Andy Brett
is a writer, engineer, and athlete living in Silicon Valley
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2012
Export and Visualize Your Jawbone UP Data - Jan 20
2011
The Best Camera Is the One You Don't Take Out of Your Pocket - Dec 21
Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Start A Startup: Or, What I Learned At Startup School 2011 - Oct 30
Race Report: 101st Annual Dipsea - Jun 18
Never Work A Day In Your Life - Jun 13
Race Report: Bay to Breakers - May 15
Race Report: Muir Woods Marathon - Apr 10
UI and Zero Gravity Toilets - Mar 29
Crossing The Streams - Jan 16
Recent Additions: Bookmarks, Tags, Momentum, and a Beard - Jan 07
2010
Race Report: Summit Rock Half Marathon - Dec 12
How To Send Gmail Without Checking Gmail - Dec 10
Now With Photo Hosting! - Dec 05
Sex, Lies, and the TSA - Nov 20
Reclaiming Fragmented Disk Space; Or, Thoughts Upon Leaving TechCrunch - Nov 04
Crunchhunch - Nov 02
Where This Is Going - Oct 24
Rails Rumble 2010 - Oct 22
Startup School Recap - Oct 18
GitHub Hits One Million Hosted Repositories - Jul 25
From iPhone to Android - Jul 19
Social Network Personalities - May 30
Goodbye, Facebook - May 21
2009
From the archives - Dec 31
Rails Rumble 2009 - Vote For Your Favorite App - Aug 30
Inbox: Zero. Google Reader: not so much - Jul 22
Ad-free Pandora - May 21
The way we [should] share now: Tonido - May 09
The Music Man: Your young men will be Twitterin' - Apr 27
Freedom to Tinker: The Double-edged Sword - Apr 17
...and in with the new - Apr 17
Out with the old... - Apr 17
How-To: Debian (Lenny) + Enterprise Ruby + Passenger + Git - Apr 04
The Days are Just Packed - Apr 03
Raw [Normalized] Data Now: Tim Berners-Lee and the Future of the Web - Mar 14
Musings - Feb 20
Fashion Icon - Feb 05
Update: RecycleBank - Jan 17
2008
Race Report: Coast Raid - Sep 02
Departure - Aug 18
Sunday Life Update - Aug 11
Marketing, Microsoft, and ... Buddhism - Aug 06
Facebook Notes - Jul 26
Race Report: Nautica NYC Triathlon - Jul 21
Friday Rant: "Out of Pocket" - Jul 18
RimuHosting - Jun 25
Consultants and Office Space - Jun 12
Software and Construction - Jun 10
Testing... - May 28
The Collectively Imagined Economy, Part II - May 22
Amtrak Cuts Service, Hikes Fares - May 19
The Collectively Imagined Economy - May 08
Of Projects, Decision-Making, and Vocabulary - May 05
Adventure Racing as Life, and Other Analogies - Apr 30
Trimming the Fat: Reading Fewer Blogs - Apr 24
The SAVAGE 2008 - Apr 22
Everyday Design: Facebook and the Prius - Apr 18
Grand Opening of the Newseum; Plus, the Weekend Update - Apr 16
Google Reader Stats, an Update; Plus: Googlegängers - Apr 11
Google Reader Stats - Apr 09
Book Review: Cradle to Cradle - Apr 09
Book Review: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance - Apr 04
April Fool's - Apr 01
Two Weekends in New York - Mar 31
Deep (Rambling) Thoughts on Health Care and Health Informatics - Mar 28
Thoroughly Modern Do-Gooders - Mar 24
Process - Mar 13
The Four Hour Workweek - Mar 07
Frigid Infliction 2008 - Mar 04
Stephen Colbert at the National Portrait Gallery - Feb 22
Book Review: The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Feb 21
The News From Old Nassau... - Feb 21
A New Learning Tool (Plus: How I Work Best) - Feb 20
Book Review: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto - Feb 18
Travel Recommendations for St. John, US Virgin Islands - Feb 14
Super Tuesday - Feb 06
