans: Containment, a just published novel
  2. Friday Funny: A Massive Government Effort We Can All Appreciate
  3. Baby's First Laptop - Coby TF-DBD7377
  4. Google Short Links - Give Your Google Docs A More Professional URL
  5. Gotcha Of The Day: ActionScript ComboBoxes Swallow Keyboard Events
  6. Picaso Jr.
  7. How To Sink The Health Care Reform Effort
  8. Mystery Solved: SVN's Sparse Directories
  9. DNS Tracing - A Critical Network Debugging Tool
  10. Dev Tool Of The Day: DNS Flusher
  11. A PHP Never Ceases To Amaze Moment
  12. How to make others love the sport of Biathlon
  13. A Most Unusual Day After Valentines Day
  14. The Simons Versus The Snowbank
  15. The Boy Gets New Digs
  16. Getting Some Fresh Air
  17. Another Day, Another Blizzard
  18. Can The GOP At Least Show Up?
  19. Gearing Up For Round Two
  20. Stewart and O'Reilly Talk It Out
  21. The Recipe For An Instant Superbowl Party
  22. Snowmageddon 2010
  23. Gmail Multiple Inboxes - The Path To Inbox Sanity?
  24. Shopping before a storm in VA
  25. The Joy Of Generators - Playing Around With Bing, Scheme and Yield
  26. Gotcha Of The Day: Google Spreadsheets and Firefox Spell Checker
  27. Jotter: A Lightweight Notes, TODO and Reminder App For Android
  28. A Real Discussion Between Obama and The GOP

January 2010

  1. A Meal To Sink Your Gums Into
  2. Running IE6 Under Windows 7 - Easier Than I Thought
  3. Essential Android Apps
  4. Using Textile for HTML E-mail Generation
  5. A Basement Heating Hack
  6. Conan Goes Out Like A Mensch
  7. Last Day With the Twins
  8. Playing with babies
  9. Friday Funny - Intergalactic Snack Tips
  10. Getting That Brand New Phone Feeling With The G1
  11. The Twins Come to Visit!
  12. Gotcha Of The Day: Upgrading Old Versions of Joomla
  13. Dinner For 3
  14. Smallware - A Handy App List
  15. Think Globally, Innovate Locally
  16. Perch: A Lightweight, Inside-Out Content Management System
  17. The Really Easy Way To Donate To Haiti Disaster Relief
  18. Sites To Help Businesses Connect
  19. A Little Baby Monitor Advice
  20. Terror Ball - Capturing The Craziness
  21. Review: The Little Legal Companion
  22. An Instant Web 2.0 Look
  23. Caption Me - Baby Edition
  24. The Adventure Begins - We get our first foster care placement!
  25. Gotcha Of The Day: Convincing Subversion To Pull All Directories From The Server
  26. Spending The Day With Grandpa
  27. Going Bananas With The Family
  28. A (Really) Brief Introduction To WordPress
  29. Review: Let The Baby Drive
  30. A Verdict On Quickbooks Support: It's Broken
  31. Using Coroutines to go from Imperative to Functional
  32. David Brooks - The Makings of a Resliant Nation
  33. Review: Under Armour Cold Gear Hood
  34. Airline Security Lessons From Israel
  35. L'Shana Tovah!
  36. A New Years Day Hike - From Turkey Run to Theodore Roosevelt Island

