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2024

Jun 02: Mama

2023

Mar 14: Exploring Vancouver, Washington

2020

Jul 05: IPv6 with Ubiquiti Edgerouter ER8 on AT&T
Jul 03: OS X Samba with a Linux Server
Apr 05: New Arrival: Stella
Apr 01: The Dumbest Zoom Mute Button In The World
Feb 03: Our Step Dog Cody

2019

Sep 28: A rant about Cardo Packtalk Slim
Jun 12: Year of the Linux Desktop, Part 1

2017

2015

Nov 25: Word of the day: Ouch.
Nov 15: RPLND
Oct 16: I'm done with the cancer, but the cancer isn't done with me
Oct 01: Goodbye, my dopey dog.
Sep 28: So long, Alex King
Aug 28: The best day of my life this year!
Aug 15: Progress scans are inconclusive
Jul 17: Achievement Unlocked: Chemo Complete!
Jul 07: Down with a sickness
Jun 23: Round 3 lingers…
May 26: Round 2 begins
May 20: On losing hair
May 15: Solving the World's Fluffy Tailed Rodent Problem
May 11: Chemo: day 5 (belated)
May 07: Chemo: day 4
May 06: Chemo: day 3
May 05: Chemo: day 2
May 04: Gaining strength through the pain of others.
May 04: Chemo: day 1
May 04: More co-worker shenanigans
May 01: Ya know what? I work for a wonderful company.
Apr 25: Chemo Schedule & Dicks
Apr 20: With co-workers like these…
Apr 17: Cancer verdict: Stage IIC Seminoma
Apr 17: Yeah, I've been sitting like that lately too
Apr 16: Pathology, Finally
Apr 08: Murderous Family Jewel

2014

Aug 31: 1972 CB350 Rebuild Begins

2013

Jul 16: Digging up the past
Jul 15: Happy Monkey
Jul 13: So, who likes that new Y! nav bar on Flickr?
Jul 07: Point Reyes
May 15: A few handy git aliases
Jan 27: Operation Shave the Wookiee, the Return
Jan 24: Art at Stanford
Jan 08: A Winters Day at the Beach with the Fuji X-E1

2012

Jul 26: MacPorts, Homebrew and Mountain Lion
Jul 05: Alcatraz
Jun 19: Post Password Token updated for WordPress 3.4
May 20: Solar Eclipse
Mar 26: Peeled Bark
Feb 11: Subway Fiddler
Jan 26: WordPress TextMate Bundle: Better late than never edition (aka: 3.3)
Jan 23: Religion in Politics
Jan 07: USS Iowa
Jan 06: WordPress Bundle now works with The TextMate 2 Alpha

2011

Dec 18: Building a web
Dec 13: TextMate 2 and the WordPress Bundle
Oct 16: First to Bloom
Oct 06: Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
Sep 26: A few PHP Dev Helper functions
Sep 18: Funny little toad
Sep 14: New WP Salts command in the WordPress TextMate bundle
Sep 03: Fog
Aug 18: curl'ing a URL in TextMate
Aug 06: A day at the beach
Jul 10: WordPress TextMate bundle updated for WordPress 3.2
May 24: man Files as PDF, revisited.
May 22: Window Seat: I just can't help myself…
May 05: Bash snippet to remove a line from a file
Mar 14: Beware MAMP's default Caching Settings
Mar 11: Operation "Shave the Wookiee" is a success!
Mar 11: The Genitorturers at the Summit Music Hall
Mar 06: The Dropkick Murphys & Against Me! at The Fillmore Auditorium
Mar 05: Operation "Shave the Wookiee" is under way.
Feb 26: The Dum Dum Girls
Jan 29: Why the AppleTV needs to support more video formats
Jan 20: Look in to my eye…
Jan 19: Night of the Bassists
Jan 18: View man files as PDF

