Eric Pollard, an OU graduate attending the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, encapsulates why I sometimes feel despair: I’m from Oklahoma. Which as of November 4th, is the reddest, most conservative state in the US (take that Utah!). It’s the home of Senator James Inhofe wh...

So I've had trouble walking for a few days, to the point where on Sunday, all I could do was lie in bed. Any sitting position not on the pillow-top bed was just too uncomfortable. Walking was quite difficult, but it took me a while to realize that it wasn't exactly that I couldn't put pressure on my...

Every couple of years, I need a small-signal NPN transistor or two.  Knowing that I'll continue to have need of such things, and given how cheap they are, I'll buy a goodly bag of 2N2222 / PN2222 parts, use the one or two that I need for the project at hand, and put the rest somewhere safe. The...

I'm preparing my oldish laptop for travel.  This process involves pulling the original 40G hard drive (dual-boot between the original Win XP and Kubuntu "Fussy Flounder") and installing a nice new 120G drive, then putting lots of lovely tools on it. The bare drive having been duly ins...

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As found and noted by Herr Gruber: Astute observation from Kottke: Other times, it’s not so fun running a visible site. Some people are determined to deliberately misunderstand much of what they encounter in life. Sometimes I have a hard time realizing that that’s their problem, not mine...

This should not be nearly as tear-jerking as it is. Even the Martha critics lose it towards the end of this one. (Via TRex.)...

Scott Adams: Recently I checked my blood pressure again and was horrified to see that I had shot past the borderline of hypertension and was well within the “prepare your will” category. The end was near. Suddenly food tasted better and I was filled with extra love for others. I put toge...

I'm thinking about starting a new "Things I learned when I was really sick" category to pass along what I learned when I had almost no energy for over a year, but I'm not sure how many posts there'd be. The constant fear of employer-based health insurance is that you're just one job mistake away fro...

As the restructuring of AGROS proceeds, and I approach the moment when it'll finally build again, ever more complications arise. The latest one has to do with the GCC support library for ARM targets. There are several variations of the ARM architecture: little-endian vs. big-endian, hardware floatin...