Technical.ly Philly Profile
Technical.ly Philly published a wonderful profile about me as part of their series about accessibility. The article pretty much speaks for itself. My eyes hu...
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Replacing AirPlay with the Raspberry Pi
A number of years ago I decided to use AirPlay to stream audio through my condo. I picked the best solution for the time but had issues since day one. For a ...
My New Blog
“That which has been spoiled through neglect can be rejuvenated through effort.” - I Ching
Back to my Open Source Roots
So much has happened, I hardly know where to begin. I haven’t written any articles in a while and have pretty much stayed off social media, except for an occ...
Taking a Byte of the Raspberry Pi
I became excited about the Raspberry Pi as soon as I heard about it. I had no idea if a blind person could even put one together, but I ordered one anyway. I...
How to Make MPD work with AirPlay
As I wrote last night, AirPlay rules! As I have written previously, iTunes does not. It has always seemed like a bloated program to me. I far prefer the M...
How to Share Files between Mac and Linux the Easy Way
When I upgraded to Mac OS X Lion, I discovered that Apple unceremoniously removed FTP as a file sharing option. I understood why – FTP has little (if any) se...
The Attack of the Valentine’s Day Tomato
I previously detailed my purchase of the Asus RT-N16 router, on which I put DDWRT. At the time, that seemed like the right choice, but recently I have had re...
A Trip to the Mac App Store
Today, Apple released Mac OS 10.6.6, which adds the Mac App Store. I wanted to give a sneak peak, especially from an accessibility point of view. I also want...
My Awesome New Router and Firmware
I find it ironic that after bashing an inferior phone company and praising Verizon in my previous article, that I should now rail on them a little. This conc...
Summer Shines in the Winter
I have done it! I have gotten Linux installed on my Netbook. Specifically, I used Arch Linux for the Blind. Coming from Slackware, it made a good choice, sin...
Back in Slack!
I write this from a barely configured system. I sincerely hope I don’t need to reinstall it, but we shall see. I wanted to document what happened, in case so...
Moving to a New Machine
The time has finally come. I got my Windows computer redone with all new hardware. I thought I’d gradually get my other two Linux machines redone, and contin...