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2026

  1. So I Built (Another) Woodshed
  2. 60 Miles
  3. Books: Spring 2026
  4. My 2025 in Pictures

2025

  1. Books: Winter 2025
  2. Walking Hurt
  3. My 2024 in Pictures

2024

  1. I Have Squandered My Days With Plans of Many Things
  2. How to Chemically Treat a Goodland Hot Tub
  3. My 2023 in Pictures
  4. We Bought a Wood Fired Hot Tub

2023

  1. 50 Miles
  2. Rebuilding the Basement
  3. My 2022 in Pictures

2022

  1. The Gear Guide for Walking
  2. Even More Walking Questions
  3. Twitter, Mastodon and the Fediverse: I Have Questions
  4. Walking, Weight Loss and Diet: Frequently Asked Questions
  5. I Have Squandered My Days With Plans of Many Things
  6. Why I Set Up a Family Dashboard
  7. The SOG Diet
  8. Saying Goodbye
  9. Why I Walk and Why You Might Want to Walk Too
  10. Remembering My Dad
  11. My 2021 in Pictures

2021

  1. The Reboot
  2. 543 Days
  3. Goodbye to All That
  4. 10 Things I Learned from My Dad
  5. My 2020 in Pictures

2020

  1. So We Moved
  2. How to Build a Wheelchair Ramp (During a Pandemic)
  3. Like Guac? This Will Change Your Life
  4. My 2019 in Pictures

2019

  1. What Even is a Jeep Gladiator?
  2. How to Tell a Bedtime Story
  3. RIP Doug Wilkins
  4. Five Travel Mistakes I Never Should Have Made
  5. Are Battery Powered Chainsaws Ready? The EGO CS1600
  6. My 2018 in Pictures

2018

  1. Sorry JetBlue, But You Blew It
  2. Old Movies
  3. Our New Network Solution: An Amplifi Review
  4. What's the Deal With YouTube TV?
  5. So You're Thinking About Using Sears For Service
  6. Ten Podcasts You Might Not Have Heard
  7. How to Make an End Grain Cutting Board
  8. My 2017 in Pictures

2017

  1. So You're Going to Have a Kid
  2. I Have Squandered My Days With Plans of Many Things
  3. Everything You Need to Know About Firewood: The Q&A
  4. Books: Summer 2017
  5. My 2016 in Pictures

2016

  1. If Destruction Be Our Lot
  2. Things To Know About Closet Organizers
  3. I Have Squandered My Days With Plans of Many Things
  4. How to Build a Table from Used Pallets
  5. About the Truck
  6. How Did Our Heating Upgrades Pan Out?
  7. My 2015 in Pictures

2015

  1. How We Leased a New Car Without Setting Foot in the Dealership
  2. November 30
  3. Books: Fall 2015
  4. The News
  5. I Have Squandered My Days With Plans of Many Things
  6. How to Build a Woodshed
  7. Three Days in Dublin
  8. Blue About JetBlue
  9. Goodbye, Penryn Way
  10. How to Use an Electrical Pump to Make Homebrewing Easier
  11. My 2014 in Pictures

2014

  1. Books: Fall 2014
  2. How to Build a French Drain
  3. 35 Things That Make Travel Suck Less
  4. The Problem With Heat Pumps (Or Why We Won't Buy One Yet)
  5. A Year of Steps
  6. I Remember Books
  7. My Trip to Europe in Pictures
  8. My 2013 in Pictures

2013

  1. Becoming a Sonos Household
  2. So You Want to Buy a Kegerator: The Q&A
  3. What I Did On My Summer Vacation
  4. Home of the Not Quite So Brave
  5. So We Bought a House
  6. Three Technologies That Impacted Me Day to Day in 2012
  7. On Beer Hotels

