I finally grabbed a link to my piece in Wired for you all to read. It came out really well and I encourage you to buy the tablet edition and share the story far and wide to show Wired that they need more watch content. It’s a great nerd topic that is far underserved.

Enjoy the read and let me know what you think. As always, please sign up for more info on the book as I approach the end of this long, weird journey.

A few years ago I created audiomonger.com, a site that was supposed to be about music. It languished for a few years, sat quietly unused, and now it’s being reborn.

Not that anyone particularly cares, but I recently dug up some work I did way back in 1991 when I was a Bishop Watterson High School sophomore. As a quiet, friendless nerd (except for my equally quiet, friendless friend Rick), I was fascinated by UNIX and found a book at the library that basically showed you how to write all of the UNIX commands (ls, cd, etc.) under DOS. There was another application, a fake command.com that turned your fonts upside down and all sorts of things, designed to scare people using your computer. I think it was called AprilFools or something. That app included C source code and basically amounted to a command.com replacement, albeit a dopey one.

I’ve put seven chapters of Mytro up on PressBooks, an open source way to share epubs. Please read them and enjoy. I’d love some feedback as I finish the book.

We’d been using Sodastream for a few years and were a bit tired of the cost and the hassle of getting new bottles delivered. While, for the vast majority of users, Sodastream is great, it just wasn’t for us. But how could we get inexpensive carbonated water?