https://the.nullog.net/nullog/backlog/Recent content in Backlog on Nullog.netHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://the.nullog.net/2018/04/hyundai-ioniq/Fri, 27 Apr 2018 20:40:29 +0000https://the.nullog.net/2018/04/hyundai-ioniq/So I bought a new car; the interest started about two years ago but I kept finding reasons to hold off. When I first start looking the Prius Eco 2 was the top of my list, I liked it but I just didn’t like it enough and car shopping on the back burner. In mid-to-late fall 2017 I started think I really should bring in my Prius for a tune up and look into getting a few lagging issues fixed.https://the.nullog.net/2018/04/2018-dopey/Thu, 05 Apr 2018 18:52:45 +0000https://the.nullog.net/2018/04/2018-dopey/The week was cold, the week was also a week of forgetting and loosing items. The cold, well check out the Dark Sky time machine data Jan 4th, Jan 5th, Jan 6th, Jan 7th. What did I loose? I lost my one good working AirPod on Flight of passage. I also lost, or misplaced, my MagicBand when packing my luggage the night before my flight home. I eventually did find the MagicBand a few days later shoved in the toe of my running shoes.https://the.nullog.net/2017/10/a-2017-race/Sat, 07 Oct 2017 11:13:34 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2017/10/a-2017-race/I ran a race in 2017. I didn’t think I would and I wait to nearly the last moment to register. I have four weeks of vacation to use or lose over the course of year. I try to spread them out over the year. Looking a head back in early January I had no plans of running any races this year. I did however plan my vacation time around local events that I could run if I so choose to.https://the.nullog.net/2017/09/running-behind/Mon, 25 Sep 2017 19:38:57 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2017/09/running-behind/Talk about a late posting. I had this done for months just waiting to publish. I slacked off all year and failed to up-date my 2015 year in running. In late 2014 to early 2015 I decided I wanted to run the Dopey Challenge along with the inaugural Dark Side Half Marathon at Disney World. I tried to make my 2015 supportive of these goals. I registered to run my home town half marathon early in the year along with the fall full marathon in Grand Rapids.https://the.nullog.net/2016/07/july-bits/Sun, 31 Jul 2016 11:58:32 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2016/07/july-bits/ Fast The Marriage That Ledd to the Russian Track Team’s Olympic Ban Original Apollo 11 guidance computer (AGC) source code The Delicious Origins of the Domesticated Blueberry The H-Boms in Turkeyhttps://the.nullog.net/2016/06/june-bits/Thu, 30 Jun 2016 11:44:06 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2016/06/june-bits/ Restoring the Legendary 1970s GUI Computer The Explain xkcd wiki Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They are From Nigeria?https://the.nullog.net/2016/05/may-bits/Tue, 31 May 2016 12:15:31 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2016/05/may-bits/ The Story Behind The World’s Emptiest International Airport One Month on the World’s Longest Train Ride for $1,000 Russian Insider Says State-Run Doping Fueled Olympic Gold How Did People in the Colonial Period Stay Informed?https://the.nullog.net/2016/04/april-bits/Sat, 30 Apr 2016 20:17:32 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2016/04/april-bits/ Apricity OS – maybe for my old laptop? Mathematicians mapped out every “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character The Epic Rise of John D. Rockefeller The evolution of whales Watch All The Apple TV Aerial Video Screensavers How Safe is Your Hospital?https://the.nullog.net/2016/03/march-bits/Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:10:30 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2016/03/march-bits/ Introducing Safari Technology Preview He Always Had a Dark Side The Strange Origins of TrueCrypt, ISIS’s Favored Encryption Toolhttps://the.nullog.net/2016/02/february-bits/Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:49:27 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2016/02/february-bits/ Lesson #1: JavaScript — The Basics ES2015, ES6, Cheatsheet Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking for lost phones? Not-so-secret atomic tests — Why the photographic film industry knew what the American public didn’t Zola Tells Allhttps://the.nullog.net/2016/01/january-bits/Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:06:48 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2016/01/january-bits/ Behind the Lens: 2015 Year in Photographs Mapping Places in America Where Prohibition Never Ended Inside the Hidden World that Handles Your Holiday Returns — Island of Misfit toys? Babel Handbookhttps://the.nullog.net/2015/12/december-bits/Thu, 31 Dec 2015 18:43:21 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2015/12/december-bits/ Where Wireless Works Best at Disney World IBM Swift Sandbox (online REPL) A Year of Runkeeper: Analysis and Visualization Math on the Run Optical heart-rate measurement’s top 5 challengeshttps://the.nullog.net/2015/11/november-bits/Mon, 30 Nov 2015 18:56:29 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2015/11/november-bits/ That Time I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil Sony says goodbye to Betamax tapes — file this under the who knew jsDelivr – A free super-fast CDN for developers and webmasters Two Brothers One Ultra Marathon and the Greatest Cheat in Running History The Cursed, Buried City That May Never See The Light of Dayhttps://the.nullog.net/2015/10/october-bits/Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:32:12 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2015/10/october-bits/ Banknotes for a Japanese Occupied Hawaii Make a call with Wi-Fi Calling — with an iPhone React — a style guide SurviveJS - Webpack and React A Comprehensive Guide to Test-First Development with Redux, React, and Immutable Trying