Small code with powerful results, the occasional opinion … and beer. 

23 Oct 2012
It’s an election year, and I really miss living in California … again.

I spent 9 years in the Los Angeles area during my high school and early adult years. California gets a lot of stereotyped criticism from other parts of the country for any number of reasons, but I have fond memories of the state. And that includes how California manages its elections, and especially… its official […]

03 Oct 2012
Exit Tomato, Enter DD-WRT… and a weird NAT loopback issue.

I recently lost my Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 router which has served me faithfully for years running Tomato firmware.  I had difficulty finding any new router on the market, which had the NAT loopback feature as well as the ability to filter incoming IP addresses for a service port. I found a Rosewill RNX-N300RT router from NewEgg […]