Writing

November 30

A Fix for Unifi Controllers Not Taking Your Firewall Rules

November 17

Synchronizing Prompt, Terminal Emulator, and Tmux Colors

June 23

Powerwalls and Eversource Battery Demand Response - How Much Did I Make in 2022?

September 30

Amazon Thursday Night Football - A Bandwidth Story

November 26

A Better SSH for WSL2

May 1

Observations on owning a Tesla Powerwall

December 31

Technology Predictions for 2020

November 16

Leaving Watson Group - Saying Goodbye to a Job You Love

July 22

How I Bought a (Nearly) Anonymous VPN

July 17

Migrated Blog to Hugo

December 30

Open Source and Technology Predictions for 2014

November 21

Working on Thanksgiving - We're All Part of the Problem

October 6

Hacking JazzHub Projects From the Command Line

July 31

Recent Talk: Abusing the GitHub API and Graph Databases to Gain Insight About Your Project

April 17

New Paper: A Network of Rails: A Graph Dataset of Ruby on Rails and Associated Projects

March 6

The KTHXBAI Experiment

January 22

Looking for an Intern for Summer 2013

December 21

Rules for Recruiters, Vol 1: GPA Doesn't Matter If You Have a Ph.D.

December 4

30 Meters Underwater with a Dead Physical Layer Protocol

November 26

On the Facebook Terms of Service

May 13

Mining GitHub - Followers in Tinkerpop

May 11

Static Bloggin

January 28

I am not a climatologist, and neither are most of these people

January 10

Looking for Summer Interns in the Software Technology Group at IBM TJ Watson Research Center

January 3

A Review of 2011 Personal Development Goals

January 3

Open Source and Technology Predictions for 2012

January 2

A Review of Open Source Predictions for 2011

November 10

Guilt, Motivation, and Procrastination

September 23

Recent Academic Work: The Onion Patch and Engineering Software Engineering Teams

September 22

Graph Databases and Revision History

September 18

Observations on the Air France A380 and Its In Flight Entertainment System

May 10

Raid 1 Performance on Windows 7

April 18

Guilty Pleasures...

January 1

2011 Personal Development Goals

December 31

Open Source Predictions for 2011

December 31

A Review of Open Source Predictions for 2010

November 24

Do the new TSA AIT body scanners hurt more than they help?

March 3

ACM SIGS Style for Zotero

February 17

Dell Inspiron Zino HD and Failure

February 13

What Qualifies as an Open Source Project?

February 4

Command Line Updating Pages on Google Sites

December 31

Open Source Predictions for 2010

December 28

What the TSA has is a failure to communicate

December 14

Will hubris kill MySQL?

December 13

Wouldn't it be great if there was a StackOverflow for that?

December 6

Textile Markup in Trac

November 25

Shutting Down PennAve

October 1

Ohio LinuxFest 2009

September 15

Antifeatures in Free Software

September 8

How to Handle a Bug

May 8

Simple Full Disk Image Backups With dd

April 2

Iron April 2009

March 24

Safely Migrating Recordings in MythTV

March 20

Drobo as Primary Storage Considered Harmful?

March 15

Grad School is Where You Lay Your Head

February 5

Confusion Abounds! DTV Transition Delayed Until June 12. Or is it?

February 4

Taking "nice" Processes Into Account With Powernowd

February 2

Delay the DTV Transition Again?

January 21

Simple Script to Clean Up Your MP3 Directory

January 20

New Administration, New Website, and Lost Content

December 13

Pieces of MythTV (December 2008 Hardware Edition)

December 11

Why MythTV 0.22 Will Rock You

December 10

You're Too Smart To Do It Yourself

November 16

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex is Five Kinds of Fail

August 14

My iPhone Can Time Travel

July 31

The Free Software Foundation's Misguided and Misinformed Campaign Against the iPhone 3G

July 31

Ignoring the iPhone3G in Linux

July 14

Dual Monitor Happiness in GNOME

April 27

Seamless Windows Virtualization

April 16

Breaking Up With Liferea

March 22

Loads of WiFi Networks in Network Manager

February 19

Problems with the M3 DS Rumble Ram Pack

February 15

Time Synchronization with VMWare

February 15

Political Telemarketers or Scammers?

February 7

Who owns Open Source?