Out ReactJS With the Marvel API You Might Not Need Gulp.jshttps://the.nullog.net/2015/09/september-bits/Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:13:32 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2015/09/september-bits/ The surprising geography of American left-handedness The Node Way — Your Guide to Building Beautiful Node.js Applications Useful gulp recipes Linux workstation security checklist How to view-source of a Chrome extensionhttps://the.nullog.net/2015/08/august-bits/Mon, 31 Aug 2015 20:12:40 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2015/08/august-bits/ Disney’s Hyperion Renderer “Gorilla” Spooks Runners During Trail Race How a Ban on Plastic Bags Can Go Wrong Nike promotes — and undermines — U.S. track When running for exercise was for weirdos — history of running React Static Site Corn Wars The Lyubov Orlovahttps://the.nullog.net/2015/07/july-bits/Fri, 31 Jul 2015 19:33:51 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2015/07/july-bits/ Five Things We Still Don’t Know About Water Mount St. Helens, still steaming, holds the world’s newest glacier The Science of ‘Inside Out’ How to Train The Three Most Important Muscles in Running What is a Polyfill?https://the.nullog.net/2015/06/june-bits/Tue, 30 Jun 2015 23:37:12 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2015/06/june-bits/ Install OS X 10.10 Yosemite in VirtualBox A re-introduction to JavaScript Traffic Jams in Javascript Highways gutted American cities. So why did they build them? Pedestrianism Should you believe the hype surrounding running-shoe tech? New Balance Fresh Foam Boracay Review Five Things We Still Don’t Know About Waterhttps://the.nullog.net/2015/05/may-bits/Sun, 31 May 2015 07:59:49 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2015/05/may-bits/ The Hobos of Instagram Install Arch Linux with full control on DigitalOcean VPS — via FreeBSD method Arch Linux on EC2 Ants show that emergency exits can work better when they’re obstructed. How many iPhones can fit in a 747? Why do buses bunch?https://the.nullog.net/2015/04/april-bits/Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:03:56 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2015/04/april-bits/Disney Shorts Inside Disney’s radical plan to modernize its cherished theme parks. The perception of Apple Watch vs. MagicBand Inside the Apple Watch — Technical Teardown Weather Underground — The arrival of man-made earthquakes. I have a trip to Disney World in a few days, I registered for the Dopey Challenge in January, and I’ve been thinking about buy an Apple watch. The bits above highly reflect these thoughts.https://the.nullog.net/2015/04/lets-move-festival-of-races/Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:13:13 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2015/04/lets-move-festival-of-races/Last year was the first year I ran this event. Mentally I felt down for most of the race, physically I felt a bit off; I ran my fast official half marathon it was also the last race I ran. This year, I was in a good place mentally but a tad unsure physically. When I signed up I wanted to better last years time, my goal time was 2:10.https://the.nullog.net/2015/04/surge-cdn/Mon, 06 Apr 2015 17:52:17 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2015/04/surge-cdn/I’ve enjoyed rolling my own Rack server on Heroku. Yet, it always seemed to be a functional hack. Then I finally posed a seemly simple question. Why am I deploying to Heroku, what are the benefits? The reason I initial reason I was deplying to heroku for Jekyll plug-ins, beeing different, and the learning process. The only tangitable benefits hosting with Heroku offers me… crickets…wait I have the ability to control site routing via ModRewrite.https://the.nullog.net/2015/03/march-bits/Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:42:33 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2015/03/march-bits/ Disney Princess Half Marathon Presented Finish Line — Video The ‘Second Moon’ You Didn’t Know Earth Had John Madden Hockey — Making of NHL ’94https://the.nullog.net/2015/03/raspberry/Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:49:32 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2015/03/raspberry/I’ve been enjoying my new toy over vacation thus far, and a vacation[winter, 2015] posting is in the works. What is this toy? This toy will essentially ensure my old MacBooks will get the boot as I have purchased a Raspberry Pi 2, running Arch Linux ARM. I really don’t know what I’m going to do with the Pi yet… a fileserver or media center are the top contenders. I do have few quibbles regarding the current state of Linux on the Raspberry Pi.https://the.nullog.net/2015/02/february-bits/Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:10:01 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2015/02/february-bits/ Flipboard — finally on the web The Keurig 2.0 DRM Freedom Clip How metro Detroit transit went from best to worst What’s Up With That: Why Do Cats Love Boxes So Much? Measuring feline capacitance Stronglifts 5×5 — the site feels a tad slimy Whiteout Mail Open Paymentshttps://the.nullog.net/2015/01/january-bits/Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:53:13 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2015/01/january-bits/ The Running Experience Blog — a nice series of video training tips How to Update OpenSSH on Mac OS X Secure Secure Shell — Securing the Secure Shell µBlock — An efficient blocker add-on 24⁄7 wearable heart rate monitor — an interesting idea Essential JavaScript Linkshttps://the.nullog.net/2015/01/running-ahead-in-2015/Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:56:14 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2015/01/running-ahead-in-2015/Last year I had many plans 2014, running wise. After the Dopey Challenge I didn’t do much and only finished one other event. For that event, Let’s Move Festival of Races, I didn’t do any training. I also entered Kona