June 2013
1 Phone Companies Confused About The Future
May 2013
27 I’m Blogging This Blog To My Blog
April 2013
20 Justin Bieber is a Robot
March 2013
31 The Blog’s Not Dead Yet
February 2013
28 A Post for February, 2013
January 2013
21 Unfollowing / Unfriending Form Letter
4 time
December 2012
12 Pendulum
7 The Ultimate Answer
4 Four Seasons
November 2012
29 Steddy Freddy, Part Two
27 The Chickadee Cottage Cafe
24 ‘This was a bit metaphysical, even for me…’
21 Free Business Idea: Combination Car/Submarine Wash
15 Not Paranoid At All
14 Mr. Turtle’s Reading of ‘Little Wing,’ et. al.
13 Strangely, Writing About Writing
12 Men’s Room Logistical Considerations
11 What Do People Want?
10 Something for Today
9 Brule River
8 Steddy Freddy
7 less outrage
6 Election Day Cat Blogging
5 Pouring a River
4 At the Old General Store
3 Charles Station
2 An Open Letter to My Interventionists
1 Demon Gin
October 2012
31 Hiding
30 Pen and Paper
29 Out and About
28 Just the Words
27 Apocalyptic Reading Expectations
26 Reality Is Make Believe
25 The Okay Red Spot
24 Tales from the Slush Pile
23 The Crab Nebula Experience
22 Do you remember paper books?
21 Tree Week
20 It Has To Be
19 Once in a Bleau Road Trip
18 Into the Wild Enough
17 small
16 ATM
15 Top Down
14 Another 300 Words (And Then Some)
13 Delivering Papers and Evading Justice
12 Uploaded
11 196 Essential Steps for Getting to the Top
10 Leper Travel Services
9 Freeloading
8 Electric Man
7 a snack
6 it is easy and interesting
5 Processing
3 I wanna pop
2 Bleh
1 Meh-diocrity
September 2012
29 National (Hide Out) Night Out
27 May I ask who’s calling?
26 Some Previously Unpublished Tweets
24 Re: Beheaded Chickens
22 Next Frog!
20 “Fuck You Money”