2009 547

December 2009

  1. 2009 Comes To A Close
  2. Gotcha and Lesson of the day: Google Analytics not counting search engine traffic
  3. uloops.net: Making sweet, sweet music on the G1
  4. Android app of the day: Not Call Log
  5. Amazon Free Shipping Tip
  6. The Behind The Scenes World Of Drones in Afghanistan
  7. 3 Lightweight Image Tools
  8. The Atlantic Awakes
  9. Discovering Craps
  10. Eli on My Scribble-For-HTML Solution
  11. It's not exactly Chinese food...
  12. The Rennovations, and Improvisations, Continue
  13. Another Day, Another Tire
  14. Baby Proofing - One Project - A Few Purchases
  15. HTML Generation - A Little Scribble Goes A Long Way
  16. Color Tool Of The Day: ColorMixers.com
  17. I just finished talking to QuickBook support, and boy am I exhausted
  18. Signs You've Married The One
  19. Oy, To Be An Entrepreneurial Mensch
  20. Some Pain Relief from the Health Care Debate
  21. A Chanukah miracle - the new Ideas2Executables website
  22. The Day After Great Snow Dump of '09
  23. The Winter Whammy of 2009
  24. Hanukkah and Some Thoughts On Giving
  25. Review: A Survival Guide for Child Care Providers
  26. Zahava, Still a bundle of Joy
  27. YouTube is the new Napster
  28. Kicking the tires on child care
  29. Is the tech start-up market aiming too low?
  30. Chanukah Hot Dogs - The Making Of A New Tradition
  31. The Braces Come Off, And 3 Life Lessons
  32. Giving The G1 a Boost - Seidio Innocell Extended Life Battery
  33. Clever Picture Of The Day
  34. Lessons From A Controversial Post
  35. Happy Chanukah, Day #3!
  36. We're having a baby - or a toddler - or a teenager!
  37. Getting Lost In Snopes
  38. Oh No He Didn't!
  39. I Just Finished Running 1000 Miles, and Boy Are My Legs Tired...
  40. A Rabbi's Run-In With The Police
  41. PHP Howto: Adding TrueType Fonts to FPDF Documents
  42. 4 Android Apps Worth Your Attention
  43. 2 Click Buying - Innovation In An Unexpected Place
  44. 50 Best Inventions of 2009 - There's Hope For Humankind Afterall
  45. Ben vs. The Blackout Shade
  46. Is there a better feeling?
  47. Some Stumble Upon Wisdom
  48. One Final Desert Hike - day 6
  49. Scaling New Heights - Day 5
  50. Joshua Tree Hike: Cottonwood Springs to Lost Palm Oasis - Day 4

November 2009

  1. Visting Joshua Tree - Day 3
  2. Morning In Palm Springs
  3. Hiking the Palm Springs Mountains
  4. California Adventure - Day 1
  5. Traveling with the Sony Vaio VGN-SR520G/B
  6. Shira's Blackberry Bold 9700 Review
  7. Gifts and Geography - Two Wired Finds
  8. Adventures in Manscaping
  9. The Onion and The Constitution
  10. More, More Space Place
  11. Man Tip
  12. Two More Laptop Indifference Strategies
  13. The Path To Laptop Indifference
  14. Could the pragmatists win on health care?
  15. The Garmin 855's Maiden Voyage
  16. NuGram - an architecture worth pondering
  17. Mesh Potato - One Yummy Project
  18. Gotcha Of The Day: More PHP Malformed MIME Mail Issues
  19. Gotcha Of The Day: junctions don't work on Windows 7
  20. Saying Goodbye
  21. Sony Vaio VGN-SR520G/B Battery Life
  22. Review: Mexicali Blues
  23. Wine Lovers Unite (in Washington DC)
  24. Thinking Outside The Web
  25. Firefox Profiles: Separating Work and Play in Firefox
  26. Gotcha Of The Day: Getting Postfix and Google Apps to play nice
  27. Sony Vaio VGN-SR520G/B First Impressions
  28. Finding My Way On FreeBSD
  29. Rochester Meets the Twins
  30. Celebrating Grandpa's 90th
  31. Tool of the day: CrossLoop
  32. Trivial Pursuit - Bring Honor To Your Gender
  33. House Call On Washington - Chutzpah Meets Health Care
  34. Blog of the day: post.a.card.
  35. Gotcha Of The Day: PHP Mail_Queue Generates Broken E-mails
  36. Anyone Have Any Sony Vaio Advice?
  37. Needed: OneMinuteCandidate.com
  38. Winter has arrived
  39. TechnoBuffalo.com - fun and eductional
  40. Google Docs API - Now with OCR capability
  41. The Best Kind of Moving Day
  42. Halloween 2009 - Ben dresses up for a change