Running Company’s Kona Run, a massive fail. A few days earlier I had eye lid surgery, I miss-calculated the drive time and missed the start of the race partly due to to the eye lid surgery.https://the.nullog.net/2014/12/december-bits/Wed, 31 Dec 2014 20:46:46 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2014/12/december-bits/ Bing Homepage Gallery WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue — clever Yosemite fix Firefox for iOS — they went with git? FastMail Advent 2014 Peanut Butter Oatmeal Muffins Sports Gels Can Improve Marathon Times Let’s Encrypt Grand Rapids Marathon — I’m registered for 2015https://the.nullog.net/2014/12/server-underpinnings/Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:29:37 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2014/12/server-underpinnings/The choice to move to Heroku was made just under two and a half years ago; since that time Unicorn has been the primary server of choice, with a short flirtation with Puma. Lets be honest this site gets very little traffic before removing my visit or the search bots. Yet, the desire to have quick response times, load times, able to serve thousands of request per second, and not be a resource hog has had always been my mission.https://the.nullog.net/2014/11/november-bits/Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:35:22 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2014/11/november-bits/Energy Gel Comparisons A Comprehensive Review of Recovery Products GOrun 4 Reviews 1 Run Blogger Believer in the Run Happy Feet jamiepang.com Coach Caleb Giraffes may be headed for extinction I don’t think I’ve hidden the fact I’ve turned into a huge fan of the Skechers GOrun lineup. While I haven’t seen nor tried the GOrun 4’s I must admit I am skeptical at what I’ve initially seen trickle out prior to the NYC Marathon.https://the.nullog.net/2014/10/october-bits/Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:46:52 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2014/10/october-bits/ Handy Tools & Apps Page — running/biking/fitness related Are Online Race Registration Companies Scamming Us?https://the.nullog.net/2014/09/september-bits/Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:25:24 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2014/09/september-bits/USATF ‘Age Grading’ What Coke Contains The month started full of anticipation and optimism; vacation was right around the corner. As the month progressed the optimism mood slowly turn to melancholy then grim. The low lights of the month included my TV dying, bed riden with back pain for part of my vacation and more agonizing the death of a long friendship. As a result I haven’t given this site much attention.https://the.nullog.net/2014/08/august-bits/Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:24:47 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2014/08/august-bits/ The best argument yet for net neutrality comes from Major League Baseball “Theater” vs. “Theatre”: The Great New York Times Language Swap Running 5 Minutes a Day Has Long-Lasting Benefits 8 unexpected reasons why you should run The Marathon MacBook Decals — stickers BPA-Free Plastic Containers May Be Just as Hazardous Strength Runninghttps://the.nullog.net/2014/07/july-bits/Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:50:07 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2014/07/july-bits/ Swift Blog Run Detroit — check out the group runs awsome-ruby 60 Useful Things to Make Building Things with Heroku Better 3 Ways to Create Classes in Ruby Detroit Then & Now — 313 years. The beauty of zipper merging Hotel WiFi Speed Test — an interesting travel planning ‘tool’ Car Hackers Handbook Half Marathon World — nice listing of medalshttps://the.nullog.net/2014/07/middleman/Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2014/07/middleman/I don’t want to go dwell to much on the evolution of my online presence. For nearly two years this site has been built upon the awesomeness that is Jekyll. Over the two years I’ve learned a lot, I’ve also made may mistakes. I do feel in many ways Jekyll with GitHub is nearly a perfect platform for most users. Yet I wanted more and moved the hosting to Heroku. I had the inclination I still wanted more back in November when I started to ‘refactor’ the site design.https://the.nullog.net/2014/06/june-bits/Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2014/06/june-bits/ D-day landings scenes in 1944 and now The CIA on Twitter Running OS X Marericks under QEMU with KVM Pencil Vs Camera! Hedgehogs Run A Marathon Every Night Animals in the wild found to use running wheel — yet I hate treadmills Pablo Escobar’s hippos Git from the Bottom Uphttps://the.nullog.net/2014/05/may-bits/Sat, 31 May 2014 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2014/05/may-bits/ Disneyland’s original prospectus Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World A Hacker’s Guide to Git The Neo Ruby Koans How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name The Crazy Genius Behind Solar Roadways Google Video Quality Reporthttps://the.nullog.net/2014/05/macbook-pro/Mon, 19 May 2014 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2014/05/macbook-pro/While my trusty MacBook (4,2) has been my workhorse for sometime, and while it do undergo some life saving surgery last year it really is starting to show its age. I hoped my Mac Mini would help push back the need yet another year. But it hasn’t and while the idea of building my own system seems alluring I know I will be left wanting a portable system. I know I should wait to WWDC until I replace the system but…https://the.nullog.net/2014/04/running-ahead-in-2014/Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2014/04/running-ahead-in-2014/One 1⁄3 of the year is gone. While the year started bang, since then I haven’t been running much. My desire to road has been dampened by the ‘harsh’ 2013-14 winter weather. Yet, I’m still looking ahead at what my 2014 