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Francis's Avatars

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 04:43:02 GMT

My various avatars and profile pics over the years. ## The original (2001) ## Vectorized (2010) ## Commissioned (2015) ## Pixel Drawn (2018) ## Smiling Pho...

About Francis Gulotta

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 04:43:02 GMT

Hi, I'm Francis! I spend my days building engineering teams and my nights hacking on software or electronics projects. This is my blog. You can dig back to 200...

Making Some Shelves

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT

A build log about a smaller project that took my mind off of everything.

Releasing on GitHub Actions

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT

I wanted to make a "CLI Tool" for orchestrating a "Website" deployment to a web host and I wanted to build and use this CLI tool in GitHub actions. GitHub has a...

TIL: Learning Together

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT

TIL is a weekly learning event that I like to run with my teams. Every friday for 30-45 minutes we share 5 minute presentations on something we learned that wee...

Distant Horizons - Francesco Gulotta

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT

To celebrate my grandfather Francesco Gulotta's birthday, I am sharing a translation of his autobiography. It's a incredible story of his escape from fascism in...

Flashing the Sonoff S31 with ESPHome

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

A friend of mine turned me on to Home Assistant which is a wonderful open source home automation platform. It's privacy forward (a hard requirement for me) and ...

Maintaining a Twenty Year Blog

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

This past April Roborooter turned 21 years old. (First Post!) I started it as a fork of a friends blog and it was a place for my group of friends to post updat...

Wasm is the new CGI

Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT

I read a wonderful twitter thead about CGI and the birth of the web and this triggered a thought I've been kicking around. > Wasm is the new CGI And to be cle...

How to Stop Using Passwords

Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT

I've been softly recommending people start using `1Password` for the past 5-10 years. I'm no longer going to be soft about it, you have to stop using passwords,...

Node SerialPort v10 has been released 🎉

Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT

(Cross posted from our Open Collective Page.) This past year has brought a lot of really good change to Node Serialport. First and foremost we have a new maint...

Build Jeeps Not Ferraris

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT

This video dates back to around 2010 from an unknown source but remains my favorite. I give a version of this talk at every company I join. It's nothing new, bu...

Inside Out Async

Sat, 21 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

I nerdsniped myself and made a handy async utility that turns Promises and AsyncGenerators inside out. This is very handy for testing and useful if you're done ...

Lessons Learned Testing Serverless Libraries with Architect

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

I'm building a library to be used on Amazon Lambda and the hardest part of testing a library designed to run in a serverless environment is having a local envir...

Livestream: WebAssembly GraphQL Client

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT

I met Connor Hicks through work. We both work on webassembly powered projects in our day job and he builds a really cool platform called Suborbital. Which you...

Livestream: Gregor on Github Actions for building SerialPort

Tue, 04 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT

My friend with Gregor Martynus asked on twitter if anyone needed help with github actions. "There are no unworthy ideas" he said. So I raised my hand. I need he...

Testing Architect with Jest

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT

I'm building a small project with architect a lightweight framework to manage AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and few other services to make serveless web apps. I wanted ...

Async Rust and Node SerialPort

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT

This year I took some time around the holidays to do some learning. Like last year I dove into rust but I didn't go into it cold this time. I was gifted a "live...

A Product Team Righting Themselves

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

My Product Manager Skylar asked me today to recap how our product team righted themselves after a year of hardship and they’ve been so good for so long I had fo...

Learning Rust

Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT

For the second year in a row, for my birthday, I took some time off work to learn some new things. This year it was Rust. (Last year it was the DHT Kademlia) I ...

How To Make Your Website Truly Serverless

Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT

As of today you can read this website without a web server by visiting dat://roborooter.com. If that link doesn't work for you, you'll need a DAT capable browse...

How To Stay Technical While In Management

Sat, 09 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT

I wrote this for a 5 minute lightening talk at a local tech leadership meetup. I code. At my previous jobs I coded 30-50% of my time. I would take non mission ...

The Button Toy Project

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

I decided to build a toy for my son. Buttons lights, the works. I’m far from done.

The Serial Mouse Project

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

I spent a few weeks making an old Serial Mouse work. I've been tweeting a log of what I've done so far and I already wrote a piece on the serial mouse protocols...

😃 Vats

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Love and pain and war, all things I missed. Since the vats became standard in all low income housing I haven’t needed any of them. We’re all fed, we’re all heal...

Serial Mice Protocols

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT

I remembered there was such a thing as a serial mouse and I wondered how they worked. A bit of googling found me this link (which as of this posting has an SSL ...

