A sudden change in biochemistry that results in the recognition of the perfect moment is magical.

I desperately wanted to blog tonight about my frustration with the farce that is the media and politics in America today... but PBS saved me the trouble.

I love my new iPhone... I really do... but... I do have a couple complaints more...

Would God care about some of the things we are often told He/She cares about? more...

I just got DSL service via Verizon in NYC.  The DSL modem they sent me, Westell Proline 6100, acts as a gateway to the internet as well as a router (performing tasks like firewall, DHCP, port forwarding, etc…).  A little experimenting revealed that it doesn’t perform most of its routing tasks well, and some things, [...]

For almost a year now I’ve been working on re-ripping all my CDs to lossless audio files (FLAC) and simultaneously creating high quality VBR mp3s.  For my ripping I’ve used what I believe are the best 3 rippers available; X Lossless Decoder (OSX), Rubyripper (Linux/Ubuntu), and Exact Audio Copy (Windows). Problem That task done, the [...]

Problem: I recently (like yesterday) wanted to convert some YouTube videos to audio tracks that I could listen to on my iPod.  A quick google search gives tons of possible solutions, some like vixy.net take a URL and convert it in the cloud and give you a link for download.  This would work fine if [...]

I have a bash script that calls a java application. Originally this script and java app were only run on a linux machine. Then for a couple good reasons I needed to run it in windows under cygwin. I already had java installed under windows, so I needed to get the bash script running under [...]