running goals might consist off. For the last two years I’ve been consumed with the Goofy and Dopey challenges. I love the runDisney events, I love getting away to warmer weather… but I need a slight break from the runDisney events.https://the.nullog.net/2014/03/nullog/Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2014/03/nullog/Introducing nullog.net While I do like the Standard Error moniker I can’t say for sure what prompted the change. I found the stderr.me name abit convoluted and silly. When the site came to be I also felt the premiss was a bit flawed. But did that unease drive the change? Undoubtedly that did factor into my desire change, yet it wasn’t the only factor.https://the.nullog.net/2014/03/simple/Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2014/03/simple/Online shopping isn’t anything new to me, after all I was one of the first people to buy and HD TV online way back when… then when had my last eye check up and prescription I went to Warby Parker. The experience was rather quick and simple. Now when I’m looking to buy a new bed I’m following suit. However, I never thought about buying the little daily things online. I started looking into changing that by buying my shaving needs online from Harrys.https://the.nullog.net/2014/03/the-full-sass-move/Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2014/03/the-full-sass-move/When I chose to think about moving away from Bootstrap I need to find few plumbing/framework replacements. I like Bourbon along with Neat. I always wanted some ‘help’ on the typeset side of things, and typeplate looks to be a nice choice, as did Bitters. I used all four. Then I realized, just as I relied on Bootstrap, I was relying on these foundations. I decided I need to move away from the the support these frameworks provide in order to do my own thing.https://the.nullog.net/2014/02/interesting-reads/Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2014/02/interesting-reads/I admit it, I really don’t feel that productive today so… some oddly interesting “news” stories. There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written some whales where born before the Civil War, before Abraham Lincoln became President of the United States, some where born when Lincoln was 5 years old. Italian and French jets escorted hijacked plane because Swiss AF was outside working hours moral of the story “If you plan to attack Switzerland, opt for non-working hours.https://the.nullog.net/2014/01/openshift/Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2014/01/openshift/At the end of last year I purchased a new domain name and plan on migrating the site over to domain… along with completing my design changed goals. Which caused me to yet again I’m looking at other ways to host my little playground. This time around I’m looking at OpenShift, which might be an ideal long term solution. However it does have a few catches one of which is actually a bonus, OpenShift does seem to be more powerful than most of the other “Service Platforms”… however when running something litle this playground that power can become an obstacle.https://the.nullog.net/2014/01/the-dopey-weekend/Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2014/01/the-dopey-weekend/The trip of course didn’t start as planned. The schedule flight out of DTW to MCO was canceled the previous morning due to weather conditions. I quickly called the airline and the earliest flight I could get to MCO was scheduled to land at 755pm; the expo was scheduled to close at 8pm. The initial question of how do I get to Disney was replaced with how do make it to Disney in time to pick up my bib.https://the.nullog.net/2014/01/twenty-fourteen/Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2014/01/twenty-fourteen/I feel as if I should start the year off with a posting, but I have no New Years resolutions nor do I have any lofty goals. So I am stuck what shall I write. The first challenge of the year will be the Doopy Challenge and I hope I find time to register for a few more events over the year. I hope to do a local event or two and I might consider doing RnR Chi again.https://the.nullog.net/2013/12/5-hours/Fri, 27 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2013/12/5-hours/I’ve been putting of creating a plug-in that would take my images from flickr and embed them on pages here… was able to make a local working plug in fairly quicky. However, everytime I tried to push the site to heroku everything would fail with an error, Liquid Exception: No API key or secret defined! Well the solution was simple and I kept glossing over it heroku labs:enable user-env-compile Yes, thats right.https://the.nullog.net/2013/12/refactor-the-stall/Sat, 07 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2013/12/refactor-the-stall/So I quickly learned CloudFlare isn’t for me as it add to much overhead for such a minimal ROI. Around the same time I noticed my Bootsrap base was no longer current, I stumbled upon jekyll-assets and bootstrap-sass which started to get me thinking why not use the two and customize it for my needs and serve it all up as one file. It works faily well, which then lead me to wonder if I should keep using Bootstrap or find something a bit lighter.https://the.nullog.net/2013/11/starting-the-refactor/Fri, 29 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2013/11/starting-the-refactor/As I mentied before, I think the time has come to refactor the sites stack. First and foremost I wanted to be enable to deploy a test version of the site locally, running just like it would in the server production environment. I don’t know why but this didn’t work well with my old method. I think it might had to do with using Rack:Jekyll, but I can’t be sure.https://the.nullog.net/2013/11/free-is-good/Sun, 24 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2013/11/free-is-good/I was able to to bring my Digital Ocean ‘cloud’ up without to much trouble. I was able to bring up an ngix server, server