Linux Laptops

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT

I asked people on the internet for help choosing a linux laptop. People had opinions. The laptops people suggested; * The Purism librem-13 * System76 Gala...

Serialport Spring Update

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Serialport turns 9 this year. Back when it started NodeJS was a different environment than it is now. JavaScript was a different programming language than it is...

Kademlia: A study

Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

This week I'm at the Recurse Center as part of the "Mini 2 Batch". I'll be spending my time researching and implementing the Kademlia Distributed Hash Table. DH...

8 Bit Firmata

Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

The Firmata protocol is used for a variety of uses, from home automation to robots. Any time a computer needs to control a low-power device you might find it be...

MANIAC

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

There's so much about this tv show that I enjoyed. The 1980s futurism, the fact they didn't force a love interest, how every device talks or has music, even the...

Why are you hosting your own Redis?

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Someone asked me on a mailing list if I worry about reaching my team's limit in our ability to manage Redis. I wrote a bit about why I think our architecture he...

Async Generators

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT

I started `streaming-iterables` a few months ago to learn how to use `async-generators` and it was hard. The concepts all sound very simi...

We live in Memory

Wed, 11 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT

(This is part of a talk I gave at ManhattanJS of the same name which you can find at github.) Oh happy day! I'm getting read! My day had come! So many times th...

Voting Machines

Sat, 05 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT

God help me if any of these have a serialport. **Update**: They do have serialports! I noticed this document about the "findings from the Defcon 25 Voting Mac...

Font Face

Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT

I got a new work laptop so it was time to bikeshed about my setup. I've switched to zsh (oh-my-zsh), iTerm2 (I finally get why you all like it!) and my colors a...

First Commit in NodeJS Core!

Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT

I've got a few commits around Node.js's related projects. One or two on npm, countless on node-serialport, a few on node-pre-gyp, many others. It's been a nice ...

Parting with Bocoup: the Best Place to Shape the Future

Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Last year Bocoup offered me my dream job. I was trepidatious at first, my company had just gone under, I felt disconnceted from my personal life and I wasn't ab...

Sparkfun + Bocoup

Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT

I wrote a little blog post over at the Sparkfun Blog about how our work on the Johnny-Five inventors kit was guided by our love of the NodeBots community. I'm ...

Node Serialport v2.1.0

Sun, 10 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT

A few weeks ago I started maintaining node serialport after a long hiatus. We hadn't had a release in about a year and we had some outstanding bugs that I wante...

React Redux Robots a Nodebots Adventure with Missile Launchers

Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT

I made a little presentation, a hack, a spike into the world of the unknown. I wanted to see if I could power a johnny-five robot with redux a powerful state ma...

Modules, Packages and candy, oh my!

Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Tonight I gave a talk at QueensJS. It was my first time speaking there and it completes my trifecta of "borojs" speaking events. (I've now spoken at BrooklynJS,...

The Internet I Wish We Had: Making Toast

Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT

"Why is the light in the refrigerator purple? It looks like I'm making a breakfast for zombies!" I grab the makings for a mushroom cheddar omelet. We're runnin...

The Internet I Wish We Had: Texting

Sun, 04 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT

I hung up my phone and started typing. "Jason just called me, ideas for dinner before the movie?" and sent it to Sara. My phone know's a lot about Sara and wher...

Ducktyping. Quack.

Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT

I was working on one of our projects when I happened to run across some code that set off my rubber ducky detector. It's a page that displays the days productio...

Arranging Complex Factories (for fun and profit)

Fri, 15 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT

`FactoryGirl` the oddly named testing tool for database models is something we use a lot at Wizard Development. If you're unfamiliar with how it works, I strong...

Noob to Wizard: The Journey

Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT

It's been around six months since I quit my job as a PSI Analyst. For those of you unfamiliar with the terminology, it's pretty much a glorified title for an Ex...

The Winnower API

Fri, 20 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT

We recently added an API to The Winnower to support our new Wordpress Plugin. It was a great experience in both product and software design. Wordpress support i...

Teaching with Girl Develop It

Fri, 20 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT

\ Recently, I've had the opportunity to teach the Intro to HTML and CSS course with Girl Develop It, a non profit organization that welcomes all, but focuses on...

Cleaning up your views with Simple Delegators

Fri, 20 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT

While working on my pet project for matching tennis partners I decided to make a match history page. It displays a player's recent matches and some information ...

Steam Heat

Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT

My home has radiators that are 70ish years old. I'm going to guess the air vents are 10-30 years old. It's supposed to let the air out while the pipe fills with...

