Organic Black Beans

With salsa, garlic, and a tomato mixed in. Steamed green beans on the side.

Nice video summary of the MaiTai Kite Camp 2011

2011 MaiTai Highlights from Susi Mai on Vimeo.

I didn't make the video, but it brings back great memories....

Foscam Night Vision

Daytime shot.

The Foscam FI8905W is an inexpensive outdoor IP camera with night vision.  These shots were taken vi the Sensr.net site.  You can learn how to use this Foscam with Sensr.net, (a cloud based IP camera monitoring service) by reading How To Configure a Foscam FI8905w.  The drawback to this camera is that the colors are slightly off when viewing it in the daytime.

Pitch dark shot.

Blush Yogurt Camera

The Blush Organic Yogurt shop around the corner from the Sensr.net office in Burlingame now has a camera. This is a D-Link DCS-930L, which is pretty easy to setup.

Miami Beach Camera

We had a nice trip to Miami Beach over Spring Break.  I took a DCS-932L with me and set it up near the water.  One of the fun clips I found was this one.  Ah, fond memories!

Gestures for Gmail

I've blogged about gestures before.  Here's the latest news from the Gmail team where they are integrating gestures with gmail.



These guys seem to announce really cool stuff at the beginning of April.  Go Google!

Ant Farm Embed

Here's a live view of Jared's Ant Farm. The guys have been busy!

Innovator: Adam Beguelin

Business Week just did a really nice article on me.  We have a lot of cameras around the office, so some of the more interesting ones made it into the photo shoot.

If you have an IP camera, check out sensr.net for all your camera monitoring and socializing needs.

Capistrano and awk

I was trying to use the cap invoke pattern and couldn't get it to work with awk.

$ cap HOSTS=user@server invoke COMMAND="awk '/PORT/ {print $8}' /var/log/ftp.log"

Turns out you need to escape the $8. The correct form is:

$ cap HOSTS=user@server invoke COMMAND="awk '/PORT/ {print \$8}' /var/log/ftp.log"

Note the backslash before the dollar sign. Even though there are quotes, the $8 get's lost somewhere along the line.

In the first case cap output looks like this:
* executing "awk '/PORT/ {print }' /var/log/ftpd.log "

and in the second case:
* executing "awk '/PORT/ {print $8}' /var/log/ftpd.log "


Hope this helps!

Tesla Plug Won't Work

Ran into this plug in the public garage recently.