Category: Blog
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Anna’s Hawaiian Vacation: Day 4
We hit the beach first thing in the morning again today, only this time we rented paddle boards! We played with those all morning, until the wind started picking up and a slight rain started. Then we went in for lunch. We dropped my brother off at the airport after lunch, since he has to…
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Anna’s Hawaiian Vacation: Day 3
We didn’t have anything planned for this morning, so I let myself sleep in … until 5:30. I’m still waking up with the sun, even when I’m on vacation. We spent the morning swimming at a couple of beaches that had been recommended to us. Then we got ready for today’s main event: the Grand…
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Anna’s Hawaiian Vacation: Day 2
It’s a good thing we haven’t adjusted to the Hawaii timezone yet, because today we got up early to go snorkeling! We went on a tour guided by the Pacific Whale Foundation, an organization dedicated to saving endangered species of whales from extinction. Our first stop was at Molokini, a volcanic crater formed around 230,000…
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Anna’s Hawaiian Vacation: Day 1
I’m in Hawaii this week for a family vacation! We flew in late last night, and checked into a hotel near the airport to get some sleep. Today we moved on to the timeshare unit we’re staying in for the rest of the week. We had a bit of time to wander around the hotel…
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Chocolate Chip Cheesecake
I’ve been wanting to post about cheesecake for several months now, and what better time than just after Thanksgiving? Rather than just posting pictures with a brief description, this post will walk you through my cheesecake recipe step-by-step. It takes several days to make a cheesecake, so I recommend planning ahead.…
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IT Department Woes
Certain on-line tools at work will greet me with a friendly “Welcome, Bryan” when I log in. This has bothered me for a while, but updating my name in the system would involve talking to our IT department. I do not like talking to Corporate IT. I have filed support tickets in the past, and…
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Ruby and I went camping!
I went camping with several of my friends last weekend. Ruby came along too, and we had quite the adventure! You can click on the pictures below to see a larger version and to read captions.…
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Shaping Gouda
If you have ever purchased a wedge of Gouda, then you may have noticed that the cheese tends to have a smooth, round curve on one end. Standard cheese molds make flat, pill-tablet shaped cheeses with a corner and not a round edge. I’ve heard there are tricks you can use to simulate a bowl-shaped…
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A Chipmunk Story
I was sitting in my living room a few days ago when my cat, Corran, wandered over and started playing with his chipmunk toy. He was having fun, so I watched him play for a few moments … until I remembered that we don’t have a chipmunk toy. He was playing with an actual, dead…
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Profiling Linux Kernel Modules
Code profiling is a useful technique to help find what sections of code that might be written inefficiently. Profiling a usperspace application is well documented, but I had to piece together the process for profiling a Linux kernel module. Here is how you do it: Make sure the oprofile package is installed on your system. …