2010

Dec 27: WordPress TextMate Bundle Updated
Dec 24: D.R.I. at the Bluebird Theater
Dec 19: Angry toy is being stalked by the monster computer case…
Dec 12: What month is this again?
Dec 04: Freelance Whales at the Hi-Dive, Denver
Dec 01: One more place to pollute the interwebs
Nov 27: Gettin' Tattoo'd
Nov 18: Brandi Carlile at Boettcher Concert Hall
Nov 14: The Heavy at The Bluebird Theater
Nov 04: EOS 7D First Impressions
Oct 31: Back in the saddle with Season's After
Oct 24: Denver Zombie Crawl, 2010
Oct 15: Our Fearless Intern
Oct 08: Its hockey season again!
Oct 06: AppleScript to Detect Displays on Snow Leopard
Oct 04: New York!
Sep 20: And I wasn't even being chased!
Sep 12: 2010 National Radial Engine Exhibition
Sep 05: Brett Michaels at the Taste of Colorado
Aug 30: Now that's a lot of frogs!
Aug 28: Colorado Sport International Airshow.
Aug 21: So fuzzy!
Aug 14: Baseball!
Aug 10: A bit wonky, but I still like it
Aug 02: WordPress export, import and double serialization.
Aug 01: It was a flower kinda day this morning
Jul 26: Rooftop Sunset
Jul 21: WordPress TextMate Bundle Updated
Jul 15: Firefox view-source tab-width
Jul 10: photos.top-frog.com
Jul 04: Another day at the zoo: the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo this time
Jul 01: A simple way to limit file downloads to only logged in users in WordPress
Jun 19: Non race photos from a day at the races
Jun 17: WordPress TextMate Bundle is ready for WordPress 3.0
Jun 06: Day 2 of the Denver Chalk Art Festival
Jun 05: 10 Years of Marriage…
May 31: Goose Aerobics
May 29: Automatically download Chromium nightly builds
May 27: Open a file's parent folder as a Project in TextMate
May 27: Add Bash syntax highlighting to Coda
May 24: Playin' close to home
May 21: New Internationalization feature in the WordPress TextMate Bundle
May 20: Post Password Token plugin for WordPress version 1.2 released
May 15: Bees!
May 07: As seen on Bare Bones' website
May 05: The Rockies from the Window Seat.
Apr 15: Cherry Blossoms
Apr 04: Dried up and colorful
Mar 30: Everything I know about optimizing a WordPress install on Apache
Mar 29: Shoes on a wire
Mar 25: Jewelry Box Landscape
Mar 19: Springtime in Denver…
Mar 15: Enable Etherpad to send email via GMail
Feb 15: Lil' Miss Hummingbird
Feb 03: Blinking question mark on OS X Boot? Don't panic just yet.

2009

Dec 24: That means no iTunes movie purchases for me.
Dec 20: WordPress TextMate bundle & BBEdit Clippings updated for WordPress 2.9
Dec 18: Quickly View WordPress DB Credentials
Dec 08: Dragon Scale Bracelet
Dec 08: Post Password Token plugin for WordPress updated.
Dec 06: More Snow.
Dec 05: WordPress TextMate Bundle updates
Nov 25: High-key Blue Snowball
Nov 21: Happy pups…
Nov 15: Its a wet snow…
Nov 10: Post Password Token Plugin for WordPress updated
Oct 25: That's gonna mess with the daily stats for a while.
Oct 24: Zombie Crawl Denver, 2009
Oct 20: One Virus Too Many
Oct 15: A Grand View
Oct 10: Reading Material
Oct 03: Function definition tool-tips added to the WordPress TextMate Bundle
Oct 02: 2009 Avalanche Home Opener
Sep 28: Sunrise at the track
Sep 25: Easy camera tethering with OS X 10.6
Sep 18: WordPress users: USE A FAVICON!
Sep 12: Flickr Image URLs to BBCode in OS X 10.6 and Automator
Sep 08: WordPress Post Password Token plugin
Sep 04: Grand Funk Railroad
Aug 28: Quickly unserialize PHP array data in TextMate
Aug 26: MacPorts, php5-mysql & mysqlnd
Aug 21: Use array_merge to reorder arrays
Aug 10: Type Casting in MySQL, One Possible Application
Aug 09: Taming iTunes lack of auto-window resizing
Aug 03: Hiking: I don’t do enough of it.
Jul 28: Sort arrays by key revisited
Jul 23: WordPress Clippings Bundle for BBEdit
Jul 20: Late Night Summer Storm
Jul 14: Excluding packages from MacPorts operations
Jul 10: Simple, but handy .htaccess tricks
Jul 09: Video Tutorials: just because you can, doesn't mean you should
Jul 06: Announcing the SP Source Code Highlighter plugin for WordPress
Jun 26: Quickly validate PHP files
Jun 24: Storage Beast
Jun 19: WordPress TextMate bundle updated for WordPress 2.8
May 09: Foxes
Apr 29: Announcing the WordPress TextMate Bundle
Apr 23: Client side pre- and post-svn hooks with Unix Aliases
Apr 16: Matching Wedding Rings
Apr 03: Search and replace directly within MySQL.
Mar 31: Pearl Jam: Ten > Ten (Legacy Edition)
Mar 30: Mac OS X, Subversion, and Keychain
Mar 30: Holy Spam, Batman!
Mar 29: Site rebuilt on WordPress
Mar 14: I should redesign
Mar 05: Of MacBook Pros and Hard Drive swapping
Mar 02: WordCamp Denver, 2009. My humble experience.
Feb 22: Lipsum Plugin for WordPress, Version 2
Feb 18: jQuery Image Slider: Improved
Feb 17: Stupid ASCII Addition Answer Page
Feb 17: What I want in my next digital camera
Feb 13: Mess!
Feb 11: Javascript table row highlighting. Then and Now.
Jan 19: Hm.

