Shawn Holwegner's Blog

Connecting instead of connection.

Tom Magliozzi, of CarTalk fame, died today.

I have never been a huge NPR fan, but between David Sedaris and Click ‘n’ Clack, I always found my way over there at certain times. I’m listening to their old archives on TuneIn. I forgot just how little of the show involved cars near the end. The two ju...

Since I’m no longer spending time on social networks, and I am done working for the moment, I thought I’d share a few of my not-the-most-healthy, but-not-the-worst recipes. As it’s Taco Tuesday, I figured I’d start off with a Latin styled dish:

Quick Chicken Fajitas

  • 2lbs of boneless, skinless...

…just this one little thing.

When I grew up, there were generally three available sizes at stores: a 6 to 10oz bottle, which were rare, 12 ounce cans, and 2 liter bottles. This was good.

Then sometime during the late 80s/early 90s I recall the first time I saw a 16oz version in a plastic bottle. 4 more ounces, in a pretty pla...

One of my personal favorites:

For those who are not familiar, CGM is a scalable file format which allows you to shrink and blow up things and keep fairly good resolution. For the nerds, it’s a 2D vector format.

Recently, WebWis has come into play, and sadly, most of the semi-common models of documentation are as verbatim from...