Dumbest girl on the planet!

June 25th, 2010 No comments

I have nothing to add to this.

Showdown in Searchlight Tea Party

March 27th, 2010 No comments

Smoke from the “Station Fire” infiltrating Las Vegas

August 30th, 2009 1 comment

Those pesky Californians are at it again. Now they’re invading our airspace with their smoke! And I thought they were environmentalists…

Smoke from the "Station Fire" as viewed from Mt. Wilson Read more…

Snow in Las Vegas!

December 17th, 2008 No comments

It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then…

Snow in Las Vegas

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Brain bucket for the brain dead

July 23rd, 2008 No comments

Forgive the picture quality…

stupidrider

What’s the point of bringing a helmet if you’re not going to wear it? Read more…

(Great) Tail of a Grackle

May 22nd, 2008 No comments

The wind here in Las Vegas has been pretty strong the last couple of days. It’s often windy here (deserts are like that), but we’ve seen particularly strong gusts for the last day or two.

Besides intermittent cable TV and internet service, another (often overlooked) casualty of such winds is the wildlife. Read more…

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Greylisting

May 8th, 2008 No comments

I’ve implemented greylisting on my mail server, and I have to say that the initial impact is quite dramatic.

Greylisting is a relatively simple mechanism for defeating spam. Read more…

Playing around with GD, PHP and Latitude/Longitude

April 12th, 2008 No comments

A friend of mine asked whether or not I could create a service like MapLoco. They log the IP addresses of your visitors and create a nifty little map showing where they come from.

I told him that as long as I could get the latitude and longitude for a given IP address, I could very likely do it. Half an hour later, I had created a simple proof of concept example. Read more…

Using a sound card as a Music on Hold source in Asterisk

December 15th, 2007 2 comments

Using the line-in port with Trixbox or PBX-in-a-Flash (PiaF)

Asterisk is a fantastic piece of software. You get world class PBX functionality for free, in a package that you can reliably run on a desktop computer.

One area that Asterisk isn’t as world class in is Music on Hold (MoH). Sure, it’s there and it works, but it starts playing a file from the beginning whenever someone is placed on hold. If you have customers who call regularly, they’re hearing the same part of the same files all the time – not ideal.

What I wanted to do was use my MP3 player as a MoH source Read more…

Comet 17P/Holmes Animation

November 2nd, 2007 No comments

Each night, starting on Halloween, I’ve been taking photos of the patch of sky containing comet Holmes. I’m using the photos to create an animated GIF which shows the comet’s movement across the sky over a period of time. Read more…