Dave's Blog

I’ve always been fairly paranoid about my data storage,  so I don’t know why I felt so inclined to trust Maxtor’s Central Axis Data Server with all my files.   Maybe it was because I was impressed with the notion that that tiny cute little box held a Terabyte of storage and a Linux server, [...]

Laundry is not my favorite passtime by any means, but trying to match pairs of Tblack mens’ socks makes me suspect there is some sort of conspiracy afoot!

“Gives us the nice bright colors,  Gives us the greens of summers, Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day.” -Paul Simon from the song Kodachrome
Unfortunately, when I started scanning my Dad’s Kodachrome slides from our trip to California in 1967,  I discovered Kodachrome’s dirty little secret.  At first I thought the slides had [...]

Recently while catching up on the MoonViews LOIRP (mentioned previously here I noticed that project head Dennis Wingo had given a presentation to the Mountain View Hacker Dojo.
If you’ve not heard of a Dojo before, it is a Japanese word meaning literally “Place of the Way”.  The term is usually associated with places where young people [...]