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  •  2016 (2)
    •  May 2016 (1)
    • • Silicon Valley Is Not A Fun Place.
    •  Apr 2016 (1)
    • • How to spend a day seeing the debaucherous and depraved underbelly of beautiful San Francisco.
  •  2013 (3)
    •  Sep 2013 (1)
    • • Scrolling Sites on iOS - mobile apps requires something other than HTML/CSS
    •  Mar 2013 (1)
    • • A conversation about Quality in Manufacturing, and American Made
    •  Jan 2013 (1)
    • • Wifi on the Raspberry Pi using EDIMAX EW-7811Un and the 2012-12-16 wheezy raspbian image
  •  2012 (2)
    •  Oct 2012 (1)
    • • Quotes
    •  Mar 2012 (1)
    • • A Partial Review of Object Oriented Javascript
  •  2011 (4)
    •  Sep 2011 (1)
    • • Motorcycle shops and parts places for vintage japanese bikes in the Bay Area
    •  Apr 2011 (1)
    • • Pat's paper-writing formula.
    •  Mar 2011 (1)
    • • The Ideal TextMate Setup.
    •  Jan 2011 (1)
    • • X-Macros
  •  2010 (14)
    •  Dec 2010 (2)
    • • Design Principles for Structuring iPhone Apps
      • Nighttime driving
    •  Nov 2010 (1)
    • • What rebuilding an engine (re)taught me about software engineering
    •  Oct 2010 (6)
    • • reverse-i-search: Quicksilver for Bash
      • Running CUDA without running X
      • Coffee
      • Creating a SVN-Like Centralized Git repository
      • New hardware! 32 core box!
      • Haskell Idioms (Part 1?)
    •  Sep 2010 (1)
    • • GTC 2010 Trip Report
    •  Jul 2010 (1)
    •  Apr 2010 (2)
    • • Comparing floating point numbers for equality.
      • Compiling the pbrt 1.04 raytracer on mac OS X 10.6
    •  Feb 2010 (1)
    • • Installing Numpy and SciPy on Snow Leopard - the easy way
  •  2009 (17)
    •  Dec 2009 (2)
    • • RexPC: Running EEEbuntu on eeePc 701 as a Carputer in my WRX
      • RexPC: Planning my WRX's built-in computer
    •  Nov 2009 (1)
    • • Windows to Mac Screen Sharing
    •  Aug 2009 (3)
    • • Resizing your HFS+ partition? Oh boy, Adobe licenses suck!
      • Arduino 16 SD and SPI interfacing
      • Students arent made the way they used to be
    •  Jun 2009 (1)
    • • Intelligentsia, and what I hope to see in more cafe's
    •  May 2009 (4)
    • • Domain specific knowledge in Music. Mainstream hip-hop's problem.
      • BruteSoft comes out of stealth!
      • Python is Wrong
      • The 10x programmer's secret - Domain Specific Knowledge
    •  Apr 2009 (1)
    • • Repair: Rewiring your Sennheiser HD 280 Pro
    •  Feb 2009 (4)
    • • Real Time Raytracing Success!
      • Monitors monitors monitors! What's with 16:9 and shiny plastic bevels?
      • Dawn on a Rainy Day - Hackathon 09
      • I got into Stanford, now what?
    •  Jan 2009 (1)
    • • Valve Complete Pack
  •  2008 (19)
    •  Dec 2008 (2)
    • • Hackintosh: Installing OS X on my PC - Triple boot osx, ubuntu and windows xp
      • The Ending of an Era.
    •  Aug 2008 (1)
    • • Skydiving
    •  Jul 2008 (1)
    • • Being the Boss - an incomplete opinion on managing teams from the intern in the group.
    •  Jun 2008 (1)
    • • Installing Eclipse on Fedora Core 5 (with its own Java JRE)
    •  May 2008 (2)
    • • Rockband - with Computer Vision
      • Building OpenCV in Ubuntu 8.04
    •  Apr 2008 (2)
    • • CHI 2008: Yay we made it in!
      • DSLExtreme - my choice as ISP
    •  Mar 2008 (2)
    • • The Tree Sitters of Berkeley
      • How to get your roommates to clean up the apartment, or, writing SMS Gateway Apps
    •  Feb 2008 (5)
    • • Wanna reset your MySQL root password on Ubuntu?
      • SVN: Converting from BerkeleyDB to FSFS
      • Shaders!
      • Wiring the apartment - setting up DHCP and Routing on Ubuntu
      • Why I took my Shuttle XPC Back - Linux on the Shuttle XPC SG33G5
    •  Jan 2008 (3)
    • • Ubuntu on Shuttle XPC SG33G5 (Intel G33 chipset)
      • ASUS eeePC - First Looks
      • "Topgun according to Tarantino"
  •  2007 (45)
    •  Dec 2007 (3)
    • • NowTune.com now with hotlinking playlists
      • Copywrite in the Music Industry
      • NowTune.com live
    •  Nov 2007 (2)
    • • Music
      • Husky Rescue
    •  Oct 2007 (4)
    • • This Semester's Rough!
      • Plush - Jet Life
      • YUM (Yellow Dog Updater) and MySQL 5
      • Configuring client routing tables through DHCP
    •  Sep 2007 (3)
    • • There's always time for a little laugh...
      • Conversations in the Astro lab
      • The Death of Lona Antoniades. The Death of an Angel
    •  Aug 2007 (10)
    • • First Test of Arduino with Max7219 LED Driver and LTP2657 LED Matrix
      • Strange Music videos, and Youtube - now with Inline Ads!
      • Kill -9 rap
      • Avenue Q - The Internet is for Porn
      • Let's connect many many LEDs to Arduino
      • The First Arduino Project: TinyVU
      • First Experiences with Arduino (and setup instructions!)
      • How Propaganda Works
      • What Barry Says: The American War Machine
      • Electric Daisy Carnival - In retrospect
    •  Jul 2007 (8)
    • • Paprika
      • Wait... you thought the MPAA does NOT concone movie copying? But they do it themselves, dude
      • An open letter to John Soat.
      • Setting up Eclipse for Red5 Development
      • FireEagle & TripTracker - Where I am and What Pictures i'm taking!
      • This is a sweet flickrstream widget!
      • Pogramming tip of the day
      • Holocaust survivor leaving the US
    •  Jun 2007 (3)
    • • EDC Baby!
      • The 'Hawk is Back
      • Fon.com's Fontenna a disappointment, although other factors might be to blame.
    •  May 2007 (3)
    • • The Semester in Retrospect
      • Handy Tip: Adding custom entries (Emacs!) to right click menu in Windows
      • You're always one step away from alienating your users...
    •  Mar 2007 (2)
    • • Apple - Will you really drop DRM?
      • Radioastronomy Website up!
    •  Feb 2007 (2)
    • • Getting CVS up and running at Berkeley EECS.
      • Yahoo, Astrophysics, Computer Science, Research - Too much to do, too little time!
    •  Jan 2007 (5)
    • • Lets pop the champane, Rails 1.2 has arrived!
      • The First Two Days - just getting into it.
      • Reddit is Awesome - Flaming Lips, Fusion Energy and No Pants combine!
      • Art meets Technology: Smart focusing creates beautiful pictures
      • Snowboard Extreme!
  •  2006 (48)
    •  Dec 2006 (6)
    • • WINE - ByeBye Windows
      • End of the Free World?
      • Tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la *whack whack whack*
      • Tag Clouds Clouding your view?
      • Perceptions of America and Notions of its fall
      • The Beryl Project - Productivity erasor or taking Linux desktops to the next level?
    •  Nov 2006 (8)
    • • woops... *slip*... BONK!
      • Jumping!
      • Its time to ride again: New World Disorder 7
      • Leonid Meteor Shower!
      • Jy was nog nooit in Lang traat as dit reen nie
      • Police Brutality at the University of California???
      • Hackers and Ethics
      • Yahoo! University Hack Day Success!!!
    •  Oct 2006 (4)
    • • Criticism and TheCafeTable
      • San Francisco Coffe during summertime.
      • Knoppix LINUX, coming to a USB drive near you!
      • Berkeley Nobel Prize!
    •  Sep 2006 (13)
    • • Yahoo! Hack Day: Winners and Photos!
      • Yahoo! Hack Day: blogging in motion Saturday 6:08 pm 9/30/06
      • Yahoo! Hack Day: Presentations!!!!
      • Yahoo! Hack Day: I have my 0.85 seconds of fame on CBS5!
      • Yahoo! Hack Day: Amazing Beck video!
      • Yahoo! Hack Day: ZoneTag Photo Friday 9:07 pm 9/29/06 Sunnyvale, California
      • Yahoo! Hack Day: News Featuring Hack Day and BECK ROCKS THE HOUSE
      • Yahoo! Hack Day: 10 Things You Need to Know To Be Ready to Hack in the Ecosystem
      • Yahoo! Hack Day: Email Web Service
      • Yahoo! Hack Day: Exceptional Performance
      • Silicon Graphics in South Africa... circa 1996
      • DJ Shadow with Chris James and Lateef the Truthspeaker opening for Massive Attack at the Greek in Berkeley...
      • CalSO is OVER AT LAST! And damn im happy i finally moved on.
    •  Jul 2006 (4)
    • • A series of unforgettable moments
      • ... where did it go?
      • untitled
      • Last 3 days of CalSO...
    •  Jun 2006 (6)
    • • Francie was wrong...
      • The Horrors of Racism
      • First Parent Program!
      • Today was a Big Day
      • The Night Before...
      • What does Hitler have to do with Universities?
    •  May 2006 (7)
    • • The Dangers of Exposure of Identity
      • Diversity Training (First of MAAANNYYY)!
      • bleag...
      • Tired...
      • Time to get real, yes?
      • I've never been in class for so long...
      • The day before... Summer has started, yet we're all still in Berkeley

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