18 This is a Warning for the Post After This One
17 The Music Wouldn’t Play
13 Moodles and Bilge
10 May I offer you a tip?
3 Could this be the end?
2 Let Us Pray
August 2012
31 Links: Star Wars Script Reviews
28 Penelope Trunk: Take more advice. It will help you.
25 Now With Advanced Whitening Agent
18 Dragonfly
5 Believe
July 2012
26 It’s a Metal Chicken
18 The Business of Banshees
June 2012
13 The Monster
11 Another Dam Post
8 We’re Living In The Future
6 Walking through the woods the other day…
5 Everything is broken, and no one knows why
4 Falling
3 For the Birds
2 Causing me to look up ‘Epicureanism’
May 2012
27 Hey! Wanna Ride a Bike?!
20 My, What A Nice Stereo You Have, Sir. Kudos.
April 2012
30 One-week-old Praying Mantis
29 I, Lucifer: It’s a Dirty Job But Somebody’s Got To Do It
28 Not About Lawn Care
11 Ryan Montbleau: Heartbreak Road
March 2012
31 Hooked
17 KLO Post
11 Eight Days of a New Habit
6 I Don’t Want to Make a Habit of This
2 It’s Like a Dream Come True
February 2012
29 Leap Post II
26 Amazorg… Borgazon…
21 Silencing the Rage
18 Ohhoog @ Ten Weeks
13 Art is Infection
11 Moving the Procrastination Down the Page
9 Putting Procrastination To Work
8 I’m Sure
7 Personal Day
6 Thinking About Blog Fiction
5 The Big Game
4 Walking the Dogs Again
January 2012
29 An Old Green Truck
23 Ellipticalling, Again
22 Still playing Kingdom Rush
16 Towering Defenses
14 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
11 How is it supposed to be?
8 No, Not That Kind of Walking Stick
7 An Amazing Story: Traveling to Planet ‘Public Domain’
5 This is the Power Droid You’re Looking For
2 Is your Lego house on fire?
December 2011
31 “And Now Let’s Get Things Started”
30 Where’s Walking Stick?
29 Becoming Inhumane
28 Dear Teahouse Forum
27 No Comment
26 Low Blow Pimento, Day 26
25 Okay, this is a Pet Post
24 In Soviet Russia, @KGBieber Follows YOU
23 I am Ohhoog
22 This Post Has 300 Words
21 Who reads this? And for whom is it written?
20 Flapdoodle McDoodleson
19 Low Blow Pimento reports on: THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS
18 Do They Bite?
17 The TV Static
16 The Globber
15 Not a Pet Blog; Not Even a Pet Post
14 I’m Glad I Didn’t Write This
I hope everyone will ‘like’ this page. Hey! Let’s talk about politics! And religion!
13 Fortress Christmas
12 36 Days Hath December
11 Santa’s Helpers
10 I can tell that we are gonna’ be friends
9 My name is Scott the Blogger
8 Remembering Grandpa Louie
7 Respinning
The Warmest Time of the Year
6 Doing the Needful
5 Axis of Gastric Evil: Taco Bell and KFC
4 Where do posts come from?
3 I am not Othos
2 My Life So Far, in Video Games
1 LoBloPoMo
November 2011
29 Waypoint #1
22 Content Generator
20 A Vacation Chronology
17 It’s a Nice Day for a Black Thanksgiving
15 It’s 2am. Time to wake up.
12 Steve and Me
11 Subtleties of Cutleries
8 Energize Me
5 They Go To Work
3 Writing Things Down
October 2011
28 The Best Time of the Day
26 Post #363
23 Tied Up In Knots
20 John Perry Barlow: The Economy of Ideas
16 Sunday Cat Blogging: Sprite
14 The Old Barn
11 Ryan Montbleau Band at The Dakota Jazz Club
9 Reverend Blue Jeans
September 2011
24 Ryan Montbleau and Jason Spooner at the Varsity
August 2011
23 Itsy Bitsy Fritsy now available for Amazon Kindle
15 ‘Some Internet Fraudster’
