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Views from Twin Peaks In San Francisco on a Clear Christmas Day, 2007

There were other things happening on Christmas Day in San Francisco besides the tiger mauling at the Zoo. It actually was a very clear day. We took some pictures from Twin Peaks because you so rarely get such a clear view. Links go to full downloads.
San Francisco View From Twin Peaks 1
San Francisco View From [...]

The Angry.Org Story

Details will continue to be added as time permits…
Back in 1994/1995 I was working for Faludi Computing Inc. as a consultant and we wanted to play around and get familiar with DNS. So, we decided to put a basic webserver up with a funny domain name to test configurations and how the DNS propagated out [...]

San Francisco restaurant ratings online

There are so many restaurants in San Francisco and so many sites that have bias and or sponsored reviews it is nice to have some sort of site with clear ratings. Cleanscores.com covers San Francisco and now Los Angeles restaurants and posts the inspection scores of the local authorities.
Yes, they don’t post service ratings, [...]

Getting rid of gophers in the garden

The gophers in San Francisco are tough and smart. There are not many places or them to go, so if you do have a garden, they know how to stay around. I guess they are also pretty tough because they must hit a lot of cement! The other aspect is, at least where we are [...]

Read and Write NTFS on OS X Leopard

It finally is possible and stable.
Thanks to MacFuse and NTFS-3G. I have it running on an Intel MacBook Pro and Leopard (OS X 10.5).
This is extremely useful in dealing with large files between operating systems. We have Lacie Firewire/USB external drive that is NTFS to handle large files (greater than 4 gig) and [...]

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