Month: July 2012

  • A collection of old photos

    I’m an avid amateur photographer. I held out against digital photography for a long time after it was obvious to everyone else that it was the future. And although I long since gave in to the inevitable[1], I took thousands of photographs on film over the years. Many were shared, in one form or another.…


  • Markup languages for writing

    When I started writing for the web several years ago, content management systems didn’t commonly include WYSIWYG editors. Typically I wrote posts in standard HTML, and the editors at best had automatic insertion of paragraph tags and javascript buttons to insert text styling cues such as bold and italics. I was never a fan of…


  • Interior bike rack for a 2012 Ford Focus hatchback

    The best way to carry a bike? I want to be able to carry a bike in my car. Both so I can have my bike with me on road trips and to try new trails outside my normal riding distance from home. The obvious way to mount a bike on a car is to…