http://www.briandowney.net/blog Technical musings of an entrepreneur. Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:17:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yet another cool-geeky thing.   Sort of wraps LoTR in with steampunk to bring you the wickedest clock I've ever seen: Not only is the mechanical execution of the clock spectacular, but the thought behind it is equally awesome/creepy: Your life is being eaten away by time, second by second, and represented ... http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/09/22/the-chronophage/ Every once in a while I run across something, that even in my advanced state of uber-geekness, puts me in a state of awe. Behold, the lego-robot that solves the Rubik's Cube. http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/07/21/rubiks-cube-robot/ Darn.  One of my favorite news-social-networking-aggregator sites (that's my meme for it) has closed its doors.  The landing page for http://rediggulo.us now reads: "It was fun while it lasted but we're done. Unfortunately, the experiment that was reddiggulo.us has come to an end. Why end it?  We're moving on to greener pastures. Anyways, thanks ... http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/07/02/rediggulous/ I have been itching to get Time Machine to work over a (unsupported) network-shared volume since we're unwilling to drop the cash for a Time Capsule.  I've seen quite a few different posts on how to get it done, including the terminal trick to tell Time Machine to use unsupported ... http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/07/01/time-machine-via-afp/ It has been almost a week, and the situation out / up here has gotten slowly, and progressively worse.   Most of the fire seems to be focused on the west side of town now, and the smoke has cleared out of the valley for the most part, giving us a ... http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/06/27/fires-still-raging/ This past Saturday morning I went up to Benton to take one of my last lessons and instead watched a nasty lighting storm roll through.    Mix lightning and dry terrian, and you can imagine what happens next. We have about 50 or so major fires going on in the highlands around ... http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/06/23/fire-fire-everwhere/ Today Tex and I took Phaedrah up for a ride in 5519J. Though she liked the ride, it got a little bumpy at the end--and she ended up getting a little motion sickness. All in all she had a good time, which is what counts! Do we possibly have another ... http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/05/29/phaedrah-flew/ What great day! We started out by doing some usual pattern work at Benton, a total of three landings. After the third, my coach asked me to taxi up to the building's garage, and then he proceeded to get out of the plane. Next he said: "Now it's ... http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/05/16/first-solo-flight/ After heading down to Disneyland last week, I got back on the horse and went up with my flight coach this morning. After having a week off, a bit of "skills rust" formed--mainly just flying the plane on final before landing. Nothing major; I just needed a few gentle reminders to ... http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/05/15/flying-solo-soon/ I think I've mentioned many times on this blog, but one of the most satisfying things regarding Linux and Unix are that you're never done learning about it. A never-ending lesson in operating systems! Well, chalk up another lightbulb moment for me this morning. Imagine a script wherein a process ... http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/05/05/bash-pipeline-exit-codes/