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Mount Fuji

Christchurch, New Zealand

#ThatWanakaTree

Mount Cook, New Zealand

On the way to Mount Cook

Over the years, I’ve primarily used bash with occassional forays into zsh (and oh-my-zsh). zsh never seemed significantly better than bash, and it introduced enough friction in writing and running scripts that I’d inevitably switch back to trusty bash aft…

Sky Blue Lake Back in early January my good friend Dave sent out an email to 20 or so people asking if anyone would be interested in doing the John Muir Trail with him.

A little late, but this is my 2014 Year in Review.

Lower Manhattan at Dusk, from the top of 30 Rockefeller Plaza

View from Brooklyn of the NYC New Year's Eve fireworks show Last night Rebecca and I watched the NYC New Year’s Eve fireworks show from our Brooklyn apartment.

NYC Snowflake

Chinatown Fishmonger

EC2 Disk Overview Amazon’s EC2 service is really neat, but its disk subsystem has some peculiarities that are not initially obvious.

Memory is really strange.

I went to Brussels last weekend for FOSDEM 2008, which was held at ULB Campus Solbosh.

Pretty scary stuff, even if you trust all of your users: victor@mercury ~ $ .

For the last few years I’ve been using Gmail exclusively and have been forwarding emails to @victortrac.com to my Gmail account.

There’s been a bunch of press lately about Google Reader’s new features, most notably the “Friends’ shared items” section and Profiles.

A few hours ago, Rebecca and I were walking through the Schwabstrasse S-bahn stop in Stuttgart, and as we reached the escalator to go up, we felt a cold wind coming down from the street level.

For a few days now, I’ve been unable to reach http://de.php.net, not because the site has been down but because of incorrect DNS configuration by de.php.net’s Germany host.

I’ve been mulling over upgrading my iPhone’s firmware to 1.1.1 for the last few weeks but have been put off by the complexity of it.

This is the first time I’ve been back in the States since the iPhone was released, and after getting a chance to play with one yesterday, I decided I had to go out and buy one today.

The Network is becoming more the Computer.

traffic on the brooklyn bridge

I upgraded my server’s apache from 2.0 to 2.2 today (see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html" target=_new”>Overview of new features in Apache 2.2) and it was painless except for a few minor hiccups.

auschwitz Rebecca and I went to Poland a few weeks back, and visiting Auschwitz is one of the most humbling experiences I’ve ever had.

A little bit of the YUI Library, lots of Drupal, and about two weeks of on and off work has resulted in a new theme for my site.

I shot this video while I was a DJ at WSBF, Clemson’s student run radio station.

I live in Germany but maintain a US-based VoIP number through a VoicePulse.com account.

Stuttgart has these wonderful little hidden little charms that make it a really great place to live.

I just came across Streamburst via Techcrunch.

The Samsung ML-2010 is a great bargain laserjet printer.

That’s my friend Tim with our final project as Clemson EE students back in 2004.

A few months ago I was asked if I could create a small website for my high school graduating class' 10 year reunion.

A few years ago a good friend and I were walking through Munich's famed Englischer Garten when we came across some guys surfing in a fast-flowing canal.

I am impressed.

I recently got back from visiting family in Ireland, and one of the things that I did during the trip was "fixing" the family's computer.

I recently got married, and one of the results of marriage is that you gain some new family members.

I recently blew away my completely setup Gentoo desktop when I decided I needed to rebuild on a new RAID5 array.

Maybe I’m just a big robotics nerd, but I actually rewound and repeatedly watched the actual moment where Asimo’s right leg collapses and he takes a nasty spill down the steps.

Apparently I’ve been to 11% of the world’s countries.

These crazy guys over at Acro-Base made this video of one of them ski-gliding down the Eiger.

Controversial "reporter" Borat goes to my home town and takes on Charleston's societal elite.

Transcript: HOST: I’m curious, have you ever googled anybody?

I stumbled upon This American Life back when I was still in college, when I used to regularly drive on Friday nights from Clemson, South Carolina to Davidson, North Carolina to visit my girlfriend at the time (who is now my wife).

Google Map’s cameras caught this bug in the midst of an attack on Stuttgart.

This Canadian RC modeler built this setup using gyroscopes attached to his virtual reality headgear, independently controlling the camera on the RC airplane, while a standard controller handles all the flight servos.

We've finally recieved our pictures from the photographer, over a month after our wedding (that's another blog entry).

It took 91 minutes, but Germany managed to pull it off in the end, and Stuttgart explodes in celebration.

Looking to kill a few minutes?