2012

  1. Oxbowzakaya!
  2. red sky
  3. boston fall
  4. double rainbow
  5. Williams v Amherst 2012
  6. double the garbage
  7. My SquareTrade Experience
  8. Question 1
  9. do you know what time it is?
  10. afternoon on the roof deck
  11. everything good said about this place is true
  12. too bad i'm not an Orioles fan
  13. 16th floor:
  14. is this the last Purple Pub pitcher left in the world?:
  15. greetings from (real) Portland:
  16. must be 4:30 on Friday:
  17. Things the Williams Freshmen Should Know
  18. How to Build Your Own Personal Netflix
  19. half mast:
  20. because Maine:
  21. this kind of home improvement project, i can get into:
  22. warming it up for Boothbay Craft Beerfest:
  23. now on tap at the O'Grady household, through next weekend:
  24. this Fourth of July is brought to you by @oxbowbeer:
  25. about as much fun as you can have for $19:
  26. every hat i wear came from the same place:
  27. it's a hard knock life for us:
  28. one of our neighborhood food options:
  29. if you know a better reward for stump pulling and brush hauling, sing out:
  30. pay no attention to the cat behind the curtain:
  31. at the Yotel, the view is better than the bed:
  32. current status:
  33. i need a drinking jar:
  34. Acadia:
  35. and all of the island's restaurants are back online:
  36. world's best wiffle venue?:
  37. the conference next to mine. coincidence or providence?
  38. good morning Lake Michigan:
  39. i see a stack of towels. she sees a bed:
  40. the cornerstone of my mosquito population control effort:
  41. T5
  42. early spring:
  43. phippsburg:
  44. farewells
  45. current status:
  46. currently pouring at the O'Grady Compound:
  47. it may be 44 degrees, foggy and drizzling, but the boat's in the water:
  48. after the Boston meetings:
  49. this way
  50. How I Rebuilt Our Entertainment System Using Plex and Roku
  51. the calm before the attack
  52. the Four Seasons in Austin says hi:
  53. what, you hadn't heard about @oxbowbeer's new product line?:
  54. Instagram, 18 April 2012
  55. Instagram, 17 April 2012
  56. aka heaven:
  57. today was a good day:
  58. things that happen while i'm at airports:
  59. When you get in after midnight this matters
  60. making my sad face:
  61. hello there, Manhattan
  62. my experimental, prototype solution for drinking craft beer in the shower:
  63. today's car repair day. somewhere, @chrisblizzard is laughing:
  64. and now I feel old:
  65. it's a beautiful sight:
  66. opening day, 2012
  67. Leaving Flickr

2011

  1. Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair
  2. Michael Crichton: Travels
  3. This Was My Grandfather's Philosophy As Well
  4. Is Education a Bubble?
  5. Ken Tremendous Speaks for Me
  6. My New Wall Paper
  7. This Seems Crazy, Now
  8. Bless Chad Finn, AKA The Voice of Reason
  9. On Marginal Advantage and Game Theory
  10. ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS
  11. ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS
  12. A Good Lesson. From Sailing, No Less.
  13. President Obama: Washington Has to Live within its Means | The White House
  14. "Of Penis Panics, Cannibalistic Spirits and Dancing Manias"
  15. New York City photos by Charles W. Cushman reveal 1940s life in the Big Apple | Mail Online
  16. "best available" is more useful when seats aren't $650 per
  17. this is why people won't fly with me:
  18. RedMonk Analytics' developer browser usage trending, YTD:
  19. getting multiple reports that + isn't actually open, but when i hit it in Incognito mode, i get this now. do you?:
  20. i don't like the look of this:
  21. How to Load 10,679 Songs Into Google Music in 2 Days Using AWS & Dropbox
  22. current status:
  23. view from tonight's dinner venue (@greyhavensinn):
  24. is there a higher honor that Twitter deciding that you're similar to @bradfordcross?:
  25. this seat cost $9:
  26. current status:
  27. the most important innovation in lawnmower technology since the goat. patent(s) pending:
  28. couldn't pick a better beer to celebrate with on a day like this than Daymark:
  29. this is first time i've had to evacuate a hotel at 3 AM:
  30. how i spent my first night of vacation:
  31. this week, when i'm getting buried at work? transcendent. the weather next week, when i take some much needed R&R?:
  32. maybe it goes without saying, but my participation in the webinar tomorrow assumes i don't get blown away by this:
  33. current status:
  34. current status:
  35. i have to confess: i never thought my cat would become a gamer:
  36. i'm suddenly much less confident of making my train home:
  37. the Canonical folks certainly have a nice view of London:
  38. the next nine hours are going to be awesome:
  39. today was a good day:
  40. it came back, so i came back:
  41. people do love them some Google I/O:
  42. if you're here, do say hi:
  43. looks like i made it through one more winter:
  44. current status:
  45. MLB.tv Per Game Bandwidth and Mobile Data Pricing:
  46. A Partial List of Things I've Read on the Android Kindle App for Free:
  47. how i survive on the road:
  48. current status:
  49. current status:
  50. first sticker on the tablet:
  51. current status:
  52. the lesson? cats do not help make beds:
  53. i, for one, welcome our new spring overlord:
  54. i'm nerdy enough to be legitimately excited about this:
  55. remember when it was the first day of spring and there was no snow on the ground? me too:
  56. The trouble with the news is that everybody knows everything too fast and too often and too many times...
  57. what you get when you click on the Flash 10.2 listing on market.android.com:
  58. this is why you marry a girl with an Irish passport:
  59. crunching numbers on language framework traction on Hacker News by month. here's #nodejs and #rails:
  60. the MLB.tv free preview is a cruel reminder of what the service could be w/o MLB's absurd blackout restrictions:
  61. my day, in a nutshell (somewhere, @monkchips is thinking of Mike Myers):
  62. if you filled your house with smoke that was 90% elemental sulphur, you would get the stink out how?:
  63. sog and the Kingdom of the Crystal Trees:
  64. digging the new @lanyrd extension for @twitter:
  65. as a follow up on yesterday's look at how post wordcount affects pageviews, here's its relationship to reading time:
  66. the log transform of the pageviews by postlength data shows a slight positive slope, but the relationship is weak:
  67. RedMonk Analytics' mobile platform trending, Jan 1 to present:
  68. decent view from the lobby:
  69. i seriously just did a boxplot of mine and @coreygilmore's Gin scores from last weekend in R:
  70. Our Fairpoint DSL Tale of Woe
  71. today's big accomplishment:
  72. start the clock: i now have 14 days to decide if a tablet works for me:
  73. one output of said jobs - Operating System Mentions on Hacker News...By Year:
  74. what happens when NetFlix Watch Instantly meets unlimited 3G:
  75. current status:
  76. What Went Wrong On Our Trip to Europe and What You Can Learn From It
  77. perhaps the most important Belgian achievement unlocked:
  78. current status:
  79. Belgium says hi:
  80. looking for me at Strata? find this:
  81. sunset from Orlando:
  82. "hey! done working yet?":
  83. how cold is it? that's salt water you're looking at. frozen salt water:
  84. it's what we in the business know as "not warm":
  85. my storm and i just got to Boston:
  86. it's pretty where we live:
  87. way to show some hustle, Poseidon:
  88. nothing quite like watching storms come down the cove, twenty feet away:

2010

  1. if you know a better way to enjoy a blizzard than @allagashbeer's Curieux, please share:
  2. @myfairpoint: this is our DSL speed (3 mbps account); techs have already been out twice. can you help?:
  3. one way to ensure your Christmas will be Merry:
  4. we're just that important:
  5. three different people told me today this was their favorite slide from the RedMonk Analytics deck:
  6. My reply from Congresswoman Chellie Pingree on the New TSA Policies:
  7. Trains vs Planes, with numbers:
  8. so a Linux player does support Android: excellent news. thanks for the Banshee tip, @gabaug:
  9. the first, and presumably last, time i'm on Twitter's home page with @justinbieber and @ConanOBrien:
  10. My Reply from Senator Susan Collins on the New TSA Policies:
  11. checking out Google's Refine data cleansing tool using, what else: MLB transaction data:
  12. my letter to my congresswoman. did i forget anything?:
  13. i dub thee Gigantus:
  14. there are places i'm less excited to visit, but not many:
  15. bunch of poptech types on my flight out of PWM:
  16. after the day we haul the boat, the next saddest occasion: dock haul:
  17. Dear NY Hilton: is this a joke? $100 a day wifi? I'll just use my AT&T card then, shall I?:
  18. always a sad day for me. till spring, Emily:
  19. fall sunsets are here:
  20. how to spend your fall day:
  21. when in Baltimore...:
  22. if you're traveling today - or just live in Baltimore - i am sorry:
  23. in case you were wondering where i was sitting:
  24. there's a bar on the roof? why wasn't i told?:
  25. tough to see how you'd do better on a September Saturday in Maine:
  26. to be honest, i like our boat better without the tree under it:
  27. 2 AM is looking to be what we in the business know as suboptimal (via @stormpulse):
  28. bye Nantucket. sorry about the hurricane:
  29. yes, this was easily one of the cooler things we've done:
  30. it's not every day you get to four wheel yourself down the beach to a lighthouse:
  31. they start them early at the Cisco brewery:
  32. Nantucket, ho:
  33. kidnapped by chinese lantern building pirates. send help:
  34. sometimes, i wish my friends drank less:
  35. this graph of US income growth looks nothing like the one i would have drawn (via Google Public Data Explorer):
  36. yet another reason it's good to live in Maine:
  37. my godson's first birthday cake. yeah, my mom is talented:
  38. old iPods are comically large next to today's gear:
  39. haven't seen this in a while
  40. we have some HILARIOUS childhood pictures assembled for the wedding. e.g. my brother and i:
  41. someone better bring one of these to this weekend's festivities:
  42. twilight, of the non-vampire kind:
  43. life is better in Maine:
  44. after:
  45. before:
  46. first morning all week I didn't have to be up at 7. so of course this rolled in. at 7:
  47. my unpacking help:
  48. the venue:
  49. 11 hours into Memorial Day weekend we're already down one car:
  50. first night at the Osprey. welcome back, summer:
  51. getting the holiday weekend started off sog-style:
  52. movers or no movers, I earned this:
  53. no one knows better than a Linux user that Flash has its issues, but c'mon - MLB At Bat is just incredible:
  54. bad news from Sprint. those gray and white areas? yeah, it's where i live:
  55. if only it wasn't Sprint:
  56. one of the two lines for the free phones at Google I/O:
  57. I'm here. the question is, where are you?:
  58. games you play while moving. which aren't fun:
  59. my enemies have conceived the perfect weapon with which to destroy me:
  60. why am i false, Twitter? you know that's hurtful, right?:
  61. oh snap:
  62. first time I've seen paratroopers at Fenway. or anywhere else, actually:
  63. as bad as this month is going to be, this makes up for it:
  64. if you're in #portlandME and wondering why the power is out, it's this. massive fire at Jordan Meats building:
  65. I swear I don't know why Last.fm recommended this to me:
  66. anybody need a 13" laptop sleeve? not sure why, but the kind folks from Harvard Technology Group sent me a second:
  67. note to self - wear shorts tomorrow:
  68. walked up 10 minutes before gametime and got this seat:
  69. it's always nice when you meet one of your heroes and they not only meet, but wildly exceed your expectations:
  70. truth in advertising:
  71. guess which days I'm traveling this week:
  72. when I'm here, we win. just sayin':
  73. i can't imagine how Gmail could do a poorer job of advertising to me than this. especially today:
  74. 1989? seriously? i am one hundred years old:
  75. you have seven hours to prepare for me, California. wait, what? seven?:
  76. continuing my campaign for my own @flightcaster algorithm: "probably on time," but scheduled departure was 2:30:
  77. best. charity auction. ever:
  78. Easter Sunday and I'm at my church:
  79. not that I mind this time, given that the Sox are on:
  80. I thought Az had the best job in the world, working at RedMonk. but she can't beat distillery cat:
  81. my first distllery:
  82. the inevitable, regrettable outcome of all of the Red Sox beat writers Twittering:
  83. it's not spring until you light a bunch of things on fire:
  84. wait, RedMonk HQ has a deck? WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED?
  85. that's it, I'm calling our dock guy tomorrow:
  86. bets as to whether or not we lose power again?:
  87. how I wish this were true:
  88. want to get me to eat almonds? put them on top of raw tuna:
  89. what's better than old trains?:
  90. shortcut the Cloudera install on the new machine, spun their image up in VirtualBox instead. it's what the box is for:
  91. for those few not yet convinced I'm a massive dork...it's midterm time:
  92. i would do terrible things in exchange for access to Bloomberg's Professional baseball tool:
  93. can't even get into the room where @robneyer is moderating a panel on baseball analytics. should have driven down:
  94. no more being held back by shitty hardware. the most powerful box I've had since my mainframe days just arrived:
  95. gotta hand it to them: the iphone support on linux is coming along:
  96. are multiple power trucks a good sign or bad sign?
  97. Tableau Public on IE7
  98. "motion activated" is just another way of saying "hit me":
  99. the best beer bar in America really is the best beer bar in America:
  100. remind me about this in three months:
  101. this cost me three hours today:
  102. ice bar:
  103. the new Google Voice UI just got rolled out to me:
  104. turns out fifty mile an hour winds aren't great for power lines. hello, 19th century:
  105. if this isn't a sign of spring I don't know what is:
  106. @girltuesday: maybe this will convince you otherwise:
  107. because I've been waiting all winter for a good snowfall, this is what happens the days I'm away:
  108. when did Google add the real time, scrolling Twitter results?:
  109. what we're missing:
  110. who's up for a swim?:
  111. fired up for my Boston Ork poster. courtesy of the Lawyer, of course:

2009

  1. I think Az is enjoying her Christmas:
  2. happiness is:
  3. it's that kind of a morning here:
  4. so I guess it's a down jacket kind of morning:
  5. relearning algebra:
  6. I'm home:
  7. if I sit close enough, I don't have to wear my jacket here in the office (bless my neighbor for sharing):
  8. the day the dock is hauled is a sad one for all of us. me, especially:
  9. the next great pitcher for the Red Sox (my godson):
  10. 22 hours in Vegas, starting 10 minutes ago:
  11. c'mon - it's funny that I was sitting in one of these:
  12. first I lost the Red Sox, today the Emily Alan goes into storage. when is it spring again?:
  13. man, I just don't have good luck with filesystems this week:
  14. Leslie Nielsen just walked in and told me good luck, that everyone's counting on me. GO SOX: