Several people have asked me what it was like to write a tech book so I thought I’d describe the overall process for the benefit of others who are considering it. Getting the Gig The deal came about in a roundabout way. […]
When I was in High School, I did pretty well in AP English, but it wasn’t entirely deserved. Much of the class involved reading something and writing an interpretation. Every time our teacher (the extraordinary Doc Taylor) would tell us the correct […]
Yesterday I bought a new video card for my “I hate my new TiVo and want to build my own” project. Unfortunately, it only had S-Video out and my TV only has RCA and Coax in. So I headed to my friendly […]
I finally bought my PowerBook — it’s been about 6 years since I bought a Mac. Those who know me know that I will go to great lengths to get a deal. I was especially concerned with this purchase because I figure […]
When I was a freshman at Stanford, there was no greater off-campus pleasure than a trip to Juice Club (now Jamba Juice). Since I didn’t have a car or an overwhelming desire to walk, these trips were infrequent, but always memorable. One […]
I like to provide Marni with enough New Yorkness in California so that she’s not miserable from all the liberal hippy freaks here. I’ve found that one of the best ways to do that is to take her to an Oakland A’s […]
Some time last year, I was giving my friend Jared a ride to the train station from work. As we approached a red light at the corner of Shoreline Road and Marine World Parkway in Belmont, the driver of the car in […]
Last week, I made the annual mistake of installing the lastest version of Norton SystemWorks on my main desktop PC. The next day, my automated backups from the PC to my Linux server stopped working. I got a distressing backup report email […]
Since I have a 4 letter Yahoo! id, I used to receive random messages from time-to-time. Not spam, just people who had the wrong address. I generally replied as if I was the intended recipient, embarassing the sender, ccing my coworkers for […]
I don’t really drive very much, since we are a proud one-car family. Most days, I take the train to work. In January, however, a friend of mine let me borrow his car while he was out of the country. The very […]