http://char1es.net Nathan's musings Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:47:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One thing I've noticed since moving to Durham is that young adults in this area is pretty transitory.   This might not be anything geographically unique, but  we come for a couple years go to grad school and then move on.  I first spent extended time in Durham in the Summers of 2001 ... http://char1es.net/2008/08/17/113/ , originally uploaded by Nathan.Charles. I put up some photos from my trip to Europe on Flickr. Berlin -> Geneva -> Milan -> Italian Lake District -> Lyon -> Taize -> Paris. All in all quite a nice trip. http://char1es.net/2008/07/11/city-of-lights/ As I sit here in front of my computer, I hear my roommate in the other room talking to his Xbox 360.  He's actually playing in a multi-player online game and communicating with people via the in game voice chat.  I think it's Halo 3 but the actual game he's ... http://char1es.net/2008/05/20/what-it-can-learn-from-video-games/ Finished, originally uploaded by Nathan.Charles. The Bamboo Bike is finally ridable. I won't say done because I think there is still some more work I want to do, but I rode it today. It rides really nice. I don't know if that's surprising or not. I've ... http://char1es.net/2008/05/01/ridable-bamboo-bike/ Scruff, originally uploaded by Nathan.Charles. David, Mark, Pat and myself went backing at Linville Gorge over the weekend. It was the first time I've been out in a while so it felt really good. It was rainy and cold but we were fortunate that it only rained when when ... http://char1es.net/2008/04/03/linville-gorge/ Bamboo Bike Frame, originally uploaded by Nathan.Charles. I've been working on this frame off and on since August. I finally got it ready to build up a few days ago. It's not the prettiest frame in the world. But I made it, it's bamboo, and that's cool. This afternoon I ... http://char1es.net/2008/03/15/bamboo-bike-frame/ Once upon a time there was an operating system philosophy called Unix. Unix was the operating system of all the good people at universities and colleges. If you wanted to a use a computer at school there was only one computer to use, a Unix machine, ... http://char1es.net/2008/03/09/twitter-is-the-new-finger-a-bedtime-story-for-little-hackers/ So this thing called blogging, it turns out I often don't like to write these short essays but infrequently. Eric said he thinks that between he and Kyle they have the "most prolific blogging family". Well then between Derrick and myself I think we have more inactive websites ... http://char1es.net/2008/02/19/rebirth-or-maybe-just-a-work-in-progress/ "I know that development, it was Durham's experiment in Urban Sprawl" was what someone told me who did some work on my house. The development I live was built in middle of nowhere on the farmland just off of I-40 at the end of the 70's. 30 years ... http://char1es.net/2008/01/21/44b-tingen-ct-or-some-of-the-problems-with-private-streets/ Mac using Anders wanted to dump something on my laptop running Ubuntu. He suggested dropcopy but there wasn’t a server for linux. Turns out the drop copy protocol is pretty basic and it wasn’t too difficult to write a server in perl. This could be integrated into avahi ... http://char1es.net/2007/10/09/dropdpl/