February 5

Disappointed in Google

January 30

Google Street View Stops for a Bite

January 9

The Requisite "About Me" Page

January 5

24 Hour Blog Challenge Update

January 3

The 24 Hour Blog Challenge

January 3

Goodbye OpenBSD

December 10

Open Source Screencasting part 2

December 6

Open Source Screencasting with VNC in GNOME

November 28

Drawing Names For Christmas with Python

October 22

Things They Don't Teach You In Tip-Of-The-Day: Environment Variables in GNOME

October 20

Slides from WPLUG MythTV Talk

October 9

DPKG eats your bandwidth and rots your hard drive -- a plea for incremental packages

September 27

Grandr Public Git Repository now Open

September 25

What you should love about Ubuntu Gutsy

September 5

Fixing Letterboxed and Pillarboxed Transcoding in MythTV

July 27

Yearly Home Page Update

July 15

I'm Working at IBM Research

July 14

What Do I Care? I Torrent!

May 23

PennAve 0.4 Released Today

May 9

Keep Pressuring Mike Doyle and PA Legislators on HR 2060

April 27

Support the Internet Radio Equality Act

March 20

Monitoring your system with SensorGraph

March 12

Sanitization and Focus of Weblogs

March 11

Comments are Now Open

March 10

Updated Style

February 4

Calling Artists: PennAve Logo Request

February 3

PennAve 0.4 Is Coming Soon

January 19

Migrating from Evolution to Thunderbird

December 14

I'm on the Make Blog!

December 8

How to Make a Wii Component/Composite Combo Cable

November 27

One Wiik Wiith a Wii

November 17

Presenting slAntiIdle

August 19

Compiling a custom kernel can save you more than $60 a year!

August 11

PennAve 0.3 Is Out

August 8

Measuring Power Consumption in MythTV

August 7

“free” isn't Free enough

July 30

Tracks Behind Apache With Non-Proxied Static Content

July 29

Tracks behind an Apache 2 Proxy on OpenBSD

July 27

Yearly Home Page Update

July 13

PennAve is Up!

July 7

Moving MCatalog Back to GNOME

June 13

Comments about the Election

May 21

I'm now virtualized

May 18

Doing Time in Allegheny County

May 9

I Guess I'm the MCatalog Maintainer

April 27

MCatalog Trac Available

April 20

I Branched MCatalog

April 16

Pittsburgh from the Duquesne Incline

April 7

SunFire T2000 Setup

April 3

T2000 Has Arrived

March 27

CNN Annoyance Remover

March 20

Fives about Ubuntu Dapper

March 15

Emacs in Full-Screen Mode

March 7

Sad Day For Baseball...Good Day For Baseball

March 6

Bye Kirby

March 3

A Phone Call From Sun

February 25

Sun Fire T2000 - Try Before You Buy

February 24

Serious Xgl Eyecandy

January 18

Google Adsense XSLT Trickery

January 14

Useless Error Messages in Nautilus

January 13

Faster Transcoding on AMD Athlon 64's

January 8

New Year's 2006 - Information Overload

January 4

New Year's 2006 - No High Fructose Corn Syrup

December 7

Context Switches on Ubuntu

November 22

Welcome to the Police State

November 20

Electromagnetic Lovin

November 17

MythTV, Ubuntu, Athlon64, WinTVPVR, Comcast Digital Cable, and a pcHDTV HD-3000 in a pear tree!

November 15

DStat for Fun and Profit

November 10

Motorola DCT 6200 Firewire Workaround

November 9

DVB and Digital Static

November 7

My MythTV Box Blew Up

October 18

Presentation on the Broadcast Flag Now Available

October 17

Slides for October 15, 2005 WPLUG Talk

October 12

Hawk Tour Gets Some Press

October 11

SQLObject Fun

October 8

Update on Doyle and the Broadcast Flag

October 3

How much does it cost to destroy fair use?

October 3

Buy Your Congressman for Only $7,631

September 28

Comcast Says Screw You!

September 27

LVM with MythTV on Ubuntu

September 24

Comments Added

September 23

More MythTV Fun

September 22

Hurricane Rita and Google Earth

September 18

Adventures with Asterisk

September 15

Gizmo - It's like Skype, but without the suck

September 13

Priblog - Round 3

September 11

RandomWipe

September 7

Fun With Spyware

August 26

My Parents' TV Runs Linux

August 26

Mock Trial Imitates Life

August 14

Adventures in Pennsyltucky

August 5

EFF and Chinese Hats Followup

August 5

Where is my EFF Hat Made?

August 3

Random bits of Code Hacking

August 2

LazyWeb: Ogg->AAC converter

July 27

Yearly Home Page Update

July 26

Operation Clean Sweep

July 19

Travel to OSS 2005 and Initial Impressions of Italy

July 8

AutoPilot Again

July 6

Today's New Google Toy

June 21

Attack of the Broadcast Flag!

June 10

Santorum's Sellout to AccuWeather

June 7

iPod Class Action

June 3

MythTV Talk Slides Online

May 31

MythTV Talk @ WPLUG - Saturday June 4th, 10am - 2pm

May 30

Earthlink Custom WRT54G Firmware

May 16

Scissors is on Autopilot

May 11

100-0

May 4

MythTV Wiki

May 2

Me in South Park

April 28

Widescreen MythTV Hotness

April 25

20 pcHDTV Cards on The Shelf...