2008

Nov 17: 3 year old bug, really?
Nov 02: Gears of War 2 and getting my shit together
Sep 28: 30 Minute, 4 AM, jQuery image slider
Sep 07: Quick thought for the day
Sep 06: Canadian Immigration Laws
Sep 01: Puddlemonkey.com updated
Aug 27: Is it the DNC or a donut convention?
Aug 19: Stop moving my iPhone icons!
Aug 18: Water water.
Jul 28: SU from within VIM
Jun 26: SSH Connect Script, Hax, Whatever…
Jun 20: WordPress Lipsum Plugin
Jun 19: MySQL bug with GROUP BY
Jun 09: Apple's MobileMe drops support for IE6
Jun 04: “su” to root on OS X without enabling the root user
Jun 03: Is Twitter a bit creepy? And spammy.
May 26: Who would do such a thing?
May 24: I'm one sorry out of shape sod
May 16: Comcast Sucks
May 04: Furry Scurry
May 02: Gippy's Got a New Job
Apr 23: Neglected!
Apr 02: Server Room
Feb 25: It is Alive!
Jan 17: Embed Flash Video in a page via JavaScript
Jan 17: tmbundle update
Jan 16: MacHeist – not this year
Jan 05: Road to Recovery

2007

Dec 26: My New Best Friend
Dec 25: Flickr Me This
Dec 12: It seems I have a mail problem…
Oct 12: MDS (Spotlight) and Parallels
Aug 30: File upload class – it is fixed!
Aug 15: Fuzzy Coconut Logo
Jul 24: XBox 360 #2 is dead
Jul 05: XHTMLr (beta)
Jun 21: Today's Hot Topics
Jun 14: Apple Software Update on Windows XP – What a Crock!
Jun 11: Safari 3 Beta
May 31: Easily install and update TextMate bundles from SVN
May 04: I want my OS X VM
Apr 30: Internet Explorer 7 User Agent Strings…
Apr 23: Reason #137 to like TextEdit
Mar 16: Long Live the Image Map!
Mar 16: Case Insensitivity and a bite in the ass
Feb 01: When it rains it pours, or dumps snow
Jan 15: Upping the speed of top-frog, and a little about the future
Jan 11: Let's hear it for customizeable toolbars

