This is a small variation on the original Blendtec recipe that comes out more like a milkshake instead of chocolate milk. It tastes more nutty than a regular chocolate shake, but it’s not bad on a hot day.

I recently had a conversion about how secure a 16-character password really is against a highly-financed attacker (e.g. the NSA). Getting a realistic answer turns out to be more complicated than just dividing passwords by tries/second. Let’s work through some ideas:

First, the choice of alphabet. People …

After my previous complaint about Motherhood’s shipping and returns policies, I wondered if maybe I was being unfair. Perhaps I’ve been spoiled by Amazon Prime and Zappos into thinking that shipping and returns are always free and simple. I decided to go look up the policies for a …

I recently tried to buy my wife a maternity swimsuit from Motherhood Maternity. My first inkling that this wasn’t going to be an ideal experience was when there was a $6 shipping charge on a $30 swimsuit. I’m used to getting free shipping on almost everything from places …

I’ve been enjoying the benefits of using Pelican for this blog for about a year now. Aside from the minimal resource usage and dead-simple webserver configuration, it has been fantastic to not have security updates to worry about

However, one feature that is missing compared to the typical database-driven …

2015 was an exciting year, but I realized I didn’t write any of it down. It’s a bit late for a New Year’s resolution, but I think it’s time to try for more frequent updates. For the rest of 2016, I hope to post an entry …

These tostadas are simple, but delicious. They are gluten free and easily made vegan or soy-free.

These lattes are inspired by the similarly named drink from Flying Star. Not quite a mocha, but a little richer than a regular latte.

Gnocchi always goes well with a cream sauce. In this version, the added vegetables create some wonderful extra flavor (especially the green chile). The sauce will come out quite thick if you follow the proportions given; add a little extra milk if you prefer a runnier sauce.

When I started this blog in 2009, I wasn’t entirely sure what I needed in a blogging platform. I ended up picking Movable Type for a couple of reasons: It was open source and ran on things I was familiar with (perl and PostgreSQL). It also had a lot …