April 19

Any More pcHDTV Card Takers?

April 16

Goodbye Quicken

April 15

The Great WPLUG pcHDTV Buy Part 2

March 31

Moving Servers

March 28

The Great WPLUG pcHDTV 3000 Buy

March 26

I Broke Technorati

March 24

Hello Planet WPLUG

March 24

Statement on PyMusique

March 23

Holy X Windows Eye Candy Batman!

March 23

Jesus makes an appearance in Unreal Tournament

March 22

Preliminary Technorati Tags Support

March 15

Oooh, a Shiny New RSS Feed

March 14

Butler for Firefox

March 12

More Interesting RSS Problems

March 12

My RSS Feed Is Sick

March 7

TV Out Joy!

March 7

Loki Games Under Ubuntu : Alpha Centauri

March 6

Curling

March 5

Ubuntu NFS Woes Ate My Forrest Gump

March 3

Myth 0.17 Fun

February 26

Why I like Mark Cuban

February 25

Passed Ph.D. Qualifier

February 24

IP Response to "google helps burglers [sic]"

February 22

Bigger Myth Hard Disk

February 17

Steps to Free Wireless In Linux

February 13

More on MythTorrent

February 10

CIT Logo In SVG

February 9

CASOS Logo In SVG

February 7

The Bean

January 27

Scary Public Health Stuff

December 14

Figuring out Bloglines Subscribers

December 13

Stopping Bandwidth Thieves

December 10

Really Banning Link Spammers

December 8

More on Banning Link Spammers

December 7

Banning Link Spammers

December 6

Caching RSS Feeds With PyBlosxom

December 1

Python and DBus

November 29

Our First Christmas Tree

November 26

PyWifiApplet

November 19

Pennsylvania House Bill 30

November 18

Network Construction at CSCW

November 17

Two Cool New Entries from the Remix Culture

November 13

Fight the TSA and Secure Flight

November 12

MPAA Intimidation

November 4

Tyler is Writing a Novel

October 29

del.icio.us and nutr.itio.us

October 29

What does CASOS do?

October 28

Social Software

October 27

Compressing HTTP Requests

October 26

Weblog is now Gzip Encoded

October 25

Saving RSS Bandwidth

October 24

Escaping Unicode Hell

October 24

Help me out of unicode hell

October 18

xmlsnipe now on SourceForge

October 18

My Brother's Work

October 18

Time to give Fedora the boot?

October 17

xmlsnipe

October 15

Disney Sucks

October 14

More Reason To Switch

October 14

Trogdor Visits Lawrenceville

October 13

Tomboy

October 12

Fellowship 9/11

October 11

Gnome VFS Mount

October 5

The return of Priblog

October 4

Mono.ReadLine now on SourceForge and Freshmeat

September 29

Mono.Readline

September 22

GCC Crashes My Computer

September 22

Cat Stevens is Gonna Kill us All!

September 20

Ubuntu Redux

September 18

Ubuntu, Gentoo, and MythTV, oh My!

September 15

A FOAFing we will go

September 14

Sign My Key Please!

September 13

MythTV 0.16 Upgrade

September 13

Trying out Skype

September 12

Farewell to You Minivan

September 6

It's Comin' Right For Us!

September 1

September 11th as a Political Device

August 28

AnsiColoredConsoleAppender

August 27

Log4Net Fun

August 25

OSSim now uses Autoconf and friends

August 18

Using Mozilla in Python Programs

August 17

Luddition

August 16

Gilmore Vs Ashcroft

August 11

My Doctor is a Snitch

August 4

The Prescaler Has Landed

August 3

Letter to John Kerry

July 1

Almost on Autopilot

July 1

This Weblog is on Autopilot

June 27

RSSGovernment

June 25

Letter to Arlen Specter

June 24

Python Development with Eclipse and Ant

June 23

The Government is Compiling Secret Databases

June 22

INDUCE/IICA notes from the Senate Floor

June 21

DRM a Success, I think Not.

June 20

Draw2d in Python

June 6

mod-xslt2

June 5

MythTorrent on SourceForge

May 31

Upgraded My WRT54G Firmware With Sveasoft

May 30

Live Demo

May 30

Announcing PennAve

May 28

Cleaning up for a preliminary release

May 27

Ken Brown, Microsoft, and the Tooth Fairy

May 26

Update on Gallery Software

May 21

Writing some photo gallery software

May 4

Rot13 Bookmark for Mozilla/Firefox

May 3

Silly TOS on Webpages

April 24

Idiocy with C#

April 18

Why I Run PyBlosxom

March 3

Fixing Some Longstanding Problems

February 19

Starting Over

February 18

I accidentally broke stuff

February 13

Fixing Wine Under Fedora

February 8

Jesus Spams!

