Year: 2023

  • Twenty years ago today

    Twenty years ago today

    Twenty years ago today I missed the University of Michigan vs. Ohio State University football game for a date with a stranger I met on the internet. It was the best decision of my life. I brought along a deck of cards and a cribbage board to the Cafe Verdé coffee shop in Ann Arbor,…


  • How loud is a wind turbine?

    Germany has a goal to stop using coal power plants by 2030. The plan is to install a bunch more solar panels and wind turbines. We already have quite a few wind turbines, but we need many more. According to many, the current bottleneck is not industry, but rather bureaucracy. It can several years to…


  • Collapse all the things!

    Collapse all the things!

    When I first created this blog in 2006, I found one thing severely lacking in WordPress – the display of archives. I wanted an expandable and collapsible list of archives like Blogger had in my sidebar, instead of just a dropdown or a big list. Of course, one thing that WordPress has had from a…


  • Yet another website re-design

    Yet another website re-design

    This is the third post about redesigning my website now. I did a major re-write and re-design in 2010, and then again in 2021. I have been thinking about redesigning again for over a year, after the release of WordPress 5.9, which added full-site editing (FSE) also known as the “Site Editor”. This takes the…


  • Book Review: The Wild Path

    Book Review: The Wild Path

    Last week I travelled to Panama for a work trip, which was an eleven and a half hour plane ride, so it was a great opportunity for me to read another book by Sarah Baughman – The Wild Path. I enjoyed her first book, The Light in the Lake, so much that I wrote a…


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