Broadway Plaxico - Feb 04
NYRR Half-marathon - Feb 03
Purpose... it's that little flame... - Jan 20
Stephen Colbert - Jan 18
I just realized that... - Jan 17
To Do: Integrate Jott and Remember the Milk - Jan 17
2007
Free Agent Nation, Part I - Dec 07
Facebook and Ads - Nov 06
Peter Singer and Poverty - Nov 06
I saw Paula Radcliffe - Nov 05
orkut - Oct 26
One Laptop Per Child - Oct 18
Citing [our] text - Oct 11
Dueling Perceptions of "Kids These Days" - Oct 10
We get letters... - Oct 08
Living like New Yorkers - Oct 04
Global Warming - Sep 11
Embedded Google Maps - Sep 10
J'apprends le français - Sep 06
Clay Buchholz - Sep 04
Choking on Growth - Aug 28
Google Sky - Aug 23
The Return of the King - Aug 16
2006
Plug - Jan 21
2005
I Heart Huckabees - Dec 24
Finally, a post - Dec 15
Dr. Allan Johnson - Oct 20
"One lap across… - Oct 19
"Andy Brett... - Oct 15
Friend, not foe - Oct 11
James Lee Witt - Oct 10
Eating Clubs - Oct 09
The time to hesitate is through.... - Oct 07
Problems with surveys - Oct 04
Effects of the fight against gouging - Sep 26
Frosh Trip - Sep 26
Everyone's a little bit....libertarian - Sep 24
Trick Question - Sep 15
Incessant barking - Sep 14
Gone - Sep 03
OK Go - Sep 01
Another Upgrade - Aug 31
Back to school - Aug 31
Katrina - Aug 28
Environmental Economics - Aug 27
New Blogroll - Aug 26
Movin' on up - Aug 26
So... - Aug 25
Test one two... - Aug 25
Testing out a bit of a hack.... - Aug 25
Any takers? - Aug 23
Light sweet crude reading - Aug 21
New York, New York - Aug 18
Front sprawl - Aug 18
Heuristics - Aug 12
Crunchy - Aug 07
End Run - Aug 07
To the states! - Aug 04
Water for the world - Aug 02
The Reasoned Right - Aug 01
Santorum and Stewart - Jul 31
Income tax - Jul 31
Ecosystems - Jul 30
What to do? Nothing!* - Jul 30
Framing - Jul 30
CAFTA - Jul 30
Monkey wrench of irrationality - Jul 30
The Lorax - Jul 30
Response - Jul 30
You know me... - Jul 22
Ping..... - Jul 20
Road privatization - Jul 20
Gas tax - Jul 19
Spartan cheer - Jul 17
Ramble on... - Jul 16
Too little, too late (I think) - Jun 26
New York City - Jun 25
Totally sweet software - Jun 25
USA TODAY, tomorrow the world - Jun 17
Pictures - Jun 10
Wow - Jun 10
Gristmill - Jun 06
Open Source....School? - Jun 06
Funny Stuff - Jun 05
I Love Puns - Jun 05
Update - Jun 04
The Meaning of Liberal - Jun 04
Persuasion, Dead? - Jun 04
Essay Contest - Jun 01
LPDD - May 31
Back - May 30
Last post for a while - May 22
Filibuster - May 20
The End of Poverty - May 18
Plans - May 17
Back to Kyoto - May 17
Update on School - May 16
NY Times - May 16
SKYPE! - May 14
The Tory - May 14
Beyond Red and Blue - May 12
Ecomagination, Filibuster - May 11
GEO 339 - May 10
Idealistic Nation - May 09
Screw Kyoto, Go Apollo - May 09
The Dissident - May 05
Leading Environmental Indicators - May 04
Filibuster, of course - May 03
Group Think and the Buddha - May 03
Death of Environmentalism - May 03
Drinking From the Firehose, or, Completely Different III - May 02
Impromptu Filibustering - May 01
Completely Different, Part II - Apr 30
China - Apr 30
And now for something completely different - Apr 30
Frist Filibuster - Apr 28
Kos - Apr 28
Letters - Apr 26
Five More Days - Apr 25
Daylight Saving Time - Apr 24
The Economist - Apr 23
TV Turnoff Week - Apr 21
The Coming Shift - Apr 21
On this day of days: Legalize it - Apr 20
George Voinovich - Apr 20
The now-infamous hostage situation - Apr 19
House Energy Bill - Apr 19
Thