I got a Qotom Q350G4Y fanless mini PC to replace my current router. This is going to be a big learning project!

At the end of June I experienced a catastrophic hard drive failure: I turned on my computer and heard a metallic ping, followed by the gut-wrenching grinding noise of something dragged across the spinning platters. I turned the computer off immediately, but when I booted it back up a few …

For a long time I've loved having the Link Widgets extension for Firefox installed; it has very powerful navigational tools that look at the webpage content and determine what the "Next" and "Previous" pages are, relative to the current page. (As an example, if I'm viewing a comic from May …

This morning I woke up and the first thought on my mind was "If I write a feed reader that allows people to follow a conversation in a blog entry's comments, how will they participate in the conversation?"

I already had some idea that the technology might exist: a long …

I've started working to migrate my online presence back to kurtmckee.org; it's been two-and-a-half years since I self-hosted my blog, and in that time I've fragmented my identity across LiveJournal, Blogger, Tumblr, and a smattering of other services including YouTube and Flickr.

Thus far I've upgraded my Wordpress install …

Although rarely online, I signed on today and realized that I hadn't installed and configured Pidgin-encryption. Pidgin-encryption encrypts your instant messaging conversations so that they cannot be read while in transit; without it, it is trivially easy for others to eavesdrop on your online conversations.

If you're not using Pidgin …

I installed a Firefox extension recently that has been blowing my socks off, and it's called FireGPG. FireGPG adds GPG support to Firefox, like how Enigmail adds GPG support to Thunderbird.

Encryption (and cryptographic signatures) continue to fascinate me -- I firmly believe that encryption is an absolute necessity for every …

I've been using Yahoo for all of my search needs for the past month (at least, since the news broke that Viacom convinced a judge to force YouTube, which is owned by Google, to hand over all of its user data). Seriously, I encourage you to try a new search …

As a first attempt at expanding my comment tracking software, I did a little testing in regards to scraping LiveJournal comments. Having written some uncomfortably convoluted XSL transformations in the past, I've become familiar with XPath. While BeautifulSoup has served me well in the past for quick excursions into the …

I have finally finished backing up all of my data. It took four DVDs, but I finally did it. It would have required several more had I not filtered my music files for backup, however. In particular, the only music that I truly had to save were the songs I've …

What technologies would best encourage debate and communication between a politician and his adoring public?

Yesterday I rediscovered a bug in my alarm clock's programming, so I thought it would be fun to document the bug.

People seem to be finding the site because of my Xanga Archiver. I guess I'd better keep improving it!

I've been trying to create Liferea filters, but so far I've had no luck.

Man alive, Allan stopped by tonight - we watched "Free Culture", a speech Lawrence Lessig gave in 2002.

I've been working on a script to archive a Xanga user's posts and comments.

With Cherokee's latest bug fixes, I may just stick with it!

I finally checked my /etc/messages file today, and discovered that script kiddies have been trying to hack in.

I purchased two songs using PyMusique, and I think it's great.

I'm going to take the plunge and register a domain tomorrow.