Back at the Desk, 1,000+ Unread
First day back at the desk after the holidays, staring down a thousand-plus unread RSS items, a squeaky chair, and the usual pile of resolutions I probably won't keep.
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Looking Ahead to 2012
A New Year's Eve rundown of half-baked guesses about 2012: Siri, Android fragmentation, cheap tablets, the SOPA fight, and Apple without Steve Jobs.
A Year of techpad, More or Less
A look back at a year of running techpad: what got read, what flopped, and the weird month of December that closed it out.
A Holiday Gift Guide for Developer Friends
A last-minute holiday gift guide for developer friends: mechanical keyboards, a couple of books worth actually giving, and gadgets to be careful with.
Finally Turned the Junk Closet Into a Home Theater PC
I finally turned a milk crate of old computer parts into a working home theater PC this weekend, complete with a dying hard drive, an Ubuntu detour I regret, and a remote that worked way too easily.
A Nerd's Holiday Shopping List
A lazy weekend rundown of what I'd actually buy the geeky people in my life this year, from a $199 tablet to a good reason to skip a certain phone carrier.
Two Months
It's been exactly two months since Steve Jobs died, and this is just me noticing that, without trying to turn it into a bigger point than it is.
November Wrap-Up
A rundown of the apps I actually used in November, some jQuery and Carrier IQ lessons, a failed Ubuntu experiment, and my ongoing feud with the cold weather.
My Thanksgiving Gadget Wishlist
A rambling pre-Thanksgiving gadget wishlist covering the Kindle Fire, the Galaxy Nexus, Siri at the dinner table, and why Ubuntu's new Unity interface is currently ruining my life.
Finally Fixing the Home Network
A weekend spent finally replacing a dying router, building a two-bay NAS out of a closet shelf, and losing an entire afternoon to cable management and a DHCP lease bug.