2006

Dec 22: Classes for file uploading in PHP
Dec 21: Snow Dog
Dec 20: Early Christmas Present
Dec 20: Convert file size denominations in PHP
Dec 15: Tight lips lose Apple business
Dec 14: Embed Google Video and YouTube – Now bigger and better
Dec 11: WTF, SonicWALL?
Dec 06: 5.2 or not 5.2, that is the question…
Nov 28: Multiple Firefox Homepages
Nov 22: Show PHP source without duplicating files
Nov 12: We finally got our xBox 360
Nov 10: InDesign, XML Import, and Whitespace
Nov 10: Fun with Finder Windows
Nov 08: PHP: Sort Multidimensional arrays by key
Nov 08: Broken 4G iPod? Maybe not…
Oct 21: Gippy vs. HP EPC
Oct 20: This site and IE 7
Oct 15: Clouds
Oct 14: Force Internet Explorer BSOD
Oct 13: Javascript to embed YouTube and Google Video
Oct 09: Hockey Hockey
Oct 06: A Welcome Change to TextEdit
Oct 06: And now an iTunes bitch…
Oct 06: Comfy?
Oct 05: Safari, View Source and Character Encodings
Sep 30: Quote of the day
Sep 30: Setting the base directory in PHP
Sep 30: Exhibitionist
Sep 26: Tasty VIM Morsel
Sep 19: Disk Image to the Rescue!
Sep 15: Hard drive failure is good?
Sep 07: Ok, NOW I'm pissed at the OS X Finder
Sep 01: Freebies galore.
Aug 14: Is this a normal coding enviroment?
Aug 03: Turn off FTP. Go Secure!
Jul 12: MySQL speed up tip for OS X
Jul 09: Javascript, IE and Generating Tables
Jul 08: Don't pay for that download manager, silly boy!
Jun 30: Side Scrolling in Adobe – keep your hands on the keyboard
Jun 30: Speedy and Secure AFP
Jun 15: Temporary Puppycam
Jun 11: Potato Recipe
Jun 08: My, what a big tongue you have
Jun 06: Vintage Racing Pics
Jun 05: 6 years and counting
May 13: Puppies on the porch
Apr 15: Oh, crap. No wonder I've been feeling neglected…
Apr 14: Ajaxy goodness and Safari form behavior
Mar 28: Tabular image layouts in print and on the web
Mar 11: Watch Those Teeth!
Mar 06: MySQL Class Updated for PHP 5 part 1
Mar 01: Time is not on my side
Feb 20: Porsche Illustration
Feb 18: Hawai'i Is Beautiful
Feb 02: Well, that was easy…
Jan 22: Traveling Again – need recommendations
Jan 19: A simple email couldn't have hurt…
Jan 05: Nokia Cellphone Wallpaper Format
Jan 02: Bash me a PDF