July 2011
26 Oh, Hell, the Black-eyed Susans are Back
19 Five Years of Moving to Freedom
17 Split Rock Lighthouse: A Photo and Loosely-Related Words
June 2011
30 The Indiana Harbor Arrives in Duluth
May 2011
29 Flowers at an Antique Shop as an Oil Painting
April 2011
27 Spring 2011 Newsletter
March 2011
27 In the Offices of Federated & Amalgamated, Incorporated
20 After This Cigarette
13 Sudden Acceleration
February 2011
26 Jake the Bowling Mechanic and Me
January 2011
28 Do you have $2,000 to contribute to the free software cause?
December 2010
31 Trying out Chrome as a Replacement for Firefox (Ubuntu 10.04)
28 John Carmack: Patents Considered Horrifying
26 John Carmack on Doing Something Great
20 Ad Location in Google Custom Search Engine (Problems and Solutions)
19 URGENT: Upgrade your version of WinZip RIGHT NOW
November 2010
12 Hawk
6 Scarcity and Abundance: Clay Shirky, “Cognitive Surplus”
October 2010
28 Easy binary/decimal (denary) conversions in Python 2.6+
September 2010
6 New Boxer Puppy!
August 2010
22 Tettegouche arch falls into Lake Superior
10 arranging windows from the gnu/linux command line with wmctrl
July 2010
30 WordPress Plugin: Post Revision Display
17 WordPress Plugin: The French Archives
16 Trey Ratcliff HDR: Driving to Akaroa (New Zealand)
11 WordPress Plugin, YARQ v3.0: Yet Another Random Quote
8 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Spiritual Laws
June 2010
29 Again, Waipi’o
26 Mind Grapes Recruiting 1: Meeting Kurt Bill
May 2010
31 Road Down to Waipi’o, Hawai’i
26 Introducing: Mind Grapes Recruiting
22 Kapaho Tide Pools on the Big Island
8 Mind Grapes
April 2010
30 The Church of Martin Sexton
19 Itsy Bitsy Fritsy: Afterword?
18 Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 16: An Unexpected Turn of Events
Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 15: Operation Fiery Fred, Part Three
Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 14: Visitors in the Night (Another Interlude)
17 Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 13: Operation Fiery Fred, Part Two
Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 12: Interlude
16 Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 11: Operation Fiery Fred, Part One
15 Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 10: Reprieve, Reproach, Regroup
14 Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 9: Betrayal
Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 8: The Refrigerator Gambit, Part Two
Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 7: The Refrigerator Gambit, Part One
13 Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 6: The Spiderish Inquisition
12 Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 5: How It Went Down, Part Two
Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 4: How It Went Down, Part One
Itsy Bitsy Fritsy: FYI
11 Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 3: A Simple Plan
10 Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 2: Für Ursel
9 Itsy Bitsy Fritsy 1: Sic Semper Tyrannis
7 Introducing: Fritzi Webber
4 Stuff That ‘Used To Be Here’
March 2010
27 Honomalino Beach, Hawaii
20 12 Years in Orbit: My 1998 Saturn
February 2010
26 The Tunnel to the Singularity
24 From the Kitchen Table: new Martin Sexton!
21 May I help promote your music?
15 Frosted Over
January 2010
23 Conjugaciones de Tugger (un poco irregular)
21 findr: a GNU/Unix ‘find’ helper
December 2009
20 Soup Saver Scoop
19 bytesore: a web site or computer program that is unpleasant, ugly, or offensive
12 Little Boxes at Night, by Trey Ratcliff
8 Music of the URB: Chiron Beta Prime
7 Underground Robot Revolution
November 2009
28 Now Playing: ‘DejaVu Sans’ Font
20 Python Sequence Generator
19 Every Shadow of a Shade of an Idea…
15 Python CSS Shrinker for WordPress
9 I Do Want to Write!
4 Rubbing sticks together to make math on Mars.
3 You’ve reached Chewbacca’s voice mail; please leave a message.
October 2009
11 Ryan Montbleau Band plays to ‘Zombie Pub Crawl’ in Minneapolis
9 Hawaii: Pu’uhonua o Honaunau, the Place of Refuge
7 Please comment: Are you reading this? Are you a feed subscriber?
5 How will we pay for free?
4 No More ‘Curly Quotes’ in WordPress
September 2009
21 Filed: My ‘Fiction Writing’ Provisional Patent!
17 The strong would be fretted by an energy for which there was no outlet…
13 Santorini Revisited
12 Police guitarist Andy Summers demonstrates Thomas Jefferson’s point
2 Foux du Fafa
August 2009
27 FreeMind Review
10 Eben Moglen Returns to Blogging
4 Roxanne
July 2009
30 35 Percent!
26 ‘Say Everything’ by Scott Rosenberg
25 O’Hare Gate C17
15 gedit bad behaviors
14 Mako: ‘Taking a Principled Position on Software Freedom’
12 A Note About XHTML Validation of ‘Moving to Freedom’ Pages
Free Software (Briefly)
Free Culture (Briefly)