up encrypted content all while keeping the all three version of the site in sync with the git repo. The hardest part was the how, what is the best way to keep the Digital Ocean version of the site up-to-date with the git repo. After some searching I stumbled across jekyll-hook, by the same creators of Prose.https://the.nullog.net/2013/11/setting-sail/Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2013/11/setting-sail/When I was spec-ing out a way to develop a site and return to the web my requirements where fairly simple. I wanted to avoid running or maintaining any of infrastructure. I first started using tumblr, moved to jekyll with github hosting, then to heroku. They are all fine options. I am however am finding, what I always knew, I enjoy the technical side far more than content creation. I think I’m getting close to setting sail on my time at heroku and take my toys to a bigger Digital Ocean.https://the.nullog.net/2013/11/quantitative-self/Sun, 17 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2013/11/quantitative-self/My final vacation for the year is just around the corner, which of course I’m looking forward to. I have spent the last week thinking of different projects I want to tackle over the week. I of course want to fin down some of the details to my January vacation plans… the quantitative self side of things. I played my order for the Magellan Echo, which I plan on using all four days of the Dopey Challenge.https://the.nullog.net/2013/11/smart-watches/Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2013/11/smart-watches/I was a huge watch person in the later years of high school and most of my college life. Then sometime in my senior year I stop wearing a watch. It wasn’t until early this year I start wearing a watch on a semi-regular basis. But first let me back track, once I decided I was going to make an attempt at the Goofy Challenge in `13 I wanted to find a way to track my effort in a quantitative way.https://the.nullog.net/2013/11/the-10/Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2013/11/the-10/I do have a problem with the media chart, I’m fairly certain General Electric doesn’t own Comcast.. and I’m just a certain, positive, that Comcast owns the NBC properties. However the graphs make your think about about consolidation.https://the.nullog.net/2013/10/is-the-economist-left-or-right-wing/Tue, 29 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/10/is-the-economist-left-or-right-wing/I admit I don’t read the Economist, the blog post is well worth the read.https://the.nullog.net/2013/09/wake-up-call/Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/09/wake-up-call/Now that is some wake up call…https://the.nullog.net/2013/09/digital-history/Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/09/digital-history/Each year, month, week and day we are moving awway from the classic personal computer paradigm and closer to some hybrid sci-fi paradigm geeks just lusted over as adolescents. With the rise of smart phones and cloud computing we will soon find ourselves at a cross road wondering what to do with all of our data. Now I could go on and on about data portablity. I think a bigger issue exist, the storge of our data.https://the.nullog.net/2013/09/quora/Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/09/quora/Something I found a few weeks ago… but never posted ?share=1https://the.nullog.net/2013/09/even-more-knee-pain/Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/09/even-more-knee-pain/Just something I found that offers up more suggestions/excercies to help releive knee pain.https://the.nullog.net/2013/09/a-few-links/Sun, 01 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/09/a-few-links/I spy… Little Progress at North Korean Ski Resort Automatic sleep and wellness tracker. Turn your bed into a smart bedhttps://the.nullog.net/2013/08/late-summer-report/Sat, 31 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/08/late-summer-report/This summer I’ve accomplished a few task, and a few where placed on the back burner. After completing the summer vacation project, and then sitting on it, I finally did install Arch on my main laptop. I learned a good deal along the way and I am fairly happy with the end results. I may have a more indept install ‘report’ detailing some of my choices. I may push that off until I finish my next Arch install project, my Mac Mini with a functional OS X VM environment.https://the.nullog.net/2013/08/wikiquote/Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/08/wikiquote/ Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. Leonardo Da Vincihttps://the.nullog.net/2013/08/pixar-theory/Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/08/pixar-theory/Multiple worlds, one universe.https://the.nullog.net/2013/08/shorts/Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/08/shorts/For a while now I’ve been trying to find a good method to tie my running shorts. I want to tie them so they are snug allowing me to mule around my Simple Hydration water bottle yet easy enough to untie. I found the useful posting on the LiveStrong website on how to tie basketball shorts, I figured the concept is similar enough to crossover. Also, typically I’m not a fan of sites like eHow but this time they actually have something useful, “How to Loop a String Through Gym Shorts”.https://the.nullog.net/2013/07/rebuilding-the-run/Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/07/rebuilding-the-run/Late last year, a few weeks before my third Wine & Dine Half Marathon I suffered an injury to my knee. While I rested and worked out at the gym I had hopes I could not just salvage upcoming Wine & Dine but become healthy enough to run the Goofy in January. Well I was able to make it for the Wine & Dine, yet I managed to re-aggravated the injury around the 3-mile marker.https://the.nullog.net/2013/07/rss-management-again/Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/07/rss-management-again/A month ago I thought I found