In 2014, I bought some Outlier pants to be my daily wear for commuting by bike to and from work. Roughly an hour ride through Boston traffic in all sorts of weather gave me ample…

Day One: Driving to Snæfellsnes In February, a traveling companion and I spent a few days driving around Snæfellsnes and visiting spots from the Laxdæla saga. I've tried to use the native Icelandic spelling in…

Introduction This post will attempt to define darknets as I understand them, and to walk through a couple of scenarios about how to crawl sites discovered in darknets. The goal of the crawling is to…

In 2014, I ran some experiments in using various free/very cheap content distribution networks to act as a mirror of Tor Project's website. I setup a mirror of Tor Project's website using their instructions. The…

I want the lightest bike possible. I carry it around, up and down flights of stairs, through airports, and generally having to haul it around town on my shoulder when I'm not riding it. I…