Archive for March, 2005

Better Browsing (In 10 Minutes)
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

If you have 10 minutes to spare, I can promise you a better browsing experience. First, download Firefox. If you haven’t done so already, do it now — it will only take a few minutes. And even if you already have, now is a good time to get the latest version (1.0.2). Just click on [...]

On Borrowing Bandwidth (And A Bit Of A Prank)
Monday, March 28th, 2005

Over the years I’ve posted some of my photography here on unto.net. A few of the series, particularly the abstract ones were well received, and occasionally turn up around the net in interesting places. This is all well and good, especially since I’ve licensed all of my work under the Creative Commons License, which allows [...]

Redirector
Sunday, March 27th, 2005

To be honest, I’m not even sure why I wrote this. Last weekend I was playing around and noticed a link to the TinyURL.com site. You may have seen those URLs before — they provide a mapping of long URLs to short URLs and perform a redirection service. For example, the URL http://tinyurl.com/623ft redirects back [...]

Capresso Burr Grinder
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

I’m not exactly obsessive when it comes to coffee. I mean, I didn’t rush out and buy the $2,000 Capresso Impressa S9 Espresso Machine. But I do like coffee and drink a fair bit of it, and know that you need a combination of good beans, good water, and good equipment to really enjoy it. [...]

Bravely March
Sunday, March 20th, 2005

Update: These photographs have been relocated to http://www.unto.net/unto/gallery/album/san-francisco/. Some photographs from the neighborhood and a Sunday walk up Twin Peaks. (Until I get my photogallery plug-in to output to the RSS feed, if you are reading this in a blogreader then you will need to view the original post to see the pictures.)