my RSS reader solution in CommaFeed. However, after using it for a few days I found it just wasn’t what I needed. In fact I found it to be painfully slow. So I looked for alternative solutions and found Stringer. It is by far one of the best solutions I found. Yet it too had a problem, sometimes I’m not in the mood to read tech news, and wish to indulge in something else… and Stringer lacks folders.https://the.nullog.net/2013/07/stop-rounding-your-back-during-squats/Sat, 13 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/07/stop-rounding-your-back-during-squats/I think a good deal of my current running related knee pain is related to weak strenght in my hip flexors along with hip flexibility and mobility.https://the.nullog.net/2013/06/13-things-you-didnt-know-about-running-shoes/Sun, 23 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/06/13-things-you-didnt-know-about-running-shoes/For some reason I found this abnormally interesting.https://the.nullog.net/2013/06/falsity-of-sure-things/Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/06/falsity-of-sure-things/My vacation[summer, 2013] ended and I continue to evaluate and tinker with plans to create a standardized deployment across my laptops; I am finding what I once thought was a sure thing isn’t. I currently run OpenBox on my Arch install, my desire to keep minimal system along how much I enjoy many aspects of Crunch Bang I thought OpenBox would be the clear winner. Yet Cinnamon is starting to emerge as a strong contender, I am starting to grow fond of the environment.https://the.nullog.net/2013/06/daily-comfort/Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/06/daily-comfort/This may sound like a horror story at first but I assure you it isn’t. I wanted to find a lightweight shoe comfortable to wear daily, with a low toe to heal drop. However this shoe wasn’t intended to be used for daily use but as a gym workout shoe. Over the winter I’ve been eyeing up Sketchers GOrun 1 line from a distance. Just a few weeks ago I stopped by my local Skechers Outlet, and picked up a new pair of shoes.https://the.nullog.net/2013/06/rss-ing-again/Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/06/rss-ing-again/For the last month and a half now I’ve been straying away from twitter. I don’t have any good reason, when I really started to use twitter it replaced my use of RSS feeds. Now, as my use of twitter is dwindling my RSS use is picking back up again. Early in the year Google axed Reader, which is the client of choice by many. I used it back in the day… and I’ve now found a new replacement… I have a few concerns like the ability of it web client to scale (the ability to quickly refresh feeds).https://the.nullog.net/2013/05/isight-in-arch/Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/05/isight-in-arch/According the the Arch MacBook wiki page, the MacBook’s iSight camera should just work out of the box since kernal 2.6.26. Well that maybe the case on new hardware1, older hardware2 doesn’t have the iSight camera just work. One must first do some work, like finding the drivers AppleUSBVideoSupport. The driver can be found on any Mac OS X system, however it must come Mac OS X pre-10.6, so just just google it.https://the.nullog.net/2013/05/creating-an-arch-flash-drive/Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/05/creating-an-arch-flash-drive/This week I was lucky enough to enjoy a week off from work. I am half way thru the vacation and wanted to post a stats report on my vacation[summer, 2013] project. While I do love Crunch Bang, I would like move my MacBook (4,1) to Arch. I’ve been successful install Arch on my MacBook (2,1) yet before I wipe away my ‘stable’ install I must first resolve a few issues/bugs1.https://the.nullog.net/2013/05/avahi/Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/05/avahi/I’ve had issues getting avahi (zeroconfig) to work properly on my first arch install. I was, I think, finally able to make everything work properly by doing the following. Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and make the host line look like1: hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns Finally run: # systemctl enable avahi-daemon.service Testing metric: ping -c 1 `hostname`.local avahi-resolve -n `hostname`.local getent hosts `hostname` More info on what mdns4_minimal and mdns can be found on the nss-mDNS website.https://the.nullog.net/2013/05/chromium-chrome-sync-server-address/Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/05/chromium-chrome-sync-server-address/I use hostsblock to block all the unwanted ‘annoyances’ online. It also blocks the Google Sync Servers for both Chromium & Chrome. The fix is fairly simple if you know the sync server address, just check the source code. # hostsblock-urlcheck https://clients4.google.com/ Yes I’m trying to move away from Google Services, yet I’m using Chromium with sync services.https://the.nullog.net/2013/05/pacman-errors/Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/05/pacman-errors/Just in case I run up against this again…. sudo pacman -Syy sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux sudo pacman -Scchttps://the.nullog.net/2013/04/moving-to-arch/Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/04/moving-to-arch/A few months back I installed Ubuntu; shortly after that I moved to CrunchBang. For the most part I’ve enjoyed my experiences with CruncBang. The few things I haven’t enjoyed where directly related to it foundation, Debian. However, I stuck with it and even upgraded the Macbook (4,1) replacing the HD with an SSD and doubling the RAM. I enjoyed the experience even more. Yet I keep feeling like the Debian base was holding me back.https://the.nullog.net/2013/04/registered/Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/04/registered/I’ve been going back and forth over this for the last week. I really want to do the the Wine & Dine for the 4th year in a row, I really want to tackle the Dopey Challenge. I only