Ry4an's Unblog

After watching a video from Defcon 18 and seeing a tweet from Steve Losh I decided to finally set up an automatic SSH tunnel from my home server to my traveling machines.

Previously I mentioned I was importing the full corpus of BoingBoing posts into MonogoDB, which went off without a hitch.

I want to play around with Rogue by the Foursquare folks, but first I needed a decent sized collections of items in a MongoDB.

I needed to implement the algorithm in Practical Traffic Analysis Extending and Resisting Statistical Disclosure in a hurry, so I turned to my old friend Perl.

I'm thus far thrilled with blohg as a blogging platform.

Distributed version control systems have revolutionized how software teams work, by making merges no longer scary.

This blog started out called the unblog back when blog was a new-ish term and I thought it was silly.

I heard someone in IRC saying that the mercurial test suite was bogging down theirlaptop, so I set up a quick push-test service for the mercurial crew.

I park in the #mercurial IRC channel a lot to answer the easy questions, and on that comes up often is, "How can I create a remote repository over HTTP?".

I'm a huge fan of Grand Central's call screening features.

On July 29th, Kate gave birth to Sasha Megan Bauer Brase.

Last year I read about home carbonation, and looking at the amount of club soda Kate and I buy it made sense.

To look at this long neglected unblog one would thing I've stopped doing things, but quite the contrary there's been so very much doing of things that there's been no time for posting.

My company, Swarmcast, announced one of our first public releases today.

Between telecom troubles, warranty repairs, botched on line orders, and marriage related changes in insurance, mortgage, and bank accounts I've spent a lot of time on the phone with customer service representatives lately.

I forwarded a Simon Delivers order receipt email on to a friend, and he was able to view the order without being logged in as me.

My favorite book in the Wren Hollow Elementary school library was The Gadget Book by Harvey Weiss.

This one's dumb.

Years ago I had a bad movie viewing experience I can't actually recall at Har Mar Theater in Roseville.

This weekend I put in a Honeywell 360A whole house humidifier.

If things have been a little sparse around here over the last year or so it's because outside of work the bulk of my organizational and creative energies have been going into the planning of our wedding.

We've got an old lighting fixture for our front porch, which we didn't want to replace with an ugly motion light.

When I don't post here in a while it either means I'm not building anything new or that I'm too busy to write about what I am doing.

This weekend was full of discoveries involving ivy and stucco and removing the former from the later.

There's a purchase agreement in place for the condo, and it's time to organize the moving extravaganza.

After moving into the house I started a series of small home improvement tasks.

Google has a new calendar service, and it's great.

After a lot of cleaning, painting, and decorating my condo is finally on the market.

Last week Kate, Natz, and I painted a few more rooms, added handles to the cabinets, added some bookshelves, and did a lot of minor repairs around the condo in preparation for selling it.

I'm finally tackling all the little projects I always meant to do around the house in preparation for selling it.

Wikis, like ry4an.org, are websites meant to be easily edited.

My Roomba had been on the fritz lately.

Kate Bauer and I put together the vanity/informational website for our wedding.

Years back I wrote an IRC nick tracking script.

Yesterday I got the warranty replacement machine for my (company's) Dell X300 laptop.

My email server is configured such that email to ry4an-anything@ry4an.org gets correctly delivered to me.

A little googling shows I'm the first person to (publically) coin the phrase pocket pair palsy to describe the adrenaline powered tremors poker players get when they've got a good hand.

At the haloween party we got a keg of New Castle, but most folks went for the mixed drinks or the bottled beer.

Since this post I've upgraded my mailman installation to a newer version, which allows me to automatically reject messages from non-subscribers without having to resort to external scripting.

Last weekend Bridget, Joe, and I threw our annual Halloween party.

I hacked the MonthCalendar macro for moin moin to include some javascript which includes a sidebar built from a RSS feed.

Earlier this month some friends and I hiked across Isle Royale in lake Superior.

Again, it probably doesn't exactly meet the "things I've created" criteria for this website, but I just couldn't help but post this one.

A few months back Kate Bauer and I hosted a BBQ at her place.

I really need to sleep in once a week, and I actually get to once a month.

On Sunday Kate Bauer and I ran and participated in a double blind random taste test of the various shades of Coca-Cola.

I've been hooked on MTN's televised scrabble since Kate Bauer and I stumbled across it a few weeks back.

I'm a happy Netflix user.

There's a ton of poker time software out there and even some nifty looking dedicated hardware.

The policy here at the UnBlog is that I only write up things I've created -- not just things I've seen.