2012–2015
1,432 posts
2015 284
December 2015
- More Movie Ramblings: The Big Short
- A Compass to Survive a Hostile Environment: My Front Right Pocket
- The Other Kind of White Christmas
- Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Inspired by Malcolm Gladwell: 6 Tools to Help Slay the Giant
- Review: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
- Pirates, Ninjas and Dreidels, Oh My!
- Smart Phone, Dumb Watch: Implementing a Pebble Pedometer
- AutoPebble Programming: From Phone to Watch in one click
- Random DC: Disabled Veterans, Model Trains and Hallowed Halls
- I'm a Person. Really, I am.
- AutoPebble Programming: Eyes-Free Time Telling
- Holmes Run with Fall Foliage and Spring Weather
- Software Defined Radio Fun: Accessing Real Time Flight Data
- AutoPebble: Be a Wearable Tech Programmer in about 15 Minutes
- Android Tasker: Automatically Storing Local Barometric Pressure Data
- Morocco Adventure - Day 8
- Morocco Adventure - Day 7
- Morocco Adventure - Race Du Soleil (Day 6)
- Morocco Adventure - Day 5
- Morocco Adventure - Day 4
- Morocco Adventure - Day 3
- Morocco Adventure - Day 1 & 2
- Review: I Am Legend
- Morocco Adventure: Tech Recap
- Morocco Adventure - Day 8 (Preview)
November 2015
- Morocco Adventure - Day 6 & 7 (Preview)
- Morocco Adventure - Day 4 & 5 (Preview)
- Morocco Adventure: Day 1 & Day 2 (Preview)
- Us
- Flaming Festivities!
- Reading Racket Documentation on Android, No Internet Needed
- First Impressions: Software Defined Radio - Cheap and Remarkably Powerful
- Thermaroid: Android + a Thermal Printer = Super Cheap, Super Low Quality Photos on the Fly
- A DC Anti-Monument
- Doing Battle With, and Losing To, the Android Camera2 API
- DC Monuments, Mainstream Edition
- blurl: Blogger, now with a command line option
- puburl: Instant Command Line Publishing of Any File
- HTML Content Migration, The Quick and Lazy Way
- Implementing a weekly hours summary using the Freshbooks API
- Two Practical and Useful Preparedness Resources
- It Actually Works: Dental Floss as Cutting Tool
- Hiking and Eating for a Good Cause
- Boston Fun: Quincy Quarries, A Rock Scrambling Good Time
- Boston Fun: The Waterworks Museum at Chestnut Hill Reservoir
October 2015
- Lunch and Boston's Official Pumpkin
- It's so Beautiful: Emacs and Chrome, Side by Side on Android.
- Back in Boston
- Full Moon
- Review: Snapper
- ClimbZone - Bringing Fun To New Heights
- Fun with Fabric: from Jeans to Ancient Weapon
- The Paleontologist Next Door - Discovering DC's 'Accidental Museum of Paleontology'
- Rush Hour
- Another Stop on the Arlington, "Wait, What?" Tour
- Name that Tree: Dinosaur Edition
- DC United - Rowdy Fun For The Whole Family
- blurl: A lightweight command line Blogger client
- Two Lessons From, And Two Projects For the Lulav and Etrog
- Smart as a box of hammers: using a physical object to make smart decisions
- Finally: Hiking Billy Goat A And The $0.38 Game Changing Piece of Gear
- A Little Arlington Hiking Fun
- The Power of Trail Tacos
- The Smithsonian Castle, More Than Just a Pretty Facade
- More Linux-on-Android success: emacs, racket and git
- Running with a Galaxy Note 5
- What's it feel like to fail?
- The Wrist Kit: 80's Fashion Meets Outdoor Utility
September 2015
- Review: Mockingjay
- Three Ridges Hike: Wet, Yet Wonderful
- Rule Number One for a Good Business
- Galaxy Note5 - Don't Call It a Phablet
- Always on Guard
- Sligo Creek Trail - From Falafel to Folk Music and Back
- OK Google, You've Impressed Me
- Linux on your Android phone, easier and more powerful than you think
- Will it Grow: Wildflower Seed Mix
- The Mystery of DC's Voluptuous Nymph
- Hand Picked Sweetness
- Stop. Motion. Movies. So. Fun. So. Easy. So. Do. It.
- Review: Catching Fire
- Sony A6000 Mirrorless Camera - To Buy, or Not To Buy?
- A Little Non-Tennis in New York
- US Open 2015 - Best Of Edition
- DC Quiz: Name That Monument
- You Might Be a Hacker If ...
- You Didn't and You Probably Couldn't - Appreciating "Trivial" Art
- The Hotel Kitchen Kit, v1.0
August 2015
- A Golf Course, Castle and 7 Angels - A day full of plane related photography
- Us
- Seeking Swamps in Florida
- Because It Was Invented Here, and Other Excuses to Drink Bourbon
- Lumia 640 Windows Phone Experience - The Bad and Reality
- Ahoy Matey! The Trickiest Frozen Yogurt You'll Order All Week
- Lincoln and Walter - Fort McNair's Remarkable History
- Getting back to booting: Adventures in Fedora 22 Grub Hell
- Never, ever say anything negative about an elephant or a gorilla, and other important writing advice
- A Bug's Eye View
- And My Top 3 Personal Values Are ...
- Lumia 640 Windows Phone Experience - The Good
- The Long Winding Road
- DCT Summer 2015 - Odds and Ends
- The Lesson from Target's Toy Kerfuffle
- DCT Summer 2015 - Back to Boston
- DCT Summer 2015 - Camping Adventure
- A Small Running First
- DCT Summer 2015 - Day 1
- Roads? Where we're going, we ...
- The Well Built Bird
- Kid Kit v2.0
- Salt Life
- Found at the Beach
- Working Hard, or Hardly Working?
July 2015
- Out on a Limb
- Man Bag Challenge: Quick attachment to my bike
- The Lazy Man's DIY Utility Pouch
- Fishing Adventures in an Hour or Less
- Around the Garden
- Quickie Cordage - From T-shirt to Rope, Faster than you think
- Yeah, Good luck with that
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel
- Short Circuting the Zoom vs. Prime Lens Debate
- Adventurous Eating: Lunching on Poke
- There's a Tag In There - Another Public NFC Tag Spotting
- The Vodka Showdown: Mojito Mint vs. Basil
- Patapsco Valley State Park, 8 Mile Hike
- NFC Tags in the Garden
- Name that Fungi: Orange Stinky Edition
- Morse Code That's Out of This World
- If you've got the Sun, I've got the Time
- Name those Plants: Edible Red Smooth Berries and Mystery Tentacles
- Family Fishing Adventure, 2015, DC Edition
- Quickie Stone Tools - Useful, Satisfying and Easier Than You Think
- An Unspecting Source for Mad Outdoor Skills
- The Meadow Next Door
- Very Locally Sourced Infused Vodka
- Getting Crafty: Intrakitchen Messaging, v2.0
- Hiking Wildcat Mountain
- Help find the missing piece - A Community Puzzle
- Name that Plant: Pretty, Pink and Much Maligned
- Caption Me: Creepy Crawly and Vroom, Vroom
June 2015
- Solved: The Mystery of the Red Fuzzy Cones
- 5 Geocaching Tips for the Beginner with Kids
- Riding the Rapids - A Harpers Ferry Rafting Adventure
- Camping at Point Lookout State Park
- Lancaster Adventure, Day 3
- Lancaster Adventure, Day 2
- Lancaster Adventure, Day 1
- Pocket Dump, Summer of 2015 Edition
- 5 Photo Habits To Try, and 2 To Just Do
- Gardening Progress: A First Harvest
- Gotcha of the Day: Fedora 22 Upgrade Breaks Touchpad, Triggers Hissy Fit
- Caption Me: Weekend Wildlife Edition
- Looks Great and I Can Eat It? What's Not To Love?
- Oven Dried Strawberries - A Tasty Fix for Too Many Berries and Not Enough Time To Use 'Em
- Ebert on Anime
- Bye Bye Zend GData, Hello Custom PHP Google Spreadsheets API Access
- The Dark Sky Finder
- Better Gardening Through Chemistry
- One Holy Bug
- Name that Plant: Yellow Flowers and Super Soft Leaves
- An NFC Based Audit Log, Adventures In Overengineer A Garden Notebook
- Gardening Progress: Who Needs a Water Timer?, Yes They Grew! And Adventures in Tiny Container Gardening
- Claude Moore Colonial Farm - A Kid and Parently Friendly Adventure
May 2015
- Shrooms
- Review: A Partial History of Lost Causes
- Yet Another Candy Tin Survival Kit
- Gardening Progress: More Chicken Wire, Drip Hoses and a Tea Garden
- A More Magic, Magic Wand
- The Very Long, Very Winding Road
- Miva Merchant: Accessing custom fields from mivascript snippets
- Taking the U out of UFO
- Some Man Point Math
- Weekend Critters
- Just how bad are Virginia and Arlington's Flags?