have the ability to do one of the weekends. I also don’t know if this how I wanted to spend a weeks vacation. In the end the bigger regret would be not doing the Dopey Challenge.https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/forecast.io/Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/forecast.io/I just love the work the guys at Dark Sky have done. They now have a great, yes great, WebApp forcast.io with a nifty API. I’ve spent a good portion of my day playing with it learning a bit about ruby and json.https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/shameful/Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/shameful/https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/spring-spruce/Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/spring-spruce/Spring is in the air and I’ve been feeling the need to give the site a bit more personality. Currently I’m working on matching a few fonts together that should help shape the look and feel. For this I choose to look at the Google Web Fonts (maybe I should look at Font Squirrel next), it seemed to provide the best way to get ensure my choices would be available to all visitors of the site.https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/heigh-ho-heigh-ho/Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/heigh-ho-heigh-ho/My 2013 goal was to complete the Goofy, and I meet my goal. I was nearly sure I would running the Goofy in 2014 as I felt I could have done better. Now Disney has announced the Dopey Challenge; 5K, 10K, Half Marathon and Marathon for a whopping 48.6 miles for 6 medals. I think I now have a new challenge. My room is booked.https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/apollo-era-rocket-engines-pulled-from-the-sea/Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/apollo-era-rocket-engines-pulled-from-the-sea/I just love the underwater photos.https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/running-2012/Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/running-2012/I started writing this post on the plane home after completing my first marathon in January. Then it sat in my draft folder, and sat some more; the time has come to finally publish. In 2012 I ran the Chicago Rock ‘n’ Roll Half along with the Walt Disney World Wine and Dine. The Chicago Rock ‘n Roll went far better than I could have expected, while the Wine & Dine went far worse than I could have imagined.https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/nopriv.py/Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/nopriv.py/I could have used a script like this a few months back when I was trying to figure out what to do with my email hosting issues.https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/an-update/Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2013/03/an-update/I must admit I haven’t said much in some time. I’ve nearly migrated my full computer usage from my Mini running OS X to my old MacBook running CrunchBang Linux, with a few modificatons. So far I’m liking the switch. Not because its free or any such ideology. This set up is must less computing intensive, and I feel like I’m living closer to the hardware. It a way I feel more conected with the technology.https://the.nullog.net/2012/11/linux-playground/Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500https://the.nullog.net/2012/11/linux-playground/I’ve been playing with Linux on two old Macbooks (4,1 and 2,1). The 4,1 system has Ubuntu while the 2,1 system is running Crunchbang. To me the stock Ubuntu install is a bit to much for me, and I much prefer the Crunchbang install. However I have EFI boot issues with the CB install. So here are a few quick links: http://blogs.gnome.org/diegoe/2012/11/16/efi-mode-boot-on-macbook31-with-debian/ http://www.kcore.org/?menumain=4&menusub=3 http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/UEFI_Firmware http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=21510 http://blog.realcomputerguy.com/2012/05/efi-stub-booting-without-bootloader.html https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=81120 http://wiki.https://the.nullog.net/2012/10/the-other-social/Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/10/the-other-social/I was never a Facebook fan. I get the general point of the service to easily stay connected to friends and family. However maybe its because I’m not an overly social person, I never understood why so many people view the internet thru Facebook, or buy so heavily into the Facebook services. As a result I was more of a Twitter users. I’ve preferred Twitter to Facebook because it had an open feeling.https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/wallpaper/Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/wallpaper/I found my new homescreen background.https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/this-cant-be-good/Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/this-cant-be-good/Part of a crash log report that caused my iPhone not to sync last night: Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000100700000 VM Regions Near 0x100700000: MALLOC_TINY 0000000100600000-0000000100700000 [ 1024K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV --> STACK GUARD 0000000100700000-0000000100701000 [ 4K] ---/rwx SM=NUL stack guard for thread 1 Stack 0000000100701000-0000000100783000 [ 520K] rw-/rwx SM=COW thread 1 Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-threadhttps://the.nullog.net/2012/09/fitbit-the-zip/Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/fitbit-the-zip/I ordered my first fitbit, the classic, on March 8th 2010, each day I wait in anticipation for production to ramp up. Finally on May 18th my fitbit shipped. Sadly my fitbit died a few month later, as I completed my first half marathon. I found out the hard way the fitbit wasn’t water resistant at all. The fitbit also didn’t seem very durable construction wise, but I didn’t exactly wear it as