October 2009

  1. Quick, Colorful and Collaborative TODO Lists
  2. Google Suggest API - Too cool not to use
  3. OhMyGov - A site with some sanity
  4. ColorCombos.com - A lightweight color pallete toolkit
  5. Another Reason To Use PhoneFusion Voice Mail
  6. USB to SD Card Adapter - The Geek Swiss Army Knife of Computer
  7. Health Checkpoint
  8. Adventures in babysitting, NJ edition
  9. Radio Station Of The Day: Cinemix
  10. Health Care Stories Without An Agenda
  11. Add a "Who Links To Me Widget" in Blogger
  12. Etz Hayim Rennovations Take Center Stage
  13. Skyped In Cuteness
  14. Blogging at 55Mph
  15. Recovery Through Retrofit - Smarter Government In Action?
  16. Deeds v. McDonnell - A Debate That Didn't Settle Much
  17. What Non-Partisian Politics Should Look Like
  18. Tool Of The Day: PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser
  19. They're Growing Up
  20. Internet Explorer 8 - 1 Click JavaScript Debugging
  21. Rejoicing With Rachel and Ralph
  22. Ralph and Rachel Rehearse
  23. Broadband Frustrations
  24. ShockingBarack - Road Trip Marketing
  25. Jewish Point-of-View YouTube Series
  26. My Latest Todo List Strategy
  27. Anderson Cooper's Travel Tips
  28. Political Chatter Worth Your Attention
  29. Your Big Idea - To share or not to share, that is the question
  30. A Life Is Fragile Moment
  31. Feature Of The Day: The WordPress Shortcode API
  32. Parallelizing MapReduce
  33. It's Electric
  34. Humor in a 178x178 pixel package
  35. Really Understanding the MapReduce Model
  36. Gotcha Of The Day: Diagnosing PHP Mail_Queue Errors
  37. A Facebook Security Low Point, or Joke?
  38. Walking Tall, A Lesson From Grandma
  39. DC Activity Hack
  40. The National Air And Space Museum - Still A Blast
  41. DC United In Action

September 2009

  1. Google Translate Meets Google Spreadsheets
  2. Arrogance - a novel way to sell beer
  3. Choosing a publishing platform - Blogs, Wikis, Oh My
  4. A Yom Kippur Thought and Story
  5. Yom Kippur Begins
  6. Meeting Zahava Haya
  7. Site of the day: Hebcal.com
  8. Friday Funnies: Obama ragging on Rahm
  9. Friday Funnies: Star Wars Stormtrooper Photos
  10. What A Moment
  11. That's what the deficit looks like?!
  12. Review: A Walk In The Woods
  13. Gotcha Of The Day: cmd.exe is most definitely not bash
  14. Ignorance Is Scary
  15. A Rosh HaShanah Wish
  16. The First Two Apps To Install On A Windows Box
  17. Google Chrome Tips
  18. The White House Blog Shows Some Teeth
  19. Google Docs Tutorial - How to not take yourself too seriously
  20. 4 Mile Run Trail Mystery
  21. Ant Hack: From Log Message To Exception
  22. Facebook Networked Blogs - Yet another distribution opportunity?
  23. Two Lessons From The US Open
  24. Review: Walking The Appalachian Trail
  25. When A Friend Becomes A Competitor
  26. An Apple Store Policy Worth Copying
  27. Blogging From The Field
  28. The Web Based Boss Key
  29. A Flat Morning
  30. Mercury, Vaccine Safety and Other Swine Flu Questions Answered
  31. Site of the day: TreasureMyText.com
  32. A Dose Of Comedy and Drama
  33. Diane and Eyal Are Wed
  34. The Diane and Eyal Event
  35. Walking Chicago With The Fam
  36. The Republican Leadership Gets A Gayle Quinnell Moment
  37. Any Room For A Centrist?
  38. Google's My Maps - A Protest Organizer's Best Friend
  39. Save For A Politically Crazy Day
  40. Good Enough Is Great For Entrepeneurs
  41. Designing For Lower Literacy Users