6 Beware the Bronze Birch Borer
June 2009
27 Python script: Extract slashdot user names and ID numbers from a story discussion
May 2009
30 Big Brown Moth
25 A Campfire is Born
10 The Schleich Gnu is Back
April 2009
28 Rearranging Plans for the Ryan Montbleau Band
27 Oh, the Pettiness… It Hurtses Us
17 Some Friday Links
5 NetBeans Python Plugin
2 Seasonal Interest in Exercise Machines
March 2009
30 The Great Zucchini
18 Python script for backing up Twitter statuses
14 That’s Bulshytt
8 Thru-You: Kutiman, the YouTube Maestro
4 Stuck in Customs: John Deere at the Ranch
February 2009
27 Gnus in Ngorongoro
26 Yes, your HP Scanjet 2400 might work in Ubuntu and maybe even other flavors of GNU/Linux
25 Budget Bird Houses
24 Dora the Explorer
23 Copyright Quibble
22 Hawaii: Waipi’o Valley
2 memo
January 2009
28 tar up directories only
4 Preparedness
December 2008
21 Hello Writing Resistance, My Old Friend
15 Ray LaMontagne: Empty
9 Begging Your Pardon on Begging the Question
7 Hamster on a Wheel
5 More Clerkenwell: Kix, Terminally Ambivalent Over You
Bathtime in Clerkenwell
4 Richard Stallman supports Creative Commons. Do you?
November 2008
30 James Boyle: The Public Domain
21 Don’t overthink your fruit and vegetable purchases…
19 Turkey Trek 5K
16 Martin Sexton at the Fitzgerald Theater
12 Weighing In
9 The Running Bug
7 Ryan Montbleau at the Fitzgerald Theater
6 I’ve been holdin’ on to this ticket…
October 2008
29 The Obama Show
26 trying out twitter
24 Kevin Kelly: Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism
23 Free Culture ‘Take Backsies’ on Flickr
21 Richard Stallman at U of M Tonight (Tuesday, Oct 21)
September 2008
27 A Crossing @ Afton State Park, MN
1 The Phone Book is Here!
August 2008
26 Some Time After The Move
24 Awaiting Anathem
23 Images from the 2008 Minnesota State Fair
15 Big Green Caterpillar
July 2008
28 Is this Poison Ivy?
26 Free Software and ‘Politics,’ a Comment by Rufus Polson
3 Washington and Milk Street
June 2008
29 Outside South Station
28 I’m Losing It
21 Randy Pausch on the World Book Encyclopedia and Wikipedia
1 Now Playing: Big Buck Bunny
April 2008
28 FSF Meeting in Boston (Part One)
14 Steven Levy = Awesome Writer
1 Regex Walk-Through: Match filename base and extension
March 2008
30 Power of Example (and the Long View)
29 Python: Regex Test Function
27 3rd time not quite a charm: Upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
23 Goals: Learning Python and Regular Expressions
17 Back from Boston
9 Me and You and a GPG Key Named Boo
2 Heading to Boston for an FSF Meeting
February 2008
29 Leap Post
26 2007 Traffic Stats for ‘Moving to Freedom’