directed.https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/run-mate/Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/run-mate/When I first started to run I would run excessive at the gym, indoors on a treadmill. The idea of running outside, where the elements and nature could interfere with my feeble attempt at running horrified me. I knew I need help to start running, couch to 5k apps where all the rage. They where all relatively cheap and similarly priced at $2.99. I knew I would eventually outgrow the 5k apps, as I was targeting completing a half-marathon.https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/the-complete-guide-to-interval-training/Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/the-complete-guide-to-interval-training/I was listing podcast the other day where they where talking about HIIT, High Intensity Interval Training.; more specifically the Tabata and Little Methods. I wasn’t able to sleep last night and figured I would look into the Little Method more. Only to find the infographic above from the same source I linked to the other day, http://greatist.com/, they my soon have a place in my daily reading line up. Oh, and I plan on using Little Method when I visit the gym for a short 30 minute run this evening.https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/iphone5-blueprints/Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/iphone5-blueprints/Isn’t it nice Apple has posted the exact dimensions for the cases makers? I’m not buying an iPhone5 myself anytime soon, however I just found the blueprints nifty.https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/the-ultimate-runners-guide/Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/the-ultimate-runners-guide/https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/running-check-list/Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/running-check-list/https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/iphone-x/Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/iphone-x/It is that time of year when Apple is poised to release yet another version of the iPhone. I recall my first iPhone, the orginal, which I beat up fairly well. I bought it with the intent of jailbreaking it and running it of T-Mobile. I upgraded to the 3G a year later but this time I opted to sign up for an AT&T contract. When the iPhone 4 came out the 3G was slugish and I loved the ascetic look of the 4 and yes I did upgrade to the iPhone 4S, mostly for well I don’t know Bluetooth 4.https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/giving-back/Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/09/giving-back/I the course of building and deploying this site one particular site has been truly helpful, Stack Overflow. Today I was finally able to give back and answer a fairly simple question that had me perplex when I first encountered it, Jekyll on Heroku listing additional (internal?) posts I haven’t created. The probelm: Jekyll on heroku publishes mysterious pages, and they all relate to your project someway, somehow. The solution: Let’s call the directory where Jekyll is installed & running from the root /.https://the.nullog.net/2012/08/create-a-post-or-page/Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/08/create-a-post-or-page/Why is it I can never remember: rake post title="Hello World" or rake page name="about.md"https://the.nullog.net/2012/08/github-to-heroku-deplyment/Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/08/github-to-heroku-deplyment/Once again I’m taking inspiration from Jonas Forsberg and Deploy to Heroku from Github. However, I just couln’t get the thing to work. So I backtracked to the orginal project github-heroku-pusher and everything now seems to be in working order. I think I will circle back around to his method eventually, but for now, while I build out the site I’m going to follow the don’t fix what isn’t broken mantra.https://the.nullog.net/2012/08/quick-and-dirty-metrics/Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/08/quick-and-dirty-metrics/Now that I have github -> heroku publishing in place now is the time to setup even more over kill, heroku offers a few (2)5 MB Memcache Bucket. I made the following changes to config.ru if memcache_servers = ENV["MEMCACHE_SERVERS"] require 'dalli' require 'rack-cache' require 'memcachier' $cache = Dalli::Client.new use Rack::Cache, :verbose => true, :metastore => $cache, :entitystore => $cache end To test that caching is working use ab aka Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool and run ab -n 500 -c 5 [hostname]https://the.nullog.net/2012/08/mon-aug-13/Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/08/mon-aug-13/I’m using a combination of TextMate and TextWrangler to create and edit post along with Coda 2 craft the design of the site. Here is a helpful modification to the TextMate markdown bundle,https://the.nullog.net/2012/08/heroku/Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/08/heroku/After playing with jekyll on Git Hub’s pages, I realized I needed something with a bit more zest. I needed plug-in support. I found Jonas Forsberg post entitled Jekyll + Heroku + Unicorn = Blazing fast blogging and basically followed the step outlined below. sudo gem install heroku sudo gem install bundler heroku auth:login git clone git@github.com:himynameisjonas/jekyll-heroku-unicorn.git cd jekyll-heroku-unicorn bundle install heroku create git push heroku master That lead to a complete fail.https://the.nullog.net/2012/08/prose.io/Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/08/prose.io/ Prose is a web-based interface for managing text-based content in your GitHub repositories. Use it to create, edit, and delete files, and save your changes directly to GitHub. Prosehttps://the.nullog.net/2012/08/hello-world/Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400https://the.nullog.net/2012/08/hello-world/Nothing to see here, yet. Just another amoeba learning to walk, look lively as you exit on the left.