- Got Duct Tape? After watching these videos you will
- Gardening Progress: Veggies Planted, Now Let's Grow!
- Little Pond of Wonders
- Will it grow? Store Bought Quinoa Edition
- Boston Adventures, May 2015 Edition
- The Five Minute Fence
- Gardening's Cruelest Task: Thinning
- How to pair a Uniden UDWC23 Camera with a Uniden UDW10003 Monitor
- Gardening Progress: Raised Beds filled, X-Garden Trampled and Will it Grow?
- Flower Power! Wildflowers of the Potomac Heritage Trail
- Review: Live from Mongolia: From Wall Street Banker to Mongolian News Anchor
April 2015
- Mom of the Year. Wait, What?
- Finding and Appreciating Pennies
- How to make sponges interesting
- It's Alive!
- Let's Hike the CDT!
- Let's Measure That: Soil Moisture
- Review: Containment
- Slurping in Google Spreadsheet Data in 6 lines of Standard PHP Code
- Front Yard Tea: Surprisingly Good
- Buggy
- Gardening Progress: Raised Beds Built, X-Garden Seeded
- The Definitive Ranking of Quest Bar Flavors
- A Simple Recipe for Amazing Adventures
- Evolution, Not Just For Life Anymore
- Cashew Juice - It seemed like a good idea at the time
- You Don't Need This: The Refrigerator Cam
- Standing Tall
- Cherry Blossoms, Daffodils, Tulips, Oh My!
- The Mystery of the Birding and Wildlife Trail Sign
- An Arlington Friendly Garden Planning Checklist
- This Bud's For You
- usem Note Cards: Compact And Oh So Beautiful
- A Little Multi-Radix Programming Fun
- Passover Seders - Insightful, Creative and Soooo Tasty
- Passover 2015, Let's Do This!
- Light, Heat and Tuna Fish
- The Joy of An elisp Powered Code Review
March 2015
- Teddy Bear Beach, A Screaming Tree and Other Features of an Outdoor Office
- The Why and How of Microadventures
- The 3 Dev Tools That Made My Week: mysqlreport, WP SQL Executioner, Chaosreader
- The Origin of Arlington's (Future) Black Rabbit Population
- csveach: Simple, Yet Powerful CSV File Processing On The Command Line
- gdget: Inching Towards a more Linux Friendly Google Drive Solution
- Close by, and blazingly fast - OpenWRT helps construct the WiFi infrastructure I should have had in the first place
- The "Funny, It Doesn't Look Like a Linux Server", Server
- More Miva Merchant for Geeks: Pulling in an admin controlled template to custom MivaScript code
- WriteOnly: Painful adventures in append only writing
- Weekend Snapshots: Sushi, Spring and a Pizza Pie!
- My First Killer App, Circa 1994
- Msg Loc: A Location Aware Messaging App at its Ugliest
- BigHugeMap.com: For when you need instant access to an anonymous, no-authentication needed, web accessible global hashmap
- Joan, Dante and McMillian - A DC Run
- Snow Pics
- Snowday, Shmoday. Let's Purim!
- wine: The 'but I have to run Windows' excuse killer for Linux
- Hacker Workarounds for Lollipop on the Galaxy S5
- Food Randomness: Ethiopian Lent and Ecuadorian Hamantaschen
- Pretty in Ice, and Recovering Lost Photos on Linux
February 2015
- Last Snow Of the Season?
- Adventures in Dithering: Making some gray in a sea of black and white
- Gotcha of the Day: CORS Requests fail when switching to an HTTPs Environment
- DropPrint 2.0: Image and QR Code Support
- Nifty emacs trick: impatient-mode for instant buffer sharing
- Just a Little Impossible: Morris Counting
- Screenshots for the Lazy Linux User
- The Next Best Thing to a Fleet of Personal Reconnaissance Drones
- Our Snow Day Experience in One Photo
- Gotcha of the Day: Google Docs API Suddenly Starts Returning 401 Unauthorized
- Mobile Bluetooth Printing, Linux Command Line Edition
- A Man, His Guitar and One Entertaining Night
- Thermal Nuclear Bluetooth Printing on Android (minus the nuclear part)
- What a Difference 17 Years Does and Doesn't Make
- Typing on Windows, Making Magic on Linux - Adventures in Linux Desktop Remote Control
- Blame it all on my roots--I didn't show up in boots. But it was still an awesome time. Go Garth!
- All the Info, None of that Pesky Reading - Adding Audio Widgets to X-Windows
- Sounds awful, but it's all mine - Adventures in programmatic music generation
- The Agony and Ecstasy of Linux on the Desktop
- They Had Me At Knicks Game
- Knights, Horses and Dinner - A Medieval Adventure
January 2015
- AirDroid to the Rescue
- Review: Char Bar
- That Time DC Tried To Be The Center of The World
- A Teachable Twitter Moment
- The Joy Of Wires
- A Bloody Good Neighbor: Dr. Charles Drew
- Review: Native Foods Cafe
- Review: Lysol Healthy Touch No-Touch Hand Soap System
- The Power of Legos
- A Very Disney Weekend
- Keep the Magic Alive: Using a Disney MagicBand with your Smart Phone
- Urbex for the Beginner
- 3 Paper Hacks: Get Organized, Recyle and Reuse
- Instant Photos on the Very Cheap
- The Most Powerful Computer You'll Never Own
- Review: The Imitation Game
- Hack of the Day: Folding a Napkin into a Basket
- Dude. Got another Dell. So far, Loving it.
- It Snowed. You Kvetched. You Got Your Apology. What's Next?
- From The Cell Phone
- Caption Me: FroYo Edition
- A Little Forth, A Little Evolution
- Arlington's First Snow Fall of 2015 in Two Photos
- 6 Coding Exercises to Reshape Your Programming Brain
- Arlington Quiz: What's in the center of the Pentagon?
- A Rochester Picture Show
- Arlington Quiz: Name That Chunk of Rock
- New Year's Day Hike: Leesylvania State Park
2014 390
December 2014
- More Hand Held Hacking: Forth on Android
- Your next must-carry pocket item: a flacon
- Forth and the Power of Fun
- School's in, Lessons by the 4 Professors
- 20 Years of Tofu
- The Possibilities
- Review: The Games
- 3 Things from an Arlington Elementary School Winter Concert
- A Little Photo and Programming Therapy
- Yet Another Way To Eat Hot Dogs - Yum!
- Boston Chanukah, Day 3
- Chanukah in Boston
- Fire and Ice, a Fun Project
- Thank Honda and Other Religious Ideas
- Install this app, and clear your mind
- The Accidental Arborist
- Perfectly Poached Eggs in 45 Seconds
- Fearless, Courageous and a little bit Crazy: The Pilots of the Aéropostale
- Create Your Own Personal Bat Phone in 30 Minutes
- Review: Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
- Trigraphs, Diana Pads and Zombies
- Caption Me
- Android App Recipes
- Photography Tips for Capturing the Milky Way
- My Wife, The Expert
- Bag, Wallet and Laptop - 3 Ecuadorian Travel Tweaks
- Ecuador Adventure - Day 7
November 2014
- Ecuador Adventure - Days 4, 5 and 6
- Ecuador Adventure - Days 1, 2 and 3
- Greetings From The Middle
- Time for me to fly
- The Time The Nazi's Landed In North America, And More Praise for My Grandpa
- 3 Way Better Options Than The Now Defunct Arlington Streetcar Project
- Lights, Camera... Action
- Pop Quiz: what are these folks standing around for?
- Means Something to Someone, Columbia Pike Edition
- Cramming Darwin into My Cell Phone
- I Believe I Can Fly. Or, at least bounce with gusto.
- He's 2, and He's a Creative Genius!
- The Bic-Kit - More adventures in pocket preparedness
- Jewish Wisdom, Numeric Edition
- The Carrot Clarinet, A 5 minute 29 second lesson on Creativity
- The World War II Code Breakers Next Door - Discovering Arlington Hall
- Caption Me: Big Bird Edition
- A Moment to Kvell: My Niece, the Star
- Photo Fun in Fall Philly
- The Closest I'll Ever Come To Growing My Own Etrog
- Review: Mountain Hardware Ghost Whisperer Anorak
- A Few Oh-Crap-It's-Election-Day-Don't-Panic Resources
- Some Old School Jewish Texas Wisdom and an amazing information resource
- Name that Plant: Reddish Stems and Tiny Purple Flowers Edition
October 2014
- Why Doesn't this App Exist?
- The Time an Accordion Saved a Girl's Life
- Need a quick mobile prototype? Tasker to the Rescue!
- Praise for Siri and a quick (and surprisingly satisfying) mobile version of Eliza
- web-apply - Turn your Android Phone into an itty bitty Scheme app server
- Got a little time, Make a little art
- Disney on Ice: Frozen - So that's what the fuss is all about
- Gotcha of the Day: Adding an audio stream to a video which Handbrake refuses to process
- It's a Drive and It's Worth It -- Morven Park
- Art Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- Brain Candy v2.0 - Looking for a Creepiness Check
- Caption Me, Rucksack Edition
- All Dressed Up For A Worthy Cause
- Ancient Laptops and being a Heroic Boyfriend - Text Formatting inspired Stories
- What I Learned on The Trail
- Why Macros Matter
- Gotcha of the Day: Creating macros from within Gambit Scheme on Android
- The Running Shoes I Want vs. The Running Shoes I Need
- Taking a Bite Out of Rochester
- 3 Trail Running Hacks: Duct-Tape, Doggies and Daylight
- Miva Merchant for Code Geeks; Or how I fought against the default Miva dev model and sort of won
- Challenge Finally Accepted - Climbing Old Rag
- Trail and Road Running Kits, v2.0
- Ouch! Playing with the VIPERTEK VTS-881 Stun Gun
- An Impressive Chunk of History
- When is a Windmill more than a Windmill?
- A Case for War Re-enactments
- Gotcha of the Day: Gambit Scheme App's Script Panel is Blank
September 2014
- An Important Reminder
- repl.it - Love It! And Learn to program with two URLs
- It's all in your head: Adventures in Generating Site Specific Passwords
- More Scheme Dev on Android, Now With Git Support
- 5 Outdoorsy Uses for Old T-Shirts
- Are we there yet? Writing and Running Scheme Code on Android
- Tasker AutoRemote - Remote Programming Of Your Android Device, The Easy Way
- 3 Bugs - 2 Identified, 1 Mystery
- Sights from a Sunday - Apples, Overlooks and Retail. Lots of Retail.
- Road, Rocks and Running
- Well, That Was A Handy Item To Have In The Bike Bag
- Caption Me
- Sew Cool - What a Fashion Blog Can Teach You About Your Life Goals
- The Pen is Mightier Than The Drum Kit
- An 8th Thing To Do With Sardines: Fish Tacos
- Hike the PCT. Never leave your desk.
- You Want Stress Free Air Travel? I'll Give You Stress Free Air Travel
- Who's the Daddy?
- Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
- The Original X-Wing Fighter
- Space Inspired Goodies - Problem Solving, That Moment, and One Heck of a Good View
- Beauty in 15 Random Bits
- Gillette - The Best a Traveling Man Can Get
- Black Squirrels in Arlington - Blame (or Thank) Canada
- A Cork Board Mystery
- A Head Scratcher
- Just Hanging Around
- Name that Fruit: Sort of pear shaped, but grows along the trail
- Let's Go For A Run (In Your Head)
- Lesson learned: when in doubt, wrap it in a crescent roll
- Caption Me
- Post-It Note Marketing - So Simple, So Clever
- Wait, There are other ways to cook ribs?
- The Fundraising Brilliance Of The DCCC, and Why I Think It's All Wrong
- Baltimore's Bus Stop's Got Game
- What A Programmer Can Do
- Happy 1st Birthday, Gavriella!
- US Open 2014 - A Taste of the Action
August 2014
- Come for the lunch, stay for the tennis
- New York Problems
- A Glaxy S5 Case That Works
- 1984. If this doesn't freak you out, nothing will.
- 7 Truly Novel Cell Phone Photography Tips
- Spiral Notebook Self Defense
- Review: Meet Rebecca (American Girls Collection: Rebecca 1914)
- One Last Glimpse of the Beach
- Our Cape May Fishing Adventure
- Sunset Beach Minus The Sunset
- A Little Guerrilla Inspiration
- More Shots From Above
- Math to the Rescue: Fix a Wobbly Table
- Touchdown!
- I Can't Give This Book Away
- A MacGyver Training Guide
- Cows, Pirates and Stickers, Oh My!
- Mission Accomplished
- More Kite Running, than Kite Flying
- The World of Opera through the eyes of Speight Jenkins
- Birthday Cakes and Treasure Hunting - Morning Fun With Tzipora
- High Speed Photography Captures Exceedingly Rare Occurrence
- Pandora Recovery: Saving you from a worst case photography scenario
- Day 2 of Operation Bring-Boston-to-DC
- To Boston and Back - Home with Precious Cargo
- Camping at Cumberland Island National Seashore
- Found: A Local Improvised Library
- Cooking Bannock: It's Holy Crap I Made Bread, Bread
- Your DSLR's Next Accessory: A Vest Pocket Kodak Camera
- DDOT, Exactly As Sentimental As You'd Expect Them To Be
- The 'Will It Matter' Test?
- Gotcha of the Day: Transparently Supporting JSON HTTP POSTS in PHP
- What's in the Tin? My Altoids Kit, v2(?)
- Tisha B'Av, Powered by YouTube
- A Moving Tribute and An Inspiring Idea
- A Destination Camping Gear List, And 3 New Essentials
July 2014
- Backpacking Like It's 1999
- Pocket Sized Domino Set - Free to Make, Fun to Play
- More DC Mall Trivia: Where does this Tree Live?
- So Harmless Looking, So Psychoactive, So Poisonous
- Gotcha of the Day: Accessing AWS EC2 Tags from within PHP
- Like Lego Blocks For Your Yard
- One More Billy Joel Post
- The Piano Man's Still Got It
- A Rule of Thumb for Success
- Name that Tree: Wispy Pink Flower Edition
- Large Format Photography On The (Very) Cheap
- Entertained and Informed, No Electricity Needed
- Picking The Right Stove for a Destination Camping Trip
- Do. Or Do Not. There is No Try. At least when it comes to drawing Yoda.
- Snaking Through The Grass
- I'll Never Look At Unmatched Socks The Same Way Again
- Castles on a Hill, Secret Ponds and Bamboo Paths -- Gotta Love Boston!
- Leap of Faith
- A Little Truth In Advertising: About Those Dozens of Uses for Coffee Filters
- A Little Bushcraft Love
- An Improvised Revenue Stream
- Taming that Ultra Bright DVR Clock
- Review: Meister Gel-Padded ProWrap Hand Wraps
- Oxon Hill Farm - Farm Fun For The Fam
- Proof that Everything Really is Nicer in North Arlington
- Foodie Friday: Olives, Sardines and Crisco
- Open For Business
- About Half Way There
- The Exception and The Rule. Why You And I Can't Seem To Agree On What's Right In Front Of Us
- After The Storm, Before The Sunset
- I Dare You, Request This From Your HOA
- What The Heck Did I Buy? Japanese Tea Edition
- 6 Essentials for a Bike Overnighter
- Contributing to the Delinquency of a Senior
- First Bike Overnighter: From Arlington to Arundel Mills
- Flower Power
- Text to Speech from the Command Line On Windows in 6 Lines of Code
- Arlington Alert Migration - You Can Do Better
- A Gear Lesson From Wired - What High End Gear Can Do To Your Trip
- So Now I've Got To Be A Little Less Positive
June 2014
- How well do you know the Washington, DC Mall?
- 4 Steps to the Perfect Blueberry Crumble
- Apparently I'm Cooking Steak All Wrong, and How To Fix That Right Now
- Review: Ties That Bind
- From Basket Weaving to a Christian Biblical Take on Gay Marriage
- Well That's Handy Advice: Use the Difficulty
- Analog vs. Digital Travel Resources
- Caption Me: Doing Laps Edition
- Some Flight Video Fun
- Yet another cool photo project: LEGO Man Photographer
- Nailed it: clickhole.com
- Japan Adventure - Day 9 (The Last Day)
- Japan Adventure - Day 8
- Who says you can't buy happiness?
- Japan Adventure - Day 7
- Japan Adventure - Day 6 (Hiroshima)
- Japan Adventure - Day 6 (Osaka)
- Japan Adventure - Day 5
- Japan Adventure - Day 4
- Japan Adventure - Day 3
- Japan Adventure - Days 1 and 2
- I'd Like To Buy The World A Coke, And Then Use the Cans For This Project
- bitgrid -- The Result of a Little Tin Can Hacking
- Pimmit Run - Yet Another Excellent Running, Hiking and Just Being In The Woods Trail
- And Today's Theme Song Is ...
- Review: The Distancers: An American Memoir
- The Pocket Linux Server I don't Really Need
- Most Unhelpful Political Messaging. Ever.
- Correction: Giving Mulberries Their Due
- Our 29 minutes and 5 seconds of NBC Fame
- Gotcha of the Day: Unlocking an Android Phone with a Broken Screen
- Get Your Outdoor Exercise On
- Review: A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel
- Review: Satch and Me
- Name that Tree: Closer Than I Thought Edition
May 2014
- The Green Room Isn't Green, and Other Things I Learned Today
- Caption Me: Floating Edition
- Is Tougher Better?