August 2009

  1. Definition: You've Been Sevened
  2. A Thought About Edward Kennedy
  3. Appalachian Trail: Annapolis Rocks to Pen Mar Park - Route, Food and Gear
  4. Appalachian Trail: Annapolis Rocks to Pen Mar Park - Photos
  5. Lunch on The Rocks
  6. The adventure begins
  7. 3 Thoughts On The Scheme Standardization Effort
  8. An Instant Admin Interface
  9. Garmin Geko Symbol Names
  10. Some Trail Reconnaissance
  11. Lumix TZ50 Wifi: 2 Steps Forward, 1 Big Step Back
  12. Oh, *that* intel
  13. A Solution To Programming Language Growth - Cut The Baby In Half
  14. A Home Run Day
  15. Store Tested, Ben Approved
  16. A Beta Quality Lightweight Backpacking List
  17. Catching A Rainbow
  18. Noah's First Blog Appearance
  19. Hardware First Impressions
  20. Useful Ant Tips
  21. Script-Fu: Save-It Plugin Improved
  22. TweenBots: Robots that need your help
  23. Elizabeth and Dan Get Hitched
  24. Ben and Greg Hike Silver Lake
  25. B & B Camping
  26. The Vermont Wedding Adventure Begins
  27. If I Ever Consult On A Computer Programmer Action Film...
  28. PLT-Scheme: A GUI Accessor Pattern
  29. Two Dreams From Last Night
  30. Cutting Edge Technology, Meets Family Nostalgia
  31. My Latest Senior Moment
  32. Hack Of The Day: Creating a Windows Self-Extracting Zip File On Linux
  33. Palin is Back - And Palin'erer Than Ever!
  34. Legg Mason Tennis Tournament - A Broiling Good Time
  35. A Mini-Hike at Turkey Run Park
  36. Finally, a blog post about these out of control Town Hall meetings
  37. Note to self - be nice to everybody
  38. Business Idea: Low Cost Video Editing Service
  39. My Beer Log
  40. Gotcha Of The Day: Timezone Syncing
  41. A Simple Question, A Powerful Website Feature
  42. Notebook and Pen Advice
  43. Screen On The Green - A classic movie in and unlikely setting
  44. The Simons Spend A Day In DC
  45. The Closest I'll Ever Get To A Beatles Concert

July 2009

  1. Accidental Entomologist
  2. A Hoora-ific Museum and Good Time
  3. The Trickiest Part Of The 9th Of Av
  4. Gotcha Of The Day: SSL website ignoring .htaccess file
  5. Translation Needed - HR 3200 from Congresses to English
  6. A 2 Second Google Spreadsheet Tip
  7. As usual, Jon Stewart says it best
  8. Sarah, Promise me this isn't goodbye
  9. Ball Game Vegetarian Options
  10. The Nats and The Boys, An Excellent Combination
  11. Some Design Inspiration
  12. Dev Site Of The Day: php-date.com
  13. Another Gotcha Of The Day: empty Zip file generated by PHP
  14. Gotcha Of The Day: fopen(...) failed to open stream: Success
  15. The Anatomy of A Blogger Gadget
  16. HTTP Caching Headers Explained
  17. Some Coding History
  18. NSA for Kids - Huh?
  19. McCain sinks to a new level
  20. The Uniform Project: 1 outfit, 365 days
  21. Parting Shots
  22. Kosher Is Back At The Ball Park
  23. More smiles
  24. From Mobile Phones To A Poverty Debate
  25. My How They've Grown!
  26. Carpal Tunnel and The Exit Row
  27. Just What I Need, More Braces
  28. vark.com - Your dynamic advice network
  29. Abstract Hackery
  30. Ben vs The Sampler
  31. Tutorial Of The Day: Moving SSL Certs from IIS to Apache
  32. Batch-o-Movie Reviews
  33. Finally, A Microsoft Product That Doesn't Crash (yet)
  34. Video: A Website with E-Commerce In 5 Minutes
  35. Today Was Special
  36. Video: The Power Of The REPL
  37. A Sushi Eye View
  38. The New Camera and The Air Force Memorial
  39. A US Army Code Name List
  40. More T-Shirts From Web Content
  41. 6 Android Apps That Turn Your Phone Into Something More
  42. Sources For WordPress Themes
  43. Macros and OO Programming
  44. A Little Historical Perspective, Please
  45. Making LinkedIn More Active
  46. A Todo List Tackling Strategy
  47. Back in the USA
  48. Buenos Aires - Some Final Thoughts
  49. Buenos Aires - Day 7 - The Last Day
  50. Buenos Aires - Day 6 - More Closings and More Tango

