Bear Flag Blog

Say, this thing appears to still be on! Two years since my last post... Seems like a good semi-public, semi-permanent place to record my latest prophetic dream. As mentioned elsewhere, I occasionally see the future. Don't get excited, it's not ter… more »

"TomTom admits to sending your routes and speed information to the police". Well, if I'm ever in the market for a GPS, no way in Hell I'm buying from them. Sure it's a sensationalist headline, but the underlying information is that TomTom will hand o… more »

I finally changed the security protocol of our home wireless network over to WPA2. I have known that I should do so for years, but of course changing every device on the network would have taken like twenty minutes of work, and I am, in fact, that lazy.… more »

Yesterday evening I was on the deck, putting meat on the grill. The boys were running around in the backyard; I had just leaned over to check on them before I started to put the meat on. Then E. starts screaming. As my wife points out, E. has only… more »

I've uploaded our Italy trip pictures - with captions even! - to republic's photo gallery: http://www.republic.org/gallery2/main.php It's password protected: the username is my first name, and the password is my wife's first name. I figure if you… more »