- Four Boys, The Nats and A Good Time (Despite Losing)
- Running Riverbend - Trails, Wildlife and History, Oh My!
- Shields Up, Cloaking Device On
- Vivobarefoot Ultra Running Shoes - The Best Shoe I Can't Recommend
- Our Foster Care 15 Minutes of Fame
- Is That Feather Safe To Touch?
- Name that Tree: Terminal Velocity Edition
- Running Scott's Run
- Row, Row, Row Your Kayak
- National Museum of Health and Medicine - Gross Enough For My Wife, Historically Intriguing Enough For Me
- Let's Roll - Playing The Cee-lo Dice Game
- Gotcha of the Day: Adobe AIR adt fails with "Unable to run aapt"
- R and R's Weeknight Pasta Sauce Recipe
- Adventures in Venture Capital - The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
- A Little Green and A Little Mystery
- Let there be Life!
- Perixx 805L - The Next Attempt At Turning My Phone Into A Laptop Replacement
- Yum! Magic Marketing Pixie Dust
- The Joy Of Control and Why I'm Loving Smart Launcher 2
- Improving Terminal IDE: Adding emacs and command line copy & paste support
- Be A Scientist, Study Exotic Species, Don't Go Anywhere
- Best Buddies: Canon t3i DSLR and Samsung Galaxy S5 Smart Phone
- The Hasty BOB, Or The Very Lazy Man's Guide to Preparedness
- P&G Continues To Tug At My Heartstrings and Win
- Murder, Mystery and My Mother-in-Law
- Pretty in Pink (and Green, and lots of other colors) - A Visit to the US Botanic Gardens
- Space Exploration, 1960's Style
- Playing with Fire: Create and launch itty bitty rockets
- Embracing the Rain
April 2014
- Gotcha of the Day: ffmpeg converted flv file won't play in Windows Media Player
- Graden Variety Trash, or Priceless Civil War Find?
- Gardening 3.0: Think like a Guerrilla
- Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
- Who am I? Snake Edition
- Grow
- Let It Shine
- Ramblings About My New Phone - Samsung Galaxy S5
- Catching Some Rays
- Kitestring: A Safety-net for Your Cell Phone and Inspiration for the Entrepreneur
- Life's Little (Not Kosher for Passover) Treasures
- Review: The Dark River and The Golden City
- Truth in Advertising - Passover edition
- Quote of the Day
- Review: Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins
- Passover Seders 2014 - After Action Report
- DC in Bloom
- Chicken soup
- Handy Outdoor Skill: Gadgetless and Almost Gadgetless Weather Prediction
- Count With Me - Omer Learning 2014
- Down By The River
- Late Bloomer
- Think Like a Unix Geek: Using rsync on Windows to Avoid Restoring From The Cloud
- What's In The Bag, or Ben's Jr. Go Bag
- Why You Shouldn't Hire Me to Direct Your Commercial
- Litter or Modern Art Piece?
- Google Analytics Annotations - A Simple, Yet Powerful Tool for Adding Context To Your Site's Traffic
- A Little Love For the Humble ChangeLog
- The Arlington Passover Challenge
- 20 Minutes and $20 To The Ultimate Thumb Drive
- Getting Back In Touch With My E-mail Roots - A Little Gmail Integration With Emacs
March 2014
- San Diego Adventure - Sunday
- San Diego Adventure - Friday
- Why Scalabilty is Overrated, and the Postmortem Of a Startup
- eMailDodo.com - Painless E-mail Lists for Small Groups
- How a Firefighter Sees The World vs. How You See The World
- White on White
- Of Course It's Snowing
- It's Summer Shoe Time -- Giving A New Minimalist Shoe A Chance
- Rocking Horse? That's so Mainstream.
- In Defense of Today's Parent
- A Behind The Scenes Shot
- I Took The Makeup
- Review: Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story
- Does Banning a Word Work?
- Running with a side order of (stream) hopping
- Dumbarton Oaks Park - A Little Trail Running Right In Georgetown
- In the mood for a little control - listening to Air Traffic Control
- Show Your Botanical Skillz: What the heck are these?
- Surprise! Winter is Back. Again.
- A Little Offline Tweeting
- Ben: 0, KT Tape: 2 - The Battle Continues
- Arrr! Think Like a Pirate and Save Ye Night Vision
- Running Through A Glimpse of Spring
- Proudly Made in China
- My Brief Sail Aboard the SS Simon
- More Mason Neck State Park
- LG G2 Review - Shira's Take
- Useful Skills: Being Wrong and Changing Your Mind
- From T-Shirt to Ninja Mask in 5 Easy Steps
- The Secret To Staying Young
- DC Running: Winter Wildlife Edition
- Gear to drool over: The Sub 60 Fast Pack
- Lessons from an iPhone Instagram Wedding Photographer
- Snow, Up Close and Personal
- Snow Day
February 2014
- Forget the Distance, It's the Navigation that's the Thing
- Need a Silversmith? I've got just the company
- The Agony and Ecstasy of Skateboarding
- This Bird was Built for Flying
- The Concealed Handgun Manual and Two Pro-Gun Voices
- Running the US National Arboretum: All The Nature, None of the Mud
- Random Neighborhood Pic
- And yet, this product isn't flying off KosherMart's shelves
- Song of the Day: Join Together
- The Power of Ancient Thinking
- Get Your Soothe On: Relieving Chapped Lips without ChapStick
- Boston, President's Day Visit
- Our Hot and Sweaty Valentine's tradition
- Gotcha of the Day: Calculating an SHA1 hash of a binary file on iOS in PhoneGap
- Yeah, what he said! NFL Edition
- The Ultralight, Zero Cost, Trail Running Cup
- A Suit and Tie Pocket Dump
- Moscato is the new Manischewitz
- Caption Me: Construction Edition
- A Little Arlington Geek Pride
- Where The Bridge Ends
- The Kinder, Gentler version of Microsoft and Apple
- Gotcha of the Day: XCode Refuses To Refresh Provisioning Profiles
- The Greatest Gift Apple Has Ever Given Me
- ImageMagick: An App Builder's Best Friend
- Discovering Hallowed Ground
- When You Absolutely Positive Must Have Nutella Now
- It's For the Birds (and Walkers, Hikers and Runners): Mason Neck State Park
- Bye, Bye Bridge
- Making Art out of Nothing At All
January 2014
- Yum! Panco encrusted greatness
- Finally in PhoneGap: Build and install iOS apps from the command line
- Of Candles and Bird Song
- Thank You Brother! Printing and Scanning that Just Works
- A Lesson In Losing
- Remembering Pete Seeger
- How I Almost Became a Fan of TV's Bones
- I will never be as Cool as my 70's Dad was
- Really, It's an Invitation.
- Like A Secret Decoder Ring For Kosher Symbols
- When a Get Out Of Jail Card Really Got You Out of Jail
- I will never be as Handsome as my Grandpa, or Rock an Outfit as well as my Grandma
- A Little Friendly Advice to Smartwatch Creators
- The Joy of Discovered Slides
- A Stroll Through History: Spotsylvania Battlefield Loop
- Will Run For Pyrite, Trail Running Prince William Forest
- A Hard Earned Fashion Accessory: Earning My Yellow Belt in Krav Maga
- Another Reason to love AutoHotKey: Internet Explorer Automation
- Coming Soon To Your Camera Bag: A Drone
- Thanks to these Videos, I'm Totally Ready for the Winter Olympics
- Political Sides: Choose at your own risk
- Just Simple Enough It Might Work: OhLife Journaling Tool
- Appreciating Arlington's Path to Racial Desegregation
- First Trail Run of the Year: Burke Lake
- So Cheesy. So Nutty. So Yummy.
- Using a PHP Shell to Simplify Database Migration
- The Half-Bake, Low Cost Alternative to an Emergency Generator
- Inside The Polar Vortex
- Golf to the Rescue
- The Most Fun You Can Have With a Pair of Paperclip
- At Least One Topic The Internet Can Play Nice About
- Baby It's Cold Outside! And yet, I'm still trying to ride by bike
- Let It Snow!
- Oy Vey, My Shul's Online Reputation Has Such Tsuris
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December 2013
- Step Aside Fruit Ninja, I've got Doom To Play
- The Time Traveler's Cheat Sheet
- What I Love About Geo Caching
- The Chap-Kit: The Utility Kit for Your Skinny Jeans
- Parchment Paper, My New Kitchen Best Friend
- Review: Metro Silva Compass, Or How I Overcome My Terrible Sense of Direction
- 20 First Dates
- Sharks, Jelly Fish and a Heck of a lot Inspiration
- Divide and Conquer: Firefox Profiles For A More Sane Web Browsing Experience
- Attaching a Word Doc to an E-mail? Resist! There's a Better Way
- Look Ma, My Software's on TV!
- My Unexpected Run In With My Mortality
- I Came, I Saw, I Bootlegged
- Ham (Radio) On The Cheap
- Tis The Season to be Thankful: Megyn Kelly's Gift to Comedy Central
- The Best Use For A Zip Gun
- SitAware: An Experiment in Improving Situational Awareness
- Fort Washington Park, A Hidden Gem in my Backyard
- I am so not worthy
- Review: Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods
- Beyond Whiteboarding: Cupcaking
- The Quintessential Washington DC Snowday
- Tasker + NFC = One Less Excuse for Forgetting the Laundry
- Icy Scenes in the Hood
- How to Walk Across America
- The Art Therapy I Didn't Know I Needed
- What do you see when you look at this picture?
- My Latest Bag Buy: Port & Company Honeycomb Sling Pack
- A Rabbi's Work Is Never Done
- So Smart: The Galaxy S3 as Dumb Terminal
- Review: Ovo Simply Veggie
- Looking for Lessons Learned, Not Proof of What I Already Believe
- Deep Thought of the Week
- A Local Bank Robbery Tale Too Whacky To Believe
- Vincent van Gogh as Human
November 2013
- Dired, Sweet Dired, in emacs on my Galaxy S3
- The Path to the Perfect Thanksgivingukkah
- Emacs on my Galaxy S3
- Because I Can
- Pre-Gala Photos
- Boston Pre-Thanksgiving trip - day 3
- Boston Pre-Thanksgiving trip - days 1 and 2
- In Defense of Photoshopping In Perfection
- The Only Happy Android 4.3 Galaxy S3 User In The Entire Universe
- Gotcha of the Day: Android 4.2.2 refuses to install my custom developed app
- Night Run
- Old Meets New, Fall at the Air Force Memorial and other Random Cell Phone Pics
- 3 Uses for Android's FolderSync App
- Super Size Me - Galaxy S3 Plus an HDMI Cable
- Virginia Beach Quickie
- The MiniSuit Bluetooth Mini Keyboard and Why I Had to Have One
- Housing Hidden in Plain Sight
- My Most Significant Accomplishment Of The Week
- Review: A History of Weapons: Crossbows, Caltrops, Catapults & Lots of Other Things that Can Seriously Mess You Up
- Snaking Into The Distance
- Jacksonville Day 4
- Jacksonville Day 3
- Jacksonville Florida, Days 1 and 2
- A Total Zero. Running to the DC Zero Milestone
- The Nest, Bringing Elegance To Your Thermostat
- The Making of Jam Snob
- My Take Away on Malcom Gladwell's David and Goliath TED Talk
- The Funny Thing About Virginia Electorial Politics
- It's About Time: Running to the United States Naval Observatory
- I've got the power! Review: Anker Astro 3E 10000mAh Portable Cell Phone Charger
- Lake Accotink, 4 miles of smooth trail running
- Caption Me: Holloween Edition
- Putting Our Halloween Knowledge To Good Use
October 2013
- What's in a Name? The Space Blanket
- Trail Running Kit, v1.0
- Rejoicing in one of Life's Great Mysteries
- Practice Your Photo Skills, Never Leave The Comfort of Your Desk Chair
- And Now, It's Just Dirt
- Trail Running Turkey Run Loop
- A Bumper Sticker You'll Only See in Arlington
- Black Tie'ing It For A Good Cause
- A few healthcare.gov What If's
- Project Manager's Dilemma: To Share or Not To Share?
- A Super Simple PHP Google Spreadsheet API
- Trail Running on the Cabin John Park Trail
- Meeting Nora, Exploring Reston
- Getting the Nexus 7 in touch with it's Linux Roots
- Two More Tools in the Fight Against Bots and Spammers
- Review: Nathan Light Spur
- Adventures In Man Bagging
- Slow Cooker Taco Chiken Chili, Shira Style
- The Pen is Mightier than the the Pricing Gun
- 25 Uses for Atheltic Tape on the Trail
- Review: North To Freedom
- Butler's Orchard Pumpkin Festival
- The Mystery of the Locked Toolbox
- Forget drinking more water, you need to drink more whiskey
- At Rest
- Final Goodbye to Grandpa
- Massively Throwing Off Your Google Analytics eCommerce Stats in One Easy Step
- Dave Chappelle on Being Yourself
- You'll never guess where Washington, DC's Reservoir Road leads to
- Clock Parts! Get Your Clock Parts!
- Another Potomac Heritage Trail Running Report
- A Quick Grandpa Visit
- Shutdown shenanigans: Trying to be on both sides of the issue
- Teacher Night at the Spy Museum
- Cousin Andy's First Ethiopian Adventure
- Altered Reality: Foxnews.com and the Government Shutdown
- Twisted First Aid: Dealing with a sprained ankle on the trail
- Android Dev Tip: forcing a fresh install of an app from the command line
- Gotcha of the Day: Windows 8 refuses to install Nexus 7 Drivers
September 2013
- Wisdom From A Scribe
- Another programming myth: if you don't code when you're a kid, you'll never be a pro
- Finally Putting an Etrog To Use
- Half a Do It & Carry It Solution
- Bringing PHP Templates to MojoMotor
- Signs of Fall
- Two Northern VA Birding Resources
- Review: Instant, The Story of Polaroid
- A sign of the times
- Quick Feet
- Review: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
- DC Around Sunset
- Perfect day for some soaring
- Arlington Shelter In Place Order
- Pretty Smile, Nice Legs
- Review: The Guerrilla Factory: The making of Special Forces Offices, the Green Berets
- Two Classic Basketball Stories You Should Know
- Perfect Moments
- Wheezing on Wilson, Running Routes that start in the Clarendon
- Coming in for a landing
- Can't Quite Explain These Pictures
- emacs function: humanifying URLs
- Precious cargo deposited as our adventure comes to an end
- The Mystery of the Empty Stroller
- And Then There Were 4!
- This will make sense tomorrow
- Why you can succeed in having a great career
August 2013
- Baby Alert!
- Got a recipe for Gridlock? Do Share!
- Name that Plant: Green Spikey Cone Edition
- Feeling Sluggish
- Scenes from an Anniversary
- Worst. Wishing. Well. Ever.
- Shooting Strangers - Some tactical advice for capturing better photos
- A Little Love For Git
- Hacker or Poet?
- Scratch: Continuing to be the ultimate kid programming environment
- Girl Fight!
- Name that Plant: Red Stems with Clusters of Berries Edition
- A tiny eshell add-on: jump to shell ready to take input
- Finally wrapping my head around eshell (the emacs shell)
- More Finds in Arlington Cemetery
- 4 Hacks: Post-Its, Foam Cups and an Anti-Hack?
- Name That Plant: Green Tentacles Edition
- A "Wife Speak" Pop Quiz
- Review: Backyard Foraging and A Third Way To Think Of Wild Edibles
- A Little Beach Front Property in Arlington, VA
- Workflowy: your next application mockup tool
- 3 Reasons Why Arlington County's Columbia Pike's Library is The Best.
- Gotcha of the Day: New Propane Tank Doesn't Work with Weber Grill
- Fearless Frenchmen
- Nats Game for the Win
- More Hanging Around
- Going Green and Hanging Around
- Jewish Brainteaser: How many chapters of the Mishnah contain a religious dispute?
- Foot-in-Mouth Avoidance: Master the Kvetching Order
- Hop To It
- One last set of family photos from the weekend: Cell Phone Edition
- Descending Redundancy In Action
- It's All About the Shoelaces
- Iron Butt Rally: Fun To Follow, Crazy Hard to Participate In
- David and Maryn Get Married!!
