Jess and I are happy to introduce our little Charley. Mom and baby are in amazing shape but things are hectic. Click more for some shots of mom and baby...

One year and over 600 miles ago I decided that I needed to do something... something I was certain was impossible for me to accomplish. Today I run my first marathon and I'm doing it with bib #6900, my Asics Kayano, Oakley Thump Pro, and 12 months of training. UPDATE: I finished!! Read more for the gruesome details...

This year I received the best birthday present a man could get: the word that I'm going to be a father. Here's the first glimpse we got of our incubating daughter at our last ultrasound. Jessica and I are exuberant to welcome our little Charley in 2009; check back here later for a few PetaBytes worth of baby digital media!

Mesh networks are usually considered to be most useful in large area distributions due to the peer to peer nature of their message routing. Mesh networks, however, also flex their muscles in situations requiring higher availability communications in a device local area (thus to coin a term, a L.ocal A.rea M.esh.)

One year ago today, Jessica and I started dating.
One year ago today, I fell in love with the best woman ever to exist.
One year ago today, I found the woman I will spend the rest of my life with.
Yesterday, I asked her to marry me. She said YES!

The IEEE 802.3af standard (also known as Power Over Ethernet - PoE) was ratified July, 2003. Two and a half years have since passed and, up until now, we have seen two distinct PoE device classes form: The affordable "inject DC over those spare wires and hope someone doesn't plug in a 1000mbs device," and the expensive "we read the spec and implemented it for Fortune 500." Fortunately, we're starting to see some sub $200 switches that have a full implementation of 802.3af DTE Power via MDI hit the market... read more for my review.

A new era of simple, energy efficient, and inexpensive sensor and control networks was entered when the Zigbee Alliance ratified the Zigbee specification last year. If you scope out some articles on Google or Wikipedia, you'll find out that 'simple' is a relative term. FFD, RFD, PAN... makes one yearn for the good ole days of transmitters and receivers. Read more for a somewhat simplified description...

At some point in your internet travels, you will come across some person complaining about how his or her employer is dooming the company. This Doomed Company (cache) has a blog detailing the demise of the company right on their main website... authored by the company's CEO and founder!

... and that's just what they'll do. Punch cards were a little before my time, but I maintain much respect for the dangling-chad ancestor to a floppy disk. So how many punch cards would it take to store a single three minute mp3-encoded song? 40,960… plus you have to swap 228 cards per second to get streaming playback. Read more...

Project Piquin features Bright Appliance's Seneria and WSRP products to form monitoring networks in restaurants, warehouses, and other locations requiring distributed environmental monitoring. Follow the development of this project with my blog topic: "Agile Swarm."