25 Corporate I/T in a Nutshell
24 Are you seeing double?
23 Tomboy: Bulk import files with the D-Bus interface and Python
18 Your blog’s ‘about’ page might get you a job at Google
17 When will the copyright holders want control over our mind’s eye?
16 Converting PDFs into Image Files (Citimortgage PDF Reprise)
10 WordPress XHTML Validator Plugin
5 Down in the Caucus, Out in the Street
January 2008
26 Citimortgage PDFs: Ugh
21 Review: Iron Maiden Biography by Mick Wall
12 Decriminalizing non-commercial file sharing
9 Moving from MS Money to KMyMoney
1 This ain’t no holiday
December 2007
29 Doomed!
17 Ruthless Massively Parallel Trial-and-Error with a Feedback Cycle
9 Playing the Leeann Chin Gift Card Investment Game
7 Updating the Linksys BEFSR41 Router Firmware from GNU/Linux
3 Long Canyon Trail
November 2007
26 Picture Filer: A free Java program for naming and sorting image files
18 On the Sharing of Free Software
12 Martin Sexton, ‘Hallelujah’
11 Displaying a Scaled Image with Java Swing
10 NetBeans Gotcha: GUI custom component problem when package and class named the same
8 At the St. Paul Curling Club
6 NautilusSvn and New Emblems
4 Code Format Helper for WordPress (Java Program)
3 HTML Character Entity References of Potential Interest to WordPress Users
2 Thoughts on Invention, Innovation, and Patents from ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel’
1 Taro Fields in Hanalei Valley, Kauai, Hawaii
October 2007
31 Robert Heinlein Describes the Situation
30 Subversion (SVN) GNOME Nautilus Script Helpers
29 NetBeans Update, Briefly and Vaguely
28 Turning off trackbacks/pingbacks…
HOWTO: Rotate JPG images in GNOME’s Nautilus File Manager
27 The Sad Plight of Some People
26 Sedona, Arizona: Cathedral Rock
25 Mah Na Mah Na » Scrubs » Martin Sexton, ‘Diner’
24 Don’t forget…
23 New Dirs in Gutsy: Documents, Music, Pictures, Blah, Blah
22 Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Swings In
21 Jeremy Allison on Innovation and Patents
20 Amazon MP3 Download: Jeff Beck, ‘Heart Full of Soul’
14 Subversion (SVN) helper bash script to list repo dirs
9 Hodgepodge of Miscellany, part 2 of 2: Google Code, Subversion, Meld
7 Hodgepodge of Miscellany, part 1 of 2: FSM, OO.o, Tomboy
5 Cascade River, again
September 2007
29 Peach! (Free Software, Free Movies)
25 Thunderbird New Mail Notifier
22 Cascade River State Park, Minnesota
18 At Night, the Robot Slept
16 YARQ! Quotes and Excerpts and Snippets, Oh My!
14 Celebrating Software Freedom Day: Check out some newly emancipated AI Java example code
10 Flowers at an Antique Shop
9 Michel Bauwens comments on the dark side of peer to peer
8 A Silly Post Brought to You by the Letters E and F
5 The Kid
4 WordPress Plugin Binge
3 The Dog
2 Photopost: Minnesota Aspens in Summer
August 2007
28 Moving to NetBeans (from Eclipse)
Inside the Library
27 This Building is a LIBRARY
26 Citibank: You’re on Notice
25 Who will own (and police) our digital future?
24 Perfectly Cromulent Image Cropping with the GIMP
19 Remarkable Free (as in free culture) Photography by Paulo Barcellos
17 Friday Free Wallpaper Post: Patio
14 system76 creative alternative support
11 GNU/Linux Firefox image display problem caused by CSS padding
5 Toil: Ethernet, Comment Previews, Trackbacks, and WordPress Updates
2 The 35W Bridge Collapse
July 2007
30 Free Software Money Management Quandary
22 One Year of ‘Moving to Freedom’
21 Summer Days, One Step at a Time
14 Lake Superior Rocky and Pebbly Shoreline
10 Lines are Blurring
7 Not Unexpectedly: K3b is Just Swell for CD and DVD Burning in GNU/Linux
4 Mostly Done!
Doing Things the Hard Way
June 2007
29 PermutationIterator.java (in honor of GPLv3)
28 How do you disable the CTRL+T ‘move to trash’ shortcut in GNOME/Nautilus?
24 A Library is a Vault for Locking Up Books
17 Using GNU/Linux: Happy, Happy
11 At the Blue Ox Market
8 Brian Behlendorf: Open Source as a Business Strategy
6 On the other side…
May 2007
30 I’m Going In. (Freedom, Yeah!)
28 Monday Photopost: Quebec City Wall Mural
26 The Recklessness of Storms
24 The ‘History’ of Storms
19 For the Love of Problem Solving…
9 HOWTO: Installing and Running WordPress on Ubuntu GNU/Linux