June 2009

  1. Buenos Aires - Day 5 - Heaven, Hell and Tango
  2. Super Size Me
  3. Buenos Aires - Day 4 - Visiting Uruguay
  4. Off to Uruguay
  5. Buenos Aires - Day 3
  6. Buenos Aires - Day 2
  7. Buenos Aires - Day 1
  8. Our Anniversary Trip Begins
  9. Cool Gmail Feature: Aliases
  10. Instant Trivia Contest
  11. Kid Friendly Food Visualiations
  12. Review: Lumix DMC-TZ50 WiFi Capability - Close, But Not Quite There Yet
  13. The Simons Take Richmond
  14. Bear Watch
  15. Us and The New Camera
  16. Lumix DMC-TZ50 First Impressions
  17. Stories in a single snapshot
  18. Scripting Excel With PLT-Scheme - Goodbye Visual Basic, Hello Scheme
  19. CruiseControl Hack - Kicking off builds from the command line
  20. A Visit To The Beach, Minus The Sand In The Laptop
  21. A Source For High Quality and Free MP3 Content
  22. The A-Town Rap
  23. A Beginners Guide To Cyber Protest Participation
  24. Geekiest Home Page Ever
  25. E.Coli, Syphilis, Ebola - Awwww, How Cute
  26. Bill Maher - Obama needs to be more like Bush
  27. Anchors Away!
  28. The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
  29. Review: Ireland's Four Courts Restaurant
  30. Deslumpification Techniques
  31. 3 Reasons Why Complete Sentences On Twitter Matter
  32. Twitter and the Google Cache - Two Handy Breaking News Tools
  33. A Storm Is A Brewing
  34. The Lighter Side Of Politics
  35. Peeking In On Two Republican Strategies
  36. Cramming for the Virignia '09 Democratic Primary Election
  37. Anatomy Of A Website Break-In
  38. A Good Day To Be a Mets Fan
  39. Ballpark art
  40. Perfect day for a ball game
  41. An Apple A Day...
  42. Test: video and blogging by email
  43. Smallest. Harvest. Ever.
  44. In Support Of Multiple Return Values
  45. The New Look Explained
  46. A Weather Man I'm Not
  47. Husband In Chief
  48. Site Of The Day: SimpleCDN
  49. Feeling Welcome At Temple Beth Shalom Of Long Beach
  50. India Through First Time Visitors' Eyes
  51. Multiple Gmail Accounts On The G1 - And how to Keep your sanity
  52. The Joy Of The Red Eye
  53. I've Been Cupcake'd
  54. Submarning With Mike

May 2009

  1. Going Out For Lunch. Way Out.
  2. 5½ Strategies For Coming Up With Fresh Ideas
  3. Books that make you go Hmmm...
  4. Amazon Wish Lists Go Universal
  5. SnapPhoto - Doing it's part to improve the G1's camera
  6. The Map The Fallen Project
  7. Riding The Duck
  8. A Walk Through Arnold Arboretum
  9. Bye, bye manhood
  10. A Long Weekend With The Twins
  11. Cool Wordpress Plugin: Draw Comments
  12. Chiming in on the MIT Scheme to Python Switch
  13. Two Local Businesses That Deserve Another Shout Out
  14. Warming Up To log4j - Actually giving it a chance
  15. Geek Humor - A History Of Programming Languages
  16. Twitter Search As Sanity Checker
  17. An Unexpected Booklist
  18. Yahoo BOSS - Freer Than Free
  19. The 2009 Join Services Open House Air Show, Or, Guy Heaven
  20. Syntax that cheats and a lesson for R7RS
  21. My Must Have Traveling Tools
  22. Tool Of The Day: LoadImpact.com
  23. Turandot Act 1
  24. DrScheme as Programmer's Scratchpad
  25. Persuasive Writing in 140 Characters or Less
  26. Review: Square Foot Gardening
  27. That's So Texas
  28. Gotcha Of The Day: Adding Image Support To Emacs on Windows
  29. Review: Star Trek
  30. The Perfect Sunday Afternoon Office
  31. A Friendly Saturday Night
  32. A Jog In The Poconos
  33. A Musical Entrepreneur
  34. Gotcha Of The Day: Finding A Reliable Source For Geo Calculations
  35. A Strategy for Big vs. Small Business Competitors
  36. Gotcha Of The Day: Accessing a remote instance of Microsoft SQL Server
  37. Sigpad.com - Cool signatures crying out for a use
  38. Thoughts on Ideas and Competition
  39. Google Docs, Drawing And The Wacom Tablet
  40. Meeting Maya, Hanging with Liam
  41. Cousin Gus Turns 1
  42. Things I've Learned This Week
  43. Wacom Bamboo Tablet and The Gimp - Best of friends