February 2

Quick patch for SHFS

January 31

An updated version of link ripper

January 29

My book chapter finally was published!

January 13

Ripping links out of OpenOffice Documents

January 11

BibTeXML Editor

January 8

I found a Mac Classic Last Night

January 7

bibTeXML

January 6

Custom Firmware for the WRT54G

January 1

Nifty Programs

December 28

PriDB Status Update

December 27

PriDB Query Language Intro

December 23

Coming Soon...

December 11

More updates to the page

December 9

GNU Source Hightlight Patch

December 9

Broken File Times with PyBlosxom? No Problem!

December 5

Python Module for Graphviz Interaction

December 5

NIST Holding Workship on eVoting

December 4

Not Work Safe URL Plugin

December 3

Tinyurl and LastURLs for PimpBot

December 2

Introduction to PimpBot

December 2

Fixing pyPgSQL under Fedora

November 28

Blocking Hot Linking with mod_rewrite

November 23

A Primer on Why eVoting eSucks

November 22

A Rant on Transformiix

November 22

Java with GTK Look and Feel

November 21

EditCSS for Firebird

November 19

RFID Privacy Workshop - Session 1 (Prelim)

November 19

RFID Privacy Workshop - Morning (Prelim)

November 19

Back from Boston

November 14

RFID Privacy Conference

November 11

Curse you Dosbox!

November 9

Spam-B-Gone with CRM114

November 8

Connecting to CMU's VPN in Linux

November 8

First Fedora Impressions

November 5

Bittorrent On A Slow DSL Line

November 1

XSLTRenderer Now Uses libxslt

October 31

Full Month Names in pyBlosxom

October 31

XMLCategories pyBlosxom Plugin

October 31

Hiding Pyblosxom with Mod_rewrite

October 31

Enabling DRI on a Thinkpad A31

October 31

Initial thoughts on a new Apache module

October 29

XSLTRenderer Plugin

October 28

XMLCalendar Plugin Update

October 27

XMLCalendar pyBlosxom Plugin

October 26

Flavours based on Browser Version

October 26

First pyblosxom Entry

June 25

Stop emailing me about yahoo

June 17

Smart Mobs

June 12

Goodbye pridkett [pridkett@dreams.wagstrom.org]

June 4

Bruce Sterling Interview

June 3

WinTV PVR 250 Under Linux

May 27

A hefty dose of slashdotting...

May 27

slashdot effect data analysis techniques

May 23

LPD for fun and MP3 playing

May 23

IPv6 Applications

May 22

OpenBSD and IPv6 Mini How-To

May 21

OpenBSD and IPv6

May 20

Migration Successful?

May 15

SCO who?

May 12

Migration

May 9

I think this is meant to be spam

May 8

Information Overload

April 29

I apparently commit a Class A misdemeanor on a daily basis

April 25

Peekabooty-NG

April 22

Digital Camera Suggestions

April 14

Grad School Decision

March 31

Spirited Away

March 27

My 2 Cents on the War

March 7

I Have No Business Relationship With Microsoft

March 6

What is Honesty?

February 27

Break out your pens...

February 19

No Church? No Problem!

February 13

Security Fun

February 12

More on the FreeNet

February 12

Freenet

February 11

Something Fishy is Happening Here

February 10

2 For 2

February 5

KDE 3.1 on Sparc64 Gentoo

February 4

Seti@Home Fun

February 3

Miscellaneous Updates

January 31

Snow on that thar radio tranceiver

January 30

WCF12 Zaurus Woes

January 29

Gentoo on Sparc

January 21

Watch that keyboard...

January 20

PHP and Movable Type and MySQL Play Nice

January 20

MySQL Happiness?

January 19

Gotta love the RIAA

November 24

Forging user agents with Galeon

November 22

Mozilla Follow-Up

November 22

IIT Students, Let 'Em Know You Use Mozilla

November 19

OpenSSH Escape Sequences

November 13

Kapor's New Deal

November 8

Yay for the music industry!

November 6

Stopping Spam With Postfix

November 5

XServer in an applet

October 13

Free Windows Compiler Goodness

October 2

Poison for Legos

October 2

Filthy Flicks

October 1

More digital rights goodness

September 28

More on Edlred v Ashcroft

September 25

Presentation sans Powerpoint?

September 20

My GRExperience

September 19

Lawrence Lessig and the future of the Commons

September 14

Dictionaraoke.org

September 14

Homework Distraction

July 16

Still Sick

July 7

Training Hedgehogs

June 25

Conversion