I’ve spent a good deal of time explaining to friends and family what it is I do. They know that I’m involved with the web to some degree, but don’t really understand the whole SensorLogic concept. It’s probably my fault that I don’t convey the business concept very well, and I normally compare [...]

It’s the little things that make me smile. A friend of mine was in Mountain View today and he picked up the access point listed below. This is a screen of Google’s unsecured wireless network with SSID “GoogleWifi”. Random, but cool nonetheless.

Today I needed to convert a WMA file to MP3 format for use in Flash. I thought about downloading a converter, but then realized that trusty ole FFmpeg could do the trick. I’ve mainly worked with video files so wasn’t 100% certain how to work with audio only. I came to find [...]

I’m amazed at how difficult it is to sell a car without going to a dealership or using a 3rd party service like CarMax. I’d rather not get taken to the cleaners using a “middle man”, but it definitely eliminates a good bit of hassle. The point of this post is that we’re [...]

If you’re really bored then feel free to check out my blip of a recent quail hunt in South Texas. It was an incredible time with family and friends! Oh yeah, and a reminder of what a rusty shot I am. I definitely need to spend more time at Elm Fork.

I also [...]

I’ve been working with a Ruby script that inserts data into MySQL.  This data can contain all sorts of weird characters and then one that recently wrecked havoc on my insert was the backslash.  As you may know, under normal MySQL circumstances a single backslash (\) will need to be escaped with a double (\\).  [...]

Every now and then a great video comes along that I just have to tell my friends and family about. This Kodak video demonstrates that if you don’t adapt to the changing technology you’ll get left behind. This made me think for a moment what the heck has Kodak been up to? [...]

It always seems that I never have enough time (and money) to play with all the cool toys out on the market. Just when I think I have enough hobbies there’s always something bigger and better that comes along. Tonight I stumbled across the iRobot Create and am tempted to place my order [...]