4 Friday Photopost: Mahaulepu Beach in Kauai, Hawaii
April 2007
25 The Freeness of Free Software
15 bash shell script: copy only files modified after specified date
13 Friday Photopost: Minneapolis, Minnesota
8 Brasero does the CD burning job in GNOME
3 A Charismatic Operating System?
March 2007
31 Google’s Matt Cutts Hacked!
21 Software Inevitably Must Be Free
17 A Beautiful Troll: Windows Required for GNU/Linux
15 A Free Culture Acorn Sprouts
6 GNU/Linux Graphics Programs in Ubuntu
3 Password Safe / Password Gorilla
February 2007
27 40-year-old Choppers
23 Beyond GNU/Linux: GNU/Egg and GNU/Embryo
21 HOWTO: EncFS Encrypted Filesystem in Ubuntu and Fedora GNU/Linux
18 We are creating our successors
16 HOWTO: Remote Desktop with VNC in Ubuntu Edgy/Feisty
10 HOWTO: TrueCrypt in Ubuntu and Fedora GNU/Linux
9 Don’t remove the ‘super’ from sudo, like I did in Ubuntu
7 Check out the Rambling Traveler!
6 HOWTO: Samba and the NSLU2: Remote Drives in GNU/Linux
5 Doing the Samba with the Slug
4 Inertia prevents Bruce Schneier from moving to GNU/Linux
January 2007
27 Six Month Anniversary and Spam Milestone
23 Ray Kurzweil: Information should not be free?
20 Meet the New ‘Move Notes’, Same as the Old ‘Move Status’
19 Caught in Google’s Web?
14 Arlo and Thoreau, Undying Adventure on a Neighborhood Walk
10 GNU/Miscellany
8 Windows Baggage: Failing to comprehend ‘network drives’ in GNU/Linux
2 Techdirt doesn’t get the Children’s Machine (aka the $100 laptop)
December 2006
31 Page 123 (doing the meme thing)
23 Microsoft Money to GnuCash
22 Friday Photopost: More Minnesota Aspens in Fall
21 Laying Claim to the Public Domain
20 How dumb can GNU/Linux users be?
16 Still Here
10 Slashdot Copyright Discussion (re: Gowers Report and Dead Artist Petition)
9 You’re a Mean One, Mr. GIMP
8 Late Friday Photopost: Sedona, Arizona
5 SEO Song: ‘Google Loves Me’
3 GNU/Solaris and GPLv3
1 Friday Photopost: Santorini, Greece
November 2006
30 Assorted Miscellany
27 Makin’ Copies! ‘The Promise of a Post-Copyright World’
25 Turkish Star Trek
‘Moving to Freedom’ Subscription and Social Bookmarking Notes
23 Kids Against Hunger (Feeding Children International)
22 Thanksgiving Holiday Post Promo
21 Red Hat Film: ‘Truth Happens’
19 Spirit of system76
18 ‘Then They Fight You’
17 Friday Photopost: Beach on the Island Kauai
15 Ubuntu/Xubuntu Live CDs
14 Free Tanks for Everyone! Good Gas Mileage.
12 A round of GNU/Linux, heading in to the back nine. (Part 2)
11 How was your round of GNU/Linux? (Part 1)
10 Friday Photopost: Ladies on the Dock
9 Little Tiny Baby Steps
6 Yah, sure. You betcha.
4 Does Free Software Taste Great, or is Open Source Less Filling?
3 Friday Photopost: Sylvan Lake in the Black Hills
October 2006
29 Stephan Kinsella, ‘Against Intellectual Property’
28 Free Software is a Weak Mode of Production?
27 Friday Photopost? Minneapolis Stone Arch Bridge.
26 Review: Linus Torvalds, ‘Just for Fun’
22 New Ad in Town
21 Architecture of Annoyance
5 Ways to Save on Your Monthly Software Rental Bill in the Year 2056
19 Cell Phone Seduction
15 MetaMiscellanyStatsPost
10 Photos: Autumn in Northern Minnesota
9 Reformation of a Visual Basic Programmer
6 Thomas Jefferson on Patents and Freedom of Ideas
5 Comment Preview Feature
4 Unbounded Freedom
3 Confessions of a Visual Basic Programmer
September 2006
29 Picnic
26 Free Culture: An ‘Inside the Slush Pile’ Exclusive!
25 Metapost: So close, yet so far…
23 Getting Images to Display in a FeedBurner Feed and Some Hasty Thoughts on Free Software
22 Free Culture?
20 Metapost
Eeyore is Dead
15 StarTribune isn’t del.icio.us
14 Ubuntu for Web Surfing and Spreadsheets
11 Blogging for ‘Free Software Magazine’
9 Introducing: Minimalist Reviews
3 Ralph Waldo Emerson
August 2006
31 Ben Franklin on Patents; in which he provides a Selfless model for Sharing and Cooperation; Inspires us with his Generosity; and Lends Moral Authority to the Principles of Free Culture…
29 What if the emperor has no secrets?
26 Google Analytics Reports
20 Standing on the Corner with Pamphlets in Hand
13 just de-lovely, and del.icio.us
5 Run, Freedom, Run!
July 2006
27 How to Write?
19 Welcome to ‘Moving to Freedom’ BETA!