April 2009

  1. The White House Photo Stream
  2. Bookmarklet: Find Time Zone by Area Code in a hurry
  3. 7 Kid Friendly Android Apps (all free)
  4. Saying Goodbye to the Twins
  5. A Most Impressive Ruby Tutorial
  6. A Walk Around Chestnut Hill Reservoir
  7. The Twins Day 4 - Baths and Other Adventures
  8. Swine Flu Info and another Twitter Case Study
  9. The Twins And The Great Outdoors
  10. The Preferred Cygwin Screen Version
  11. Twin Visit - Day 1
  12. Arlington at Sunset
  13. Site of the day: Pastebin.com
  14. The Measles Comes To Town
  15. Eyes In the Back of My Head Hack
  16. PayPal Link Generator - Build your own 1 click payment links
  17. A Preview Of The Next Cygwin Version
  18. QR Code Coolness
  19. Android App Of The Day: My Tracks
  20. More Trial and Error Gardening
  21. Tool Of The Day: Windows Vista Snipping Tool
  22. Most Excellent Video Clips
  23. 100 Ways To Avoid Starting A Business
  24. Passover Notes - 2009 Edition
  25. Blogger and SMS
  26. 2 Helpful Script-Fu Resources and More Script-Fu Code
  27. Somebody, Anybody, Explain this?
  28. Review: Henry Poole Is Here
  29. The New Internet Start-Up Boom and 4 Tips To Join It
  30. Gotcha Of The Day: Enabling Offline GMail In Google Apps
  31. The Left-overs Feast
  32. Seder Prep or Mmmm, that smells good!
  33. Improved Gmail on the T-Mobile G1
  34. A Tribute To Twitter's Programming Language Choice
  35. eBay Chooses The Big Over The Small
  36. Gift From Google: Text Format Based Sitemaps
  37. Emacs Tip: Better ActionScript Indentation
  38. Passover Prep 2009
  39. A Visual Brainstorming Catalog
  40. Another PLT Scheme, Google Spreadsheets API
  41. More Script-Fu - Practice Makes Perfect
  42. And Your Favorite April Fools Gag Was?
  43. Coming Soon: Free WiFi in Crystal City
  44. David Ticks Off Another Year

March 2009

  1. Gotcha Of The Day: Installing Custom Built Apps on T-Mobile G1 / Android
  2. Location Stamper: Putting Moby Scheme To Work
  3. A Facebook meets Passover
  4. A Goofy Take On Obama's Latest Press Conference
  5. The Art Of The Propagator - A Thought Provoking Read
  6. PLT Scheme Meets The Android Platform
  7. A Delayed Gratification Hack
  8. Passover - It's On
  9. Grading Obama's First Virtual Town Hall Meeting
  10. Recipe: Ben's 1 Minute Chili
  11. The Human Side Of The AIG Bonuses
  12. The Twins First Video Appearance
  13. PHP 5.3 Features To Watch
  14. Metal mouth transformation
  15. A Flying First - In Flight WiFi
  16. Twins: Life Day 5
  17. Finishing Up The Nursery
  18. Finally, Photos of the Twins
  19. A must have baby item
  20. Meeting the Twins
  21. Off To Boston
  22. Dabbling With Generators
  23. Two Unexpected (and Free) PDF Related Tools
  24. L'chaim to the new niece and nephew
  25. And I've Been Uncled (again!)
  26. Apache Monitoring From The Command Line
  27. The White House Talks Business
  28. Best Recession Advertising. Ever.
  29. CodePad.org - Seeing is believing
  30. It's Time To Have Your Own Website
  31. Developing AIR Apps on Windows With Unix Tools
  32. The Family That Drinks Beer Together...
  33. A Source For Random Clever Text, or a Twitter API + PLT-Scheme Example
  34. Information Beauty
  35. Two Introductory Web Dev Tutorials
  36. Democrats on an Escalator
  37. Definition: Layup
  38. Almost My 15 Minutes Of Fame
  39. Chag Purim Sameach!
  40. A Linguistic Journey
  41. Laura and Jamie Tie The Knot
  42. Like Out Of A Brochure
  43. Back Too soon?
  44. Portable Forth Learning Environment
  45. Kvetching From Sydney to LA
  46. The Way Home
  47. Canberra And The Darwin Exhibit
  48. To The Top Of Mt. Ainslie
  49. From Brisbane to Canberra
  50. From England To Australia - The Adventure Continues

