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My name is Daniel Howard. I grew up in Chicago, and I live in
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Mountain View Sunnyvale, CA. I was born in 1976:
the year of the American Bicentennial. I have a Bachelor's degree in
English Rhetoric, but I make my living as a Systems Administrator.
I enjoy writing, and I started publishing on the web in 1995, and an online journal in 1996. I will introduce you further on the Welcome page, or you can start exploring on your own . . .
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Recently Posted
The Economist: notes on “Free Parking”
Notes from a great article in the Economist on the hidden costs of free parking.
Ganeti: Segregate VMs from Running on the Same Hardware
By using exclusion tags, it is easy to convince ganeti to run instances of the same type on different nodes.
I have a roll of gaffer tape on my desk.
A Complex Cron Entry Explained
A crontab entry I felt worth explanation, as it illustrates a few Unix concepts.
If my Google phone ever requires me to reinstall it to factory defaults through Picasa, I’ll totally be open minded about switching to iPhone.
US May Soon Allow High Speed Trains
Proposed US safety rules would permit lighter, faster trains that meet European safety standards to run at speeds of up to 220 MPH.
Tool for Generating Isochrones: Mapzen Mobility Explorer
Mapzen has a new tool, Mobility Explorer, which can generate isochrones for walking, biking, driving, and transit.
Recently Twitterated
TODO: Maybe include recent comments and / or popular posts . . . Flickr? Yelp?