- A Handkerchief and a Pocket Knife
- Reaching The Depths and Heights of Manliness in 2 Hours
July 2013
- The Power of a Chutzpah in Two Stories
- 100 Uses for a Bic Pen
- Day Hiking Kit, v3.0
- Overheard in DC: "none other than Helen Keller"
- Just About The Perfect Shoes
- Birds, Bees and a Geocache
- Random Videos that Moved Me: A Little, A Little More and A Lot
- The Difference Between Seeing and Paying Attention
- Name those Plants: Pretty Flower Edition
- The Mystery of the Important Looking Steps
- Big Run Loop with a Small Addition
- Gear List: Backpacking with a Preschooler
- Shira's 3 Rules of Backpacking
- 15 Minutes of Newspaper Fame
- Learn to Program X in Y minutes
- 7-Word Autobiographies
- Gotcha of the Day: One Config Tweak To Bring Down a PHP Based Server
- Two Guys and a Bot
- Tisha B'av and Hope
- Scientists and Vacations
- A Valentine's Day gift with staying power
- Review: The Longest Race
- Name That Plant: Swamp Edition
- A Chocolatey Hack: Brownies in a Mug
- Last Wall Standing
- Gotcha of the Day: FMS's "FLV segment cache is full" error stops recording, continues to broadcast video
- Ouch! A Few Kubotan Options
- The Almost Zero Dollar, Zero Ounce Candle Lantern
- Missing man
- The Best Way To Beat The Heat
- A Wedding Personal-Surival-Kit (PSK)
- July 4th Boston Trip
- Turning Key Bridge into a Lock Bridge
- Redundancy vs. Descending Redundancy
- A Few Words About the DOMA Decision
- Minitronics Surival Pack - Almost Altoid Sized Greatness
- Romantic, Free and Showing You Care - A Gift Idea
June 2013
- 15 Years Ago
- Review: Point Your Face at This
- Canon EOS T3i in AV Mode with bulit in Flash - A Lot Smarter Than I thought
- The Power of Truth in Advertising
- Simple and Clever - Irresistibly Creative Hacks
- Fishing Ashburn's Beaverdam Reservoir
- Rosebush Reset
- Ben's 4 Rules for Selling Your Programming Skills to Others
- A Little Debugging
- When Boys Turn Into Giants
- Running Late? Tasker To The Rescue
- Going, Going...almost Gone
- Who Can Learn What From Vine
- Gotcha of the Day: Shira is calling but my phone isn't ringing
- Capturing Some Buzz
- It's All In Your Head
- Review: Death in a Strange Country
- Pretty Much Every Conversation I've Ever Had With My Wife
- 15th Wedding Anniversary Trip - Day 12, The Last Day
- The first disappointment of our trip
- 15th Anniversary Trip - Day 11
- 15th Anniversary Trip - Day 10
- 15th Anniversary Trip - Day 9
- 15th Anniversary Trip - Day 8
- 15th Anniversary Trip - Day 7
- 15th Anniversary Trip - Day 6
- 15th Anniversary Trip - Day 5
- 15th Wedding Anniversary Trip - Day 4
- 15th Wedding Anniversary - Day 3
- 15th Wedding Anniversary Trip - Day 2
May 2013
- 15th Wedding Anniversary Trip - Day 1
- Fighting Programming Skills Stagnation
- Review: Learning to Fly: An Uncommon Memoir of Human Flight, Unexpected Love, and One Amazing Dog
- Family, Food and Fun in Rochester, NY
- What I Learned In Boy Scouts
- Men At Work
- Review: Wald #582 Folding Rear Mounted Bike Basket (aka Mesh Wire Panniers)
- The One Resource You'll Need to Unroot Your Galaxy S3
- 3 Examples of Creative People Embracing The Shake
- Forth in Racket, Mind-bending and Beautiful
- I Love NY
- In Praise Of Farkle
- Another Glover-Archbold Trail Encounter
- A Blooming Weed
- Ultralight Backpacking Meets Cylcing
- The Hipster Whiteboard
- A Person-to-Person Cool Tool (or: how to talk to anyone about anything)
- Helpful Parenting Advice from An Amazon Review
- 4 Macro Hacks Resources
- Pretty in Purple
- Love Letter To Plywood
- Shots from the Hood, Including The Happiest Cat
- A DC Mystery Finally Exposed
- The Front Pocket First Aid Kit
- We're Alive - A Terrific Radio Drama
- How to capture a lightning strike with your camera phone
- Poem of the Day: What Work Is
- Art In Progress
- Preparing For Take Off
- Review: Worth Dying For: A Jack Reacher Novel
- Using the Nissan Thermos Backpack Bottle to Elevate my Tea Drinking
April 2013
- Arlington County's 3 Minutes of Fame
- From The Camera Phone
- Gear Notes - Travel and Snow Edition
- Birthday Surprise Trip - Day 2
- Birthday Surprise Trip - Day 1
- And we are off to... Uh, I don't know
- Minimalism Powered Resilience
- Crafting A Customized-By-Admin Mobile AIR App
- A Little Mountain Biking First Aid
- Spared and Alive
- What do these cabbies know that I don't?
- Google killing stuff I love, Picasaweb Edition
- What This Bag States
- New Laptop v2.0: Dell Inspiron 15z
- The Baltimore Museum of Art
- Monitoring The Boston Manhunt
- One Trick for Taming My RSS Feedlist
- Hurray! It's Cargo Shorts Weather - A Summer Pocket Dump
- Flowers, Flowers Everywhere
- Review: Call of the Mild
- Your Daily Dose of: How'd he do that?!
- Gotcha of the Day: Adobe AIR's ipa-app-store packaging produces a corrupt IPA file
- 9 to 5, What a way to spend an evening
- Eating Suishi Like A Boss
- When It's Too Nice To Stay Inside
- A Poetry Inspired Mystery and Some Poem Favorites
- Review: The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling
- Launching an Android App from an Adobe AIR App
- Rock'n It Out With Fleetwood Mac
- Two Lovers, Just Hanging Around
- If I Had A $1,000,000
- Around Arlington, First Sunny Weekend In Forever Edition
- Arlington Cemetery, Some Assembly Still Required
- Gotch of the Day: fcsh fails to execute
- Behold! The Power of Googly Eyes!
- Two Sound Ideas: Auralization and Audio Graffiti
- Air Force Memorial, Yet Again
- Bringing Out My Inner Ninja
- What George Washington Ate For Breakfast On Passover
March 2013
- 2 Alarm Walking (and/or Running)
- Sometimes, Try As You Might, The Universe Won't Let You Fail
- Why Must Google Continue To Kill Things I Love?
- Two Resources for a More Festive Holiday Season
- Two Ways I Know Passover Has Arrived
- A White Passover
- Still Not Switching To Distributed Version Control
- Don't Try This At Your Seder
- 5 Places to Stash $20
- Schleping While Running Hack
- Bird Song and Photography Wishes
- Library of Congress Images - Amazing Resource, But For What?
- Next Door Nature Scaled Down - Fort Bennett Park
- Review: 21 Ways To Create A Sales Stampede On The Internet
- Another Case Of RSS Love
- Gotcha of the Day: Handling requests to a long gone wiki
- Google Reader is Dying, RSS Isn't
- Adding a splash of (random) color to Cygwin's rxvt windows
- Song of the Day: Modern Love cover by Luciano Colman and Maxi Gonzalez
- Batteries Not Include Or Needed. Pocket Games and Activities
- Your Distraction for the Day: Axis of Awesome's 4 Chord Song
- Review: Comet's Tale
- Soaking Up Some Weekend Sunshine
- Gotcha of the Day: Creating a semi-automated cygwin install script
- Dealing With That Awful Touch Pad
- One Last Rainy Day Activity
- First Impressions: Windows 8
- Uh, Where's the Snow?
- Ditch remote work? Go for it Yahoo!
- Flyover
- First Impressions: Lenovo Ideapad P400 Touch
- Amazing imagery, Off the charts bravery
- If I have a superpower, does that mean I get to wear a cape?
- More Destruction in the Hood
February 2013
- The Power of the Hoodie
- My Work Tablet: Staples Quad Ruled Composition Notebook
- A Little P-51 and P-38 Love
- Artists and Travelers at Work
- One Thing We're Really Good At
- Gotcha of the day: Tweaking Blogger's Image Display Size
- Proof Spring is Right Around The Corner
- Field Testing a New Set of Cans
- A Most Fishy Passover Plan
- So not ready to have this conversation
- Your Third Option For Shaving
- The Grandpa Project, v1.0
- Review: The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person
- Now *That's* A Bus Trip
- From Pant Leg to Backpack
- Extremely Close, Indeed
- Say it with more than a little bit of snark
- Getting a Kick out of Valentine's Day
- Meeting Maya
- Saving the Princess
- That's one tough vacancy to fill
- What I found Missing in the State of the Union
- The Next Business Book I'd Read (if I hadn't already started a business)
- Take a Deep Breath and Watch This
- A First Visit to the National Children's Museum
- Gotcha of the Day: flvcheck fails to run on linux
- Worth a Try: Shaving with a Double Edge Safety Razor
- Two Fresh Ways Of Looking At Trees
- Caption Me, Up To No Good Edition
- Adventures in Ethiopian Cuisine
- In Pursuit of More Compact PHP Code
- Review: The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
- 16 Lessons In Keeping The Love
- Thinking About Generators
- Smokin
- DC Braces itself for another storm. I chuckle.
January 2013
- Making A Super Simple Alcohol Stove
- Review: Eating Aliens
- Fort Hunt Park - WW II Spycraft meets a day in the Park
- Heads on a Stick and a Heaping Pile of Crabs - Putting a Snow Day to Good Use
- Name this weather emergency
- The 11 Year Old Rock Climbing Master
- Doing More With Less, Style Edition
- Winter Finally Arrives
- Review: 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know By The Time She's 30
- Business Lessons from Tom and Gary
- An Excellent Way To Misuse Poll Data
- Woody Allen's Tech: Exactly What You Expect It To Be
- Gotcha of the Day: Setting up an Adobe AIR App to run as a Launcher on Android
- Inauguration 2013: I Came, I Saw, I Went Home For Hot Chocolate
- Windy Run Trail and Park - A Perfect Slice of Next Door Nature
- He Has a Dream. And It's AWESOME
- A Notepad That Goes Places You Really Need It To
- So this is inappropriate?