February 2009

  1. England's Roads as Theme Park Ride
  2. Hanging In Hereford
  3. Wandering London
  4. Most Generous Casino Ever
  5. Running Into History
  6. When Travel Works
  7. My Latest Photography Accessory - Why did I wait so long to buy it?
  8. Reading Web Content Offline On Your T-Mobile G1
  9. Just Call Me Metal Mouth
  10. Don't take the money and run
  11. My Forth Infatuation
  12. T-Mobile G1 Initial Thoughts
  13. The Role Of The Union
  14. On Demand Book Printing
  15. Almost A NASCAR Party
  16. Voice Mail That Works
  17. The Shark
  18. Gotcha Of The Day: Installing PHP 5.2 on Cent OS
  19. News on the Autism - Vaccine Link
  20. Some West Virginia Photos
  21. Ben's Latest Gadget
  22. Two Forth Resources
  23. Gotcha Of The Day: Apache and PHP Crashing On Vista
  24. Ajax and WordPress - A Simple Approach To Integration
  25. 2nd Annual West Virginia Getaway
  26. Scan Your Own Groceries - A Super Market Surprise
  27. Getting Warmed At Dave's House
  28. Some Disassembly Required
  29. 12 Eductional Uses Of Twitter, And Another Publishing Platform
  30. What Absolute Mastery Of Your Job Sounds Like
  31. Twitter Meets Excel and Google Docs
  32. Why You Won't Be Reading 25 Random Things About Me
  33. My Drinking Problem
  34. Yet Another Dell Support Trick - Try Safe Mode
  35. One Cool Animation
  36. Dell Delivers - Mostly
  37. Worst Dialog Box. Ever.
  38. Two Color Toys
  39. Democrats, Republicans and Geeks
  40. The game changer
  41. Potomac as Popsicle

January 2009

  1. Being The Mark
  2. Saving Your Configuration of Damn Small Linux
  3. Google Apps E-mail Gets Gmail Labs
  4. Insights On The Octuplets
  5. recovery.gov - Will it be enough?
  6. Using WordPress Galleries to Store Post Image Meta Data
  7. Emacs tip: a slightly better find-grep command
  8. Washington DC Sites-To-See List
  9. junction.exe - Making my temporary laptop setup livable
  10. Making The Canadians Work For It
  11. A Listening Trip Down Memory Lane
  12. The Story Behind The Logo
  13. Like Christmas For Dell
  14. Quote Of The Day
  15. Gotcha Of The Day: Shira's Dell Laptop Having Network Woes
  16. What's a crappy photo worth?
  17. Watching Obama Become President
  18. 2009 Inauguration - A Chilly Adventure
  19. A Ben's Eye View Of The Inauguration
  20. Gotcha Of The Day: Vista Doesn't Recognize My Canon SD630
  21. The I2X Company Chef
  22. Inaugural Concert - Close, But Not Quite
  23. Best Wine Description Ever
  24. The Picture That's Louder Than The News Broadcasts
  25. Verizon's Network Strikes Again
  26. With Programming Languages, All Publicity Is Good Publicity
  27. A Truly Simple Stock API
  28. What The Internet Knows
  29. Flow Where Flow Shouldn't Exist
  30. This Just Might Be Reality Based Government
  31. Why don't they just stop with the rockets?
  32. Burger King - King of the Viral?
  33. PowerPoint Time Saver - Setting default text box properties
  34. Getting Fancy With Twitter
  35. Getting Things Done Hilarity
  36. Jon Stewart , Gaza, And the search I wish I hadn't done
  37. My Digital Dance Instructor
  38. A Scheme Application Configuration Strategy
  39. Handy Design Site: Common Mac and Windows Web Fonts
  40. 5 Windows Vista New Year's Resolutions
  41. Coping With An Unexpected Laptop Outage
  42. Gotcha Of The Day: Moving MySQL's data directory between machines
  43. Currying For The Working Programmer - Why Bother?
  44. Bear Building and Other Mall Adventures
  45. Singing In 2009
  46. A Server Environment On A Stick

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