Last night, my computer fell asleep and I decided not to wake it. Experience taught me that Hibernate was much more reliable but I decided, eh, it's already Sleeping and I should be too. This morning, after a public transit meltdown in San Francisco, I made it into work a mere 3 minutes before the managing partner was …

Yesterday, while eating and drinking in North Beach SF, I stumbled upon an event put on by Jon Brumit called "Bring Your Own Big Wheel." What a trip :-D Imagine adults, dressed up as super heros and other oddities, racing big wheels down a very steep, very windey road. There were a ton of wipe-outs and …

Aw yaille! I just wrote up a whole explanatory blog post then lost it so this one will likely be brief... or not. Recently, we found that one of our DNS servers was resolving external hostnames unacceptably slow -- about 5 seconds, give or take. The resolution was so slow, in fact, that all of the clients hopped on to …

I've loved my laptop since the day we met. If you are in the market for a fast, lightweight, decent looking computer, you too may be happy with a Dell XPS M1210. As I mentioned in some previous posts, my machine has the following specs: Core 2 Duo 2Ghz with 4MB onboard cache, 2GB RAM, 7200 RPM 80GB HDD, 256MB nVdia …

Note from the future (2025): This post is from 2007. The TrueCrypt project was abruptly discontinued in 2014 and is no longer considered secure. The recommended and actively maintained successor is VeraCrypt, which is based on the original TrueCrypt code. Please use VeraCrypt for any new encryption needs. Just as I …

Back on April 1st, 2004, I was dating a woman who was a fan of Showtime's new lesbo show, The L-Word. She subscribed to Showtime specifically for the show but missed it one night. Not having experienced the pleasures of TiVO, she asked me to download a copy from the Internet. She was usually a little too paranoid to …

Tomorrow, the University I attend will be getting "The Internets." They'll have not just one Internet installed, but two! Ever since I heard of the project sometime in 1999, I've wanted to attend a school awesome enough to participate. I can't wait to download scholarly papers and what not at 10 Gbps!

Okay, so me and Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine aren't best friends, or even friends at all, but I'll be seeing him speak tomorrow at Startup School in Palo Alto at Stanford University. I don't recall how I came across the URL but seeing that it was close by and a bunch of badasses were speaking, I …

I've got another final due tomorrow, is it obvious I'm procrastinating? But seriously, if your city has Zipcar and you don't have wheels, I highly recommend using their service. I chose them over CityCarShare and FlexCar and I've been really satisfied. Just last weekend, I rented a Volvo for 2 days and safely headed up …

My blogless friend Zach shared this great tip with me: if you would like to test ping times to a machine from an outside source, telnet to route-server.ip.att.net. There, you will be presented with a command line which allows you to ping from the AT&T servers.