Money Transferring

Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT

I was expressing frustration with moving money around the other day and was asked to share what I knew. This is an incomplete list of ways to move money, and th...

Wizard.Codes

Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Lately most of my writing has been over at Wizard Development's blog. Some of it (about building the business) might be interesting to you. Some of it (about bu...

Nodebots NYC {2015-001}

Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Earlier this week we had this year's first NodeBots NYC event! Andrew and Myself were happy to host. We need to thank About.com for giving us food, space and he...

2014 Year End Review

Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT

In 2014 our plan was twofold; Help small business's dreams come true and to be a model for how we'd like our industry to operate. In 9 months we came close to a...

The MEGABUS

Sun, 14 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Rick was driving north on I-95, he had to find an uplink or this whole trip had been for nothing. "Rose, scan the vehicles ahead." His onboard computer sprang i...

Debugging Robots

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT

I was recently helping Sara debug an issue with a project for an upcoming book she's writing a chapter in. She was using Johnny-Five and a Spark Core to remotel...

Conference Video roundup

Sun, 21 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT

I have a video of my talk at RobotsConf 2013! I've also got a video of my informal session at JSCONF 2014! And lastly (and most excitingly) I have a video Sa...

Migrating Legacy PHP Apps to Heroku

Sat, 06 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT

There are lots of ways to host, deploy and maintain applications. We often use Heroku because the tradeoff of control gives you a lot of operational benefits th...

Code Review: Cleaning up the Environment

Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT

I've been reviewing a lot of projects lately and I thought I should share what I look for when evaluating the code quality and maturity of a project. My team is...

Wizard Development StatusBot

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Any sufficiently mature development team eventually has someone who makes a build status indicator. This one is ours. The WizardDev StatusBot shows us the curr...

Ghostalk 21: with Francis Gulotta

Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT

I had the absolute pleasure to join the people at Ghostalk the other day for their last episode of the season. They let me talk aboutrobots, Wizard Development,...

A Bit About What We Do

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT

I got into a conversation with someone about their development team. They specifically are hiring a 50/50 mix of senior and junior developers, to help with cost...

Hi

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT

We're Wizard Development. We'll be posting about software development, robotics, workflow, and how technology changes our lives. Talk to you soon.

The One Place to Hang Out

Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT

I've been making my way through this presentation by Maciej Cegłowski > Some kinds of services are just crying out for decentralization. Fifty years from now, ...

All the parts

Fri, 30 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Yesterday at JSConf 2014 we had a nodebots event. (We also had noderockets, nodeboats and nodecopters.) One of my favorite bots is below. We have a lot of diff...

Our Two Visions

Sun, 16 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

I've been doing a lot of outward thinking\* lately about Wizard Development's vision. "Vision" means a lot of things to a lot of people, so I should specify. To...

Multiple Domain Tracking with Segment.IO and Mixpanel

Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

> This post was written in 2014 and it's advice is absolutely less relevant today, nevertheless it's one of the top search results for this problem. At One Mon...

Wild West Mail Delivery in the Age of Bitcoin

Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

If you saw me talk at ManhattanJS you know I have a dream about a decentralized mesh network that supports decentralized applications that cater to our decentra...

NPM Wishlist

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT

I don't write a ton of nodejs modules. I work on a few\*, and I don't even work on them as much as I like. However I do end up using a ton of them. Here are som...

The internet is fucked?

Wed, 26 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT

On the NY Hack and Tell mailing list we've been discussing the recent news of Netflix paying Comcast for bandwidth. The two sides of the debate seem to be such;...

CORS issues always take 2 more hours than I think

Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Protip: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing headers are sent slightly different between Firefox and Chrome when hosts have a non standard port.

30 Years and Donors Choose

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Today is my birthday. Last year you, my friends, helped me donate almost $4000 to both the Brooklyn Free School and Room To Read. It was amazing. I've never bee...

Static Vanity Domains

Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT

I gave a quick lightening talk last night at Brooklyn Internets. In fact I sponsored the event. It's the ...

She looks like a good engineer

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT

A while back I was hiring for a junior spot on my team at a largish company. I had been at it for over two months. There had been lots of recruiters, tons of re...

Talk: Networking in JS - Decentralized Chat Service @brooklyn_js

Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT

I gave a talk at BrooklynJS last night on making a decentralized chat server in JS. It's similar and compatible with my ruby talk. We didn't get to play with it...

Getting Started with Electronics (hardware)

Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT

I've been asked a few times what to buy when starting with electronics, especially when it comes to micro-controllers and sensors. You're going to end up buying...

