28 was a good year. It was the year I saw Japan and Hawaii for the first time. Bought a house, sold a house, moved in and broke up with someone. Became a manager and helped build a huge software project from the ground up. Took a hundreds of photos, learned to cook better. Went to more rock shows, learned to appreciate bluegrass. Adopted a puppy. Slept on a plane for the first time in decades. Blogged more. Gave up on brakes and learned to skid. Introspected. Hiked to the top of a mountain, bought a mountain bike and did the Turkey Ride. Scored 400 in a game of Scrabble. Took more chances. Learned to do nothing. Didn’t snowboard once, but OK with that. 29 will be better.

We made a higher grade.

This post made in the daily Comet meeting.

WiFi wins loses.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.

Every morning around 7 or so, I take Pista for a walk around SOMA. Sometimes through downtown to Market Street and up to the Ferry Building, down past the Bay Bridge on the Embarcadero.

Between the crowds, the homeless, the architecture, traffic and sunrise, it makes some pretty interesting imagery.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.

Along with Artur, Ben & Mena and Andrew, and about a million other people who bought that first truckload at the Apple Store, I acquired my first piece of Apple hardware in 7 years (the last was a creaky 350mhz blue & white G3).

Brought it home, and immediately fell in love with Front Row. It really is usable as a media center, and aside from my main gripe about not being able to access videos on iTunes shares from my other machines, it’s near-perfect in its (rather simple) implementation.

So mucking around with the System Preferences panel, I came across the RSS screensaver module. Hm. After authenticating, I grabbed my Comet friends & family feed and saved it as an RSS bookmark in Safari.

To my surprise, not only did it work flawlessly, but it remembered the authentication cookie. So now whenever my Mac is idle, my living room shines with the most recent posts from my friends & family.

This is a beautiful thing.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.

Fort Funston is dog heaven. Every dog (all 100 of them at any given time, any day of the week) are off leash. The beach provides a pretty good set of natural barriers (one cliff, one ocean) and puppies just love to run into the waves.

It was low tide, but the waves were pretty high due to the wind and incoming storm. Pista had lots of fun…

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.

Chair This post was created with the rocking new mail gateway.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.

I’ve been a fan of the Ortofon Concorde headshell/styli for quite a while. It inspired a flyer for a club night I was promoting a few years ago at the now defunct Sno-Drift club.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.

Talking with Beau whose other thing has a truly righteous logo this morning, I looked down and did a double-take.

When did Ted (of BAGeL Radio fame) write a cookbook? I knew his tastes skewed good in music, but baking too?

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