Our nursery lacked any light switches but did have some wall sconces. As part of redecorating the room prior to making it a nursery back in 2013, I replaced the old sconces with some newer ones from Rejuvenation and installed a set of three Philips Hue light bulbs. As Philips ...
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The Rebel Alliance S-Wing "Mamaroo" Training Pod
Building a Little Helper Tower
With our little munchkin now being very curious whenever we're working in the kitchen, I decided to build him a Helping Tower based on plans from Ana White. I haven't done many woodworking projects in awhile, and certainly none of a larger size where finish quality mattered. The ...
read moreMaking a board book inspired by the Hobbit
(For pictures of all of the pages, click here.)
Shortly after my son was born I found that I was spending large amounts of time singing tunes and reading poems out of "board books" for children. For the uninitiated, a board book is a book for babies printed on thick ...
read moreIPv6 by the numbers: strong growth in second half of 2013
See my new work blog post. Excerpt:
read moreNo longer is IPv6 "just around the corner". It's here. In the half-year following when I last wrote about our measurements of IPv6 adoption, many of the metrics we were tracking have doubled. This is in large part due to increased adoption ...
Launching Forward with IPv6
See my work blog post:
Excerpt...
read moreWith the era of freely available IPv4 addresses nearing its end, I'm pleased to see that 2012 appears to be the year when the IPv6 Internet will finally reach maturity and launch into wide-scale commercial use. For over a ...
Norse plaque inspired by an old fireback
Ever since my early childhood I have fond memories of going to Camp Happy, my great aunt and uncles summer home up in Door County, Wisconsin. The home was supposedly built as a replica of a hunting lodge from the Old World. Installed above the fireplace was a wonderful bronze ...
read moreExperimenting with Cricut-assisted leather tooling
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="269" caption="Gears design, cut on the cricut and tooled."][
][][/caption]Recently, our friends Ariel and Andy inspired me to try using the Cricut (a 2D cutting plotter that can be controlled with third-party software called Sure-Cuts-A-Lot) to assist in leather-tooling and provided some leather ...
read moreOur wedding software
When Ksusha and I got married, I decided to use it as an opportunity to write some software to manage all aspects of our wedding, from tracking guests and RSVPs to generating place cards for printing. Given that half of the fun of wedding preparation (for us at least) was ...
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