2005

Dec 23: It just wouldn't be christmas without…
Dec 22: The Benefits of Working Early
Dec 15: Beaker!
Dec 07: HTML Formatting with TextEdit
Nov 17: Alternate Syntax for PHP Control Structures
Nov 14: Racing Photos
Nov 09: Blog? I have a blog?
Oct 20: Speedier Spotlight searches and exact matches
Oct 17: Camera Toss
Oct 17: It has been a while
Oct 01: Serenity Rocks
Sep 24: Keep that shadow!
Sep 23: Star Streaks Photo
Sep 23: Colorado Avalanche Schedule in iCal
Sep 18: Yearg!
Sep 15: Line In Passthrough in OS X
Sep 14: Gravatars Enabled
Sep 12: MySQL Class Updated
Sep 11: Text editors galore
Sep 11: Gippy Pages turns 1 year old…
Sep 05: Holy crap I need some motivation
Sep 01: Abandoned Car Photo
Aug 30: No More Carpooling
Aug 26: Making fun of a 4 year old
Aug 22: This week is gonna suck
Aug 21: Going to start posting images
Aug 17: I'll not make that mistake again
Aug 09: What's wrong with this picture?
Aug 07: Browser Stats
Aug 03: Is it really that mighty?
Aug 03: RSS Snafu Fixed
Aug 02: Getting to know vim
Jul 28: IE 7: this is a little disappointing
Jul 28: That's just embarrassing
Jul 26: Gippy Pages = top-frog
Jul 23: A couple of Firefox fixes
Jul 21: Fire Up Firefox
Jul 18: A Moose once bit my sister…
Jul 15: Training dogs, training humans
Jul 14: Isn't she lovely?
Jul 13: Basic Emailer Class
Jul 11: The fcXHTML Widget is Live!
Jul 11: Preparing for fully compliant XHTML
Jul 10: Another baton? What will they think of next?
Jul 09: Darn that DynDns…
Jun 30: On Vacation
Jun 26: Converting Color Images to Grayscale
Jun 25: A couple of Recipes
Jun 24: MySQL Abstraction update…
Jun 22: Site Search Added
Jun 21: More gettin' my OOP on: Aggregation
Jun 17: My MySQL Abstraction Class
Jun 15: I've got it, now what the hell am I gonna do with it?
Jun 11: Just what is a half question?
Jun 09: Do you tip for take-out food?
Jun 06: Holy crap!
Jun 05: Mozilla 1.1 Alpha Available
Jun 05: The order of things
Jun 04: I don't believe it
Jun 04: Searching for the perfect proofing solution
Jun 03: Let's hear it for scripting!
May 29: Closer still
May 28: NHL is shooting itself
May 28: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat…
May 26: Temporary Email Addresses
May 23: Taking one for the team
May 19: That there musical baton thingy-ma-bob
May 13: Let the voices speak
May 12: Those Pesky Icon Files
May 10: Might as well face it I'm addicted to blog
May 10: Busy busy busy…
May 01: Command line goodness
Apr 26: South Park Shawn
Apr 25: Giving Photoshop Two Fingers
Apr 23: My first OOP
Apr 22: Tom needs comments on his site
Apr 21: Tuna Dogs
Apr 21: I guess I learned it wrong
Apr 21: Passing by Reference
Apr 19: New Pope
Apr 18: Humans 3, mice 0
Apr 09: Seeking Book Suggestions
Apr 06: Minor Site Update
Mar 30: The Good News Is
Mar 28: Site Housekeeping
Mar 28: Pre-Order your Tiger
Mar 26: Puddlemonkey is online!
Mar 26: Just Do It as a coding practice
Mar 22: MySQL Administrator now on OS X
Mar 21: Server Upgrade
Mar 21: Meyer on IE7
Mar 18: Spoiled on Gentoo
Mar 17: How far should you go?
Mar 16: Collaborating with ease
Mar 10: Microsoft solicits for bugs
Mar 07: Why blog?
Mar 04: Making life easier with exec
Mar 03: Pimp my site
Mar 02: MultiViews – is it that hard?
Feb 28: Stupid people means free iPods
Feb 27: Clearing Floats is easy?
Feb 27: Netflix is evil
Feb 24: Get it while its hot!
Feb 20: Note to self
Feb 16: Now Taking Bets
Feb 15: An Official Gippy Endorsement
Feb 11: Is Gippy a corporate geek?
Feb 06: Eastwood Philosophy
Feb 06: New, New and New
Jan 30: Damn Dictionaries
Jan 29: For now he stays…
Jan 26: Regex
Jan 25: Holy fried brain, Batman!
Jan 12: Ploddin' along
Jan 01: The decision has been made

2004

Dec 21: DORK!
Dec 20: Transition Time
Dec 16: Everybody should have one
Dec 07: Humans 1; Mouse 0
Dec 06: The future of PuppyCam
Dec 06: More style – less continuity
Dec 02: The Suspense is Killing Me
Dec 02: My wife is a dork
Nov 29: um, what the fuck?
Nov 24: Here ya go Joel
Nov 23: This is one to follow
Nov 23: That was quick…
Nov 21: That's why I keep doing it…
Nov 20: This is why I stopped
Nov 18: Still the best
Nov 18: System upgrade
Nov 11: Florida Appeals Court to FOX News: It is OK to lie!
Nov 09: It's here…
Nov 04: Bronchitis Again
Nov 01: Go out and vote!
Nov 01: Facelift
Oct 24: Even more progress
Oct 18: Voting my conscience
Sep 26: Getting closer still…
Sep 22: Almost usable
Sep 20: PuppyCam is back!
Sep 18: Moving along slowly…
Sep 15: Just when I thought I was on top of things…
Sep 13: Progress…
Sep 12: I feel so dirty