- A Minimalist Sketching Kit
- My New Favorite App That Almost Wasn't
- Dear NBC, Thanks.
- Running Mantra
- Tips for Cutting Your Hair At Home
- When Music and History Collide
- The Index Card As Art Canvas
- Caption Me: Migration Edition
- Gotcha of the Day: Apache refuses to serve up static files
- Our Entire Honeymoon Photo Album
- Name That Tree: Yellow and Green Baseball Sized Fruit Edition
- A Better S3 Backup Solution
- Journey To The Center Of My Laptop
- More "You Don't Need That Fancy Camera" Inspiration
- One more Panama Post: Passing the Time on the Airplane
- Around Town
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December 2012
- Panama Adventure - The Last Post
- Panama Adventure - Day 7
- Panama Adventure - Day 6
- Panama Adventure - Day 5
- Panama Adventure - Day 4
- Panama Adventure - Day 3
- Panama Adventure - Day 1 and 2
- The 32 Megabyte Mystery
- More Sketching Inspiration
- Review: The Forager’s Harvest
- One Big Delivery
- Name That Plant: Green Spikey Fruit Edition
- A Little Script-Fu To Help With Image Organization
- Newtown Related Stories Worth Reading
- If You Read Only One Article On Troubleshooting Linux I/O Wait Issues, Make It This One
- Pretty Lights and Failed Experiments
- Operation 8th Birthday Party
- Caption Me, DC at Night Edition
- Gotcha of the Day: Galaxy SIII + USB - Not Recognized by Windows 7
- Haaaaaayaaaaah!!
- A Brand New Set of Strings
- Meadowlark's Walk of Lights
- Fixed
- Name that Tree: Red Berry Edition
- Morning
- Meeting Laguna
November 2012
- Frosty
- A Cool Recipe For a Bird Feeder
- The One Resource You'll Need To Root Your T-Mobile Galaxy S3
- Review: Aduro Shell Holster Combo Case
- An Android On Device Programming Environment
- Another Reason To Love Jones Point Park
- A Reason To Give Thanks: Our Newest Cousin
- Biking from Arlington to National Harbor
- The 6 Essentials for Thanksgiving
- Wear This, Not That, Exercise Edition
- Loving life on my new Galaxy S3
- Watching the 2012 Gymnastics Team Do Their Thing
- Us
- A Narrative Interface - The Ultimate Kid Friendly UI
- Stumbling Onto Hallowed Ground
- Putting The Beautiful Day To Good Use
- Building A Microscope Out of a Laser Pointer
- Review: 869 New Uses for Old Things
- Thanh Van - The Best Little Hidden Vegan Restaurant in Northern Virginia
- Another Geocaching First
- Election Night Romance
- It's About Time This Kid Learned To Program - Embracing Scratch
- Good Minions Are Hard To Find
- Cox Farms and Playing the role of responsible adult
- Newt Brings The Cheap Gas To My Neighborhood
- That Time David Saved Halloween
October 2012
- Useful Object of the Day: Olive Oil
- Some Kindle Fire HD Observations
- My Favorite Piece of Hurricane Sandy Gear
- Waiting for Hurricane Sandy
- Arlington meeting Sandy - Not as freaked out as I'd expect
- Dental Floss Hacks, Prison Edition
- Review: Kum Long Point Pencil Sharpener
- Caption Me - Walking to the Bus Stop Edition
- 25 Things My Mom Can Do With Her New Kindle Fire
- Making A $2.00 Write Anywhere Nano-Sized Pen
- A Halloween Idea - Braincandy!
- Review: Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike
- Xmarks: The Cause Of, And Solution To, All My Bookmarking Woes
- Not Exactly a Kodak Moment
- Date Night, Georgetown Edition
- Great Country Farms - Fantastic Fun on the Farm
- Gotcha of the Day: Finding sane logcat settings for PhoneGap on Android
- Tastes Even Better Than They Look
- 6 Clever Hacks from BikeHacks.com
- Bike Overnight (S24O) Ideas From DC
- Yet Another Drawing Resource
- Review: What The Robin Knows
- Review: The Hunger Games
- The Power Of Low-Fi Media
- The Brilliance of Mini Photo Sessions
- Tiny Space Design - Boat Edition
- Boston Adventure - 2 Adults, 4 Kids, Total Exhaustion
September 2012
- VOTE!! and My 3 1/2 Seconds of Viral Fame
- Ted Talk Wisdom Meets Yom Kippur Observance
- Yet Another Trip to the Air Force Memorial
- Holmes Run - More Next Door Nature
- Drawing the Emberley Way - Fast and Fun
- Around Arlington - Butterflies, Cozies and Climbing
- Not a HAM Radio Guy, But if I was, Here's My Dream Setup
- Geocaching as visual exercise
- Nothing Says Welcome to the Department of Defense HQ Like This Guy
- Review: Rory's Story Cubes
- Running Light Reviews - Cyclops CYC-MHC-W Micro Mini LED and Pelican Mini Flasher 2130
- Quickie Project: The Penny Stove
- Embrace The Slow - The DC Triathalon on a Bikeshare Bike
- Shipwrecked - Who's Rescuing Who?
- A Tin Foil Hat For My Canon MX860 Printer
- Yo, Ho, Ho and Kindle For Me
- Useful Skill of the Day: Learing the Jug Knot
- Rover Gets a Home of His Own
- Take a Trip Berlin, Skip the Jeg Lag
- Rock Creek Regional Park
- Bye-Bye Summer, Hello Second Grade!
August 2012
- Just standing around praying
- The Mors Kochanski Survival Kit
- Review: Wine to Water
- An Excellent Way To Get Customers To Lie To You
- Mazel Tov!
- Come hell or high water Greg and Mer are getting married
- Photo Project: Let Strangers Do The Work
- Tool of the Day: Process Monitor -- X-Ray Vision For Windows
- Gotcha of the Day: PhoneGap + iOS: Failing to build from the command line
- Review: Kaya - An American Girl
- I Think This Couple Just May Have Staying Power
- Stopping To Photograph The Flowers
- Gotcha of the Day: PHP Generates Random MySQL Access Denied Errors
- Marriage Hacking, Finding The Optimal Shower
- Small, But Tasty Action - Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes
- A Blog Worthy Breakfast Sandwich
- Caption Me - Stress Edition
- Finding Treasure in Arlington - A First Geocaching Adventure
- Useful Object of the Day: Tyvek Mailers
- Arlington's Micro Stonehenge
- ffmpeg - Discovering a new Swiss Army Knife Software Tool
- Power, Please?
- Curiosity Doesn't Disappoint
- Legg Mason becomes the Citi Open - Still Hot and Wet
- Gotcha of the Day: Finding trace statements generated by Adobe AIR's adl.exe
- An Even Easier Approach to PDF Generation in PHP
- When A Celebrity Behaves
July 2012
- Day Hiking Kit, v2.0
- When In Doubt, Add WD-40
- Another Reason To Love Bic Lighters
- The 50 Foot School
- A Batch Of Useful Household Hacks
- CSS3 PIE - Taming IE's CSS Limitations
- Murphy's Law of Hose Repair
- Review: Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share
- Review: George Washington's Breakfast
- Mt. Vernon, A Family Affair
- Planning for Failure, Home Edition
- Proof You're Doing A Good Job Parenting Your 7 Year Old
- Gear Notes from Our Latest Trip
- The Sound of Our Shenandoah Hike
- 7 Minutes of Terror Makes for 5 Minutes of Awesome Video
- Can your backpack do this?
- Shenandoah Corbin Cabin Adventure
- Advice for the ladies
- All packed and ready to go
- 5 (mostly) YouTube Inspired Backpacking Hacks To Try
- Quote of the Day
- Manliest Bead Project. Ever.
- Which color should this room be? A Painting Hack
- Meanwhile, While I was baking in DC...
- Farewell Old Friends, You'll Be Fondly Remembered
- DollarShaveClub.com - Hilarity Meets Business Advice
- Is That A Weather Report...
- Celebrating the 4th - A Roasting Good Time
- Alaskan Adventure Gear Review
- Alaskan Adventure - The Last Post
- Alaskan Adventure: Day 6 & 7
- Alaskan Adventure: Day 5
June 2012
- Alaskan Adventure: Day 4
- Alaskan Adventure: Hello from Glacier Bay
- Alaskan Adventure: Day 3
- Alaskan Adventure: Day 2
- Alaskan Adventure: Day 1
- Raspberry Pi - Techie Yummyness
- Just Might Be The Perfect Desk
- Watching A Pro At Work
- Google Spreadsheets - Automatic Unit Detection?
