Work’s been super busy, so I had to put it off longer than I liked, but I finally got to test setting up a Lion OpenLDAP client. Success! OS X 10.7.3 finally fixes our problems. 10.7 and 10.7.1 were of course vulnerable to the widely publicized issue where it would accept any password after binding [...]

I just had to have it. A solar powered keyboard. I know what you’re thinking, but it can charge itself off indoor lighting. It’s called the Logitech K750 and it is officially rocking my world right now. It’s 2.4ghz wireless. It’s the thinnest keyboard I have ever owned. Did I mention it’s wireless? http://www.logitech.com/en-us/keyboards/keyboard/devices/k750-keyboard It’s [...]

This is a photograph of my grandmother from when she was just a little younger than I am now.

Some of you may have seen my frantic post on Facebook about my missing Threadless package. Well, I found it, and you’ll never believe where. This shrub looks perfectly innocent, right? Up close, still looking good… But wait, what’s this? Did they chuck it into the shrub? This is a really sturdy plant, by the [...]

I’ve been passing this sign for months now, maybe longer, and I finally decided it was time to get some photographic evidence. Don’t ask me about the “defence” misspelling. Perhaps they’re Canadian expatriates? And they even take Discover!

Last weekend, my mother delivered a belated birthday present: she reupholstered my couch cushions! In typical cat fashion, Sasha snuck into the shot. I didn’t notice her until after I uploaded the photo to my computer.

The Sieve of Eratosthenes, quite possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen all day. It’s a technique for visually selecting prime numbers very quickly.

Because the person with my username on Twitter is not me! I was doing a search on my username/domain name (diastelo) on Google, when I unexpectedly got a hit on a Twitter account. Sure enough, diastelo is taken on twitter.com, and it’s not me! (I run a search on my username a lot because it’s [...]

It’s been five days since I left my house (and counting!) From Blizard of 2010

Bastards smashed the passenger side window and stole my GPS. I couldn’t care less about replacing the GPS, but I’m pissed as hell about the broken window. It was parked right outside my house, too!