When Mark Walling created his Twittering dehumidifier, I decided to kick things up a notch by monitoring the actual level of the water. This is actually a fairly simple thing to do, electronically, but it still took me awhile to actually get a sufficien… more »

For awhile now, I've had that paranoia kicking in about my online data. Almost all of us have a lot of useful information out there that is entirely under someone else's control: if someone messes up, or the wrong component fails, or the wrong business… more »

A couple days ago, a brief IRC discussion ensued on the topic of cable modems, oversubscription, power levels, etc. Someone mentioned that they noticed their transmit power level increasing during peak hours, perhaps due to heavier traffic. I thought t… more »

The need for this will hopefully go away soon, but until then...After moving from Apache to lighttpd 1.4 on my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS system, I noticed that the thing that automatically posts photos from Flickr to my blog stopped working. This went on… more »

I have a few scripts that use the Google Data APIs to retrieve calendar information. One prints out a text agenda in a condensed format, perfect for carrying in a pocket; the other lets me retrieve all events on a particular date from my cellphone. Tha… more »

Over at RocWiki, we've been having some issues lately with trolls using Tor to create new accounts and wreak havoc upon the signal/noise ratio. While there's nothing that can't be fixed using reverts, most folks agree that the time would best be spent a… more »