- The Intertsection of Book Burning and Blogging Your Lunch
- A Snippet of The Class Play and Sing-along
- Blueberry Picking and Exploring Theodore Roosevelt Island
- The Second Best Part of an Edible Arrangements
- Altoids Tin to the Rescue - A Math Games Surivival Kit
- Hiking Gear Checklist - Retro Edition
- A Moment To Kvell - Watching One Of The 4 Boys Graudate
- Review: Games for Math
- Two Container Hacks
- Home Hacking, and Hacking Homes
- Gotcha of the Day: Facebook Like Button Not Working
- Two Examples Of The Power of the Letter
- Whoops, I Accidentally Picked Up A Mantra
- Behold! The Power of Jenga Blocks
- WP, S3 and Apache - 3 Tech Recipes I Used Today
- Useful object of the day: The Penny
- Insects - Nature's Evolutionary Scratch Pad
May 2012
- The Zoo View - An Excellent 22 Mile Bike Loop Around DC
- Gotcha of the Day: ImageMagick errors when processing large images
- Biking, Shopping and Urgent Caring
- Another Audio Creation - Courtesey of Miniseq
- Running Dell Diagnostics on a Vostro 3300 and Other Notes from a Crash
- Personal Goal: Love My Job as Much As Jörg Sprave Does
- In A New York (City) State Of Mind
- Watching Life Take Shape. Surprisingly Quickly, No Less.
- A Different Kind of Snapshot
- Do This Now: Install Lazarus Form Recovery Firefox Plugin
- Rough Science: Reality TV As It Should Be
- A few "The Most ..." moments
- 6 Ways I'm Trying to Improve as a Photograph, and Praise for Scott Kelby
- Strawberries, Butterflies and Playgrounds Oh My!
- The Twins Take DC
- Changing Behavior The Clever Janitor Way
- Review: Poem in Your Pocket (Or, how to EDC a poem)
- Why You Need a Behavioral Psychologist On Your Product Team
- Got an iPad! Now What?
- Sweet! Most Romantic Candy Ever
- 4 Hacks I've Got To Try
- Review: How To Open Locks With Improvised Tools
- Snapshots from Old Town
- The Sound of Extended Day
- Random Gibberish as Brainstorming Material
April 2012
- 5 Life Lessons from a Photography Debate
- How A Boostrapper Sees The World
- The Fun Science Blog You've Been Waiting For
- Why R is Popular and Scheme Isn't
- Liberal Propaganda, Start 'Em Young
- Review: Kicking Ass and Saving Souls: A True Story of a Life Over the Line
- The Trashcam Project - Down and Dirty Photography
- Wet and Cold Race Day Checklist
- Biking (part of) The Rock Creek Trail
- Baltimore Aquarium, Round 2
- Parkway Classic - 10 Miles of Wet Fun
- The Bus Stop Bully That Wasn't
- MailChimp - A Better RSS to E-mail Solution
- Review: Dreams and Schemes: Stories of People and Architecture
- An Eagle Board Of Review From The Other Side
- Spotting Discovery - The Shuttle Visits DC
- Most Badass Library. Ever.
- Cain's Arcade - Watch the video, Feel Good
- Exploring Daingerfield Island
- Kid Activity To Try: Salt Dough
- Artist of the Day: d. sub0
- The Perfect Way To Kick Back After A Long Day
- Recommending The Humble Whistle
- Purim (yes, Purim!), The Perfect Time To Start Blogging
- Two kinds of Hospital Hacking
- Gotcha of the Day: Building Handbrake on CentOS
- What We'll Be Talking About At Our Seder
- Playing Carnegie Hall On Your Own Terms
- Finding, But Not (Yet) Exploring Dora Kelly Nature Park
- Proof Passover is Just Around The Corner
- Tweeting the Omer - A chance for some bite size Torah study
- 15 Minutes of Fun: Making Paper Airplanes
March 2012
- Watching a 7 Year Old Learn to Ride a Bike
- Apache Hack: Bypassing Basic Authentication on a File-by-File Basis
- Programmers and Sexism
- Lawnchair: SQLite for the NoSQL World
- Failure vs. Fear of Failure
- Next Door Nature - Theodore Roosevelt Island
- Idea: Photo + Biking Biathlon
- The Family that Sunbathes Together...
- Friday Fun - Outdoor Gear Edition
- Canon SD 630 as a Kid Friendly Cam
- Of Programmers and Architects
- VA Sonogram Law - Sharing Stories
- But is it Jaywalking?
- Parenting 101: Know the plotline *before* renting the Pixar Film
- Hacking Homelessness
- It's a Boy! He's Seven!
- Day 1: Running with Minimalist Running Shoes
- Perfect Ice Skating Weather
- Advice to an Up-and-Coming Programmer
- Instant Steganography
- Ignore the Dead End and Expect Lots of Hills - An Excellent DC / Arlington Bike Route
- EOS t3i Manual Mode Tip (or, why reading the manual is a good thing)
- A Great Hike Through Great Falls
- Caption Me, Kids Edition
- College Park Aviation Museum - A Kid Friendly Hit
- The Washington Post Siteseeing Guide
- Stat of the Day: 1 in 5 women in the U.S. has visited a Planned Parenthood health center at least once in her life
- Photos from a DC Bike Ride
- A Shameless Plug: Help Libre Clothing Get On The Shelves of Walmart
- Google Authenticator as a Backup for ssh Keys
- Hamentaschen in One Picture
- The Question Not Asked: Contraception Edition
- A visit with Georgia
- The Twins turn 3 and Tzipora is super cute
- Running with a Camera: Canal and Cemetery Edition
- When Winter Was Winter
February 2012
- On Becoming Chef Ben, or My Very First Cooking Class
- Useful Object of the Day: Hand Sanitizer
- Summer in DC in February?!
- From Key Bridge to Rock Creek Trail, a Fun One Hour'ish Run
- The First Three Steps to a Successful Passover
- The $100 Laptop Project is Alive and Innovating
- I Have To Do This: S24O
- I Will Never Do This. Or anything like it.
- What 8 Years (or so) of Technology Looks Like
- Stripe.com: A hacker friendly Credit Card processor
- Review: Canon 55-250mm IS II Lens
- Getting Google Authenticator and Apache to Cooperate on CentOS
- A Moment to Kvell
- The Bat Mitzvah Begins
- Song of the Day: Wireless in Heaven
- Some Initial Thoughts on R7RS
- Stat of the Day: 53% of infants born in the US are on WIC
- Sweet, Sweet Dieting Advice
- Funny Because It's True: Freelancer Fred
- Grandpa Would Agree: Vodka can improve your problem solving skills
- Churches, Contraception and My Blood Pressure
- Women Finally Get Their Revenge On Men
- More Running With a Camera
- More Photography From A Run - Arlington Edition
- Gotcha of the Day: Fighting with WordPress's wpautop
- Iwo Jima at Night with a Camera Phone
- ASUS u46e-bal7 - Silly Name, Super Fine Laptop
- DC Through A Fudgecam
- Super Bowl Recap
- And That's A Wrap
- Friday Funnies
- What I Want From A President
- Of Furnaces and Programmers
- Review: The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-Distance Motorcycling's Endless Road
- All Pumped Up, Version 2.0
- The Perfect Night For A Run
January 2012
- Boy Scout Move of the Day: Installing a ResQMe
- The Moon is Wrong, Palin was Right
- An IT Thumb Drive Toolkit and Making It Invisible
- Go Ahead, Just Try To Enter this CAPTCHA
- Welcoming Our New Baby (No, not *that* kind of baby)
- Useful Object of the Day: Tin Foil
- My Dozen Lines of Code
- Gotcha of the Day: Internet Explorer Forgets Flash Webcam Settings
- Site of the Day: tineye.com
- Santorum's Ignores His Teachable Moment
- Why My County Is Cooler Than Your County
- Wanted: Twitter Search Results to Speech App
- The Question Not Asked: Newt Edition
- My Lesson From Kodak
- Review: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
- Music Source of the Day: Dubstep.net
- Phone Friday: Smart AudioBook Player
- The Anti-Bag, Hacker Friendly Furoshiki
- Artist of the Day: Dirty South
- Two Videos To Make You Smile
- Where does all our crap come from?
- Being The Press - A Counter Protest Hack
- For a Good Time Call: 240-396-4186
- The Family That Rides Together...
- Two Brown Sign Gems: Patuxent Research Refuge & The National Cryptologic Museum
- Definition: Brown Sign Road Trip
- 4 Steps to Getting An Idea From Your Brain to A Developer's Brain
- 3 Things I Learned About the Iowa Caucuses
- A Racket Friendly Super-Tiny Logo Implementation
- An Arlington Achivement, Even While Tempting The Evil Eye
- Bringing In The New Year
- New Year's Day Hike: Little Bennett Regional Park