EEE - Presentation at RobotsConf 2013

Sun, 08 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Yesterday I gave a talk at Robots Conference called "Electrical Engineering Excitement" or EEE!. You can download my talk in PDF or Keynote (for fancy animatio...

Talk: Networking in Ruby @GA

Wed, 04 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Tonight I gave a talk at General Assembly on making a decentralized chat server in Ruby. I wanted to talk on something that wasn't web development as we webdevs...

Dependency Injection, Fake Timers and Testing in Johnny-Five

Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Yesterday marked the end of a several week sprint to improve tests around Johnny-Five. My goal started with fixing an inconstantly failing test, innocent enough...

Focus and Energy Data

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

For some reason tonight all I want to do is figure out how to answer the question "Where is my power coming from?" from the following nyiso market data. It does...

Two Dorby Videos

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Dorby: The DoorBot

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

I was part of a hack weekend recently that Levo League hosted. During the event I made us Dorby a door answering robot. We had a problem at the Levo League wit...

Meraki Wireless AP's and Routers a Case Study

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Meraki is a "100 Percent Cloud Managed" switch, this means you have less control in the long run but possibly more options and everything should be easier use. ...

The REST Dialogues

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT

My favorite "exclusive nine-part dialogue with an imaginary eBay Architect" on REST architectures. The Rest Dialogs

You Laugh You Lose

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Recently I won a trip to NodeConf (a conference about nodeJS) by making a cool little game called "You Laugh You Lose". It was created in 17 hours at NodeJitsu'...

Technology breaks

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT

"Technology breaks, it aint good, we don't look forward to it, but technology breaks. What happens next is what matters, how you escalate it." - Thomas Joyce K...

Flat sorting graphs

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This is really cool. Shows how different sorting algorithms work. Visualising Sorting Algorithms\

Classified ads the backbone of Democracy

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This post has been a long time coming. Its intent is to convey an idea. The idea is that we need investigative journalism to have a productive government. The p...

Value of information

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

> The value of a piece of information is proportional to the chance that you will act on it times the benefit of acting on it.\ > \-ejames

three kinds of days

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

> I split my week into 3 kinds of days - intention, attention and ascension - purpose, focus and the climb.\ > \-John Jantsch

rbrtr.com

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

I'm going to be cross posting my tech related posts over at rbrt.com. On one hand I want a separate place for my advertised work in the tech community and on th...

Libraries

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Recently I discovered Room to Read. It's a global non profit started by an ex-marketing director of Microsoft that creates schools and libraries in third world ...

Freelancers Blues

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

> Freelancers Blues: The thought that at any given moment, at any given day, you could be working.\ > \-Francis Gulotta

Design is about supplying Intent

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

"Design is about supplying Intent." -John Hockenberry's Dad This short talk has h...

AT&T NOC

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

I can't imagine that the big screens are that helpful, but they are cool.

Team Cards

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A friend of mine recently made some really nice personal business cards on moo.com. Crazy nice printing, nice thick stock, large high quality photo, double side...

SNMP Behavior Wishlist

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

From my few years of working in a NOC I've seen a lot of stupid behaviors from devices in regards to monitoring and notifications. Here's my current list of gri...

Life in the NOC

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

As you may know I work in a Network Operation Center or as my business card says "THE NOC". What is life like in the NOC? My team is responsible for monitoring...

Hugo

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Go watch Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" based off the book "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick. Don't however watch any trailers or pay attention to any ...

Umbrellas

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Good umbrellas are rare. Today I was coveting the BLUNT MINI. An umbrella that will probably never break and satisfies my inner engineer. It's designed to have ...

The Feynman Series - Beauty - Honors - Curiosity

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

I've been reading a lot about Richard Feynman lately. I found this breathtaking. I love how this man looks at the world. It makes me so happy. A project called...

On Investigative Journalism

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

I was listening to some dam fine journalism the other day. Don't see the player? Try their website. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/430/...

On charging money

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

(This post is for all you freelancers out there.) I got work consulting right out of college. I quit school. It was more giving up spending mtoney on something...

Birds

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Herd these little guys on my way home the other day. No idea what kind of birds they are but they sure are loud. Good thing they're cute. They hung around a whi...

Wheels

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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Your daily fortune

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Your daily fortune: (917) 652-6846 (tron is brought to you by daft punk)

Don't Mess With a Draper

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Long week

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

It's been a long week. Everyone (even Alex) is OK. I wanted to thank everyone who's helped out and everyone's who's offered. We have amazing friends.

Coming soon to a party near you

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

I got one of them Drink Shields and assembled it today. It uses a Alcohol Gas Sensor MQ-3 to take readings and displays them on a light bar that goes up to 11. ...

10 years

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

It's been 10 years since I first purchased roborooter.com. =) My new job has me tired but excited. It's got me up at 6am and and working all day long. It's a w...

Podcasts

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

I was recently asked for some podcast recomendations. I listen to a bunch of them. This Week in Tech\ http://twit.tv/ (You might also like This week in Google)...

Perl Array Conventions

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

`$array[0] # First element of @array @array[0] # Slice of only the First element of @array %array[0] # Syntax error $array->[0] # First element of an array refe...

I love the summer and airplanes!

Sat, 22 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

I went looking for balsa wood planes but Neargaurd pharmacy's toy shop only had Gayla styrofoam and sticker planes. As much as I love the powered balsa wing gli...

Ask vs Guess

Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

I stumbled upon this discussion today where someone brings up the difference between people raised in an "Ask Culture" or a "Guess Culture". I like this thought...

Gource output of one of my latest projects

Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

I was reading this and got inspired to try it out on my own code. This is me (and my laptop who didn't have the user correctly set) working on a project for ...

The Technician

Sun, 09 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Le Technicien by Simon Olivier Fecteau > You must be the change you want to see in this world. - (often atteributed to) Gandhi

Deepwater Horizon

Sun, 09 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Union Forever Video

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

I found a video worthy of updating my very popular post on the White Stripes song, ...

American Express and Security

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

*This originally started as an email to some coworkers, but I think people here might find it more interesting.* If you have an amex online account they limit ...

Brooklyn Technical High School Alumni Today!

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

I hate the feeling of being sold. I've been getting a lot of emails and letters in the mail from my Alumni Association asking for me to update my info. Let me ...

H2K2 - Email Hacking

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

I found my original post from two years ago on this subject. I didn't tell the story then, so consider this an update. ;-) This is an old one, we used ettercap...

Haiti - 2010

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This week Haiti was destroyed. Most of the country. Haiti

This American Life #348: Tough Room - Act 4: Malcolm Gladwell

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

I've been sitting on this one a while. Its a story about how not to act in a newsroom. This American Life #348: Tough Room - Act 4: Malcolm Gladwell

Cat in RAW

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

I like to think RAW images are a far superior way to take images because you get more data and can mess with the white balances etc. The problem always being I ...

My thougts on the kindle and techonology advancing past books

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

I write more for other people's blogs then I do my own. > When I think of the Kindle, I think of an awesome device (the big one is wonderful to use) with a fre...

Lessons learned in babies

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

She is beautiful.
I got to hear her first cry.

I just spent a long 26 hours away from home and like everybody else who's heard of pregnancy I've...

The Whore of Mensa

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

> The Whore of Mensa\ > A Short Story by Woody Allen > > From his book "Without Feathers", Random House, 1975 (tr.it.: Citarsi Addosso, Bompiani, 1976)\ > Estim...

It's moving day, you don't have to go home but it certainly is not here.

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

I'm cross posting this from Facebook. It's that time again, We're moving and I'm calling in all favors. Move in the past year? We probably helped you. If not, ...

The Guy I Almost Was

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

I just read a short comic that caught my eye. It's a story about a guy around my age and how he manages to change his situation. Apparently it's a bit old and h...

Walking With a Ghost

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Walking With a Ghost is a mostly live album (EP) by the White Stripes. The title song "Walking With a Ghost" is a nice cover of Tegan and Sara. The musical styl...

Telescopic Shower

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On a side note trying to put html/js in a wordpress post is a bad experience. If the iframe doesn't work try it ...

Three Strikes and you're out (of internet)

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Torrent Freak writes about a counter measure: > Yesterday we reported that a provision in the revamped French “3 strikes” bill will allow for the punishment of...

This One Is For Brian

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This just in!

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
I felt this was an appropriate rebuttal to my last post. I also love Pictures for Sad Children\ (if that link ever breaks)

MJ Had A Patent

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Michael Jackson died yesterday prompting a DDOS attack on the worlds news organizations and Google. Whatever became of him doesn't change the fact he knew what ...

Francis'one'arms

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
I took an arm off my chair today so I could use my mouse and keep my arm at a decent level. The left one is for appearences and so I have something to lean on. ...

Official Moving Seals

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Found these from like 3 moves ago. Good times. \[gallery link="file"]

It's all about your point of view

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The Beatles are important to me. This game is an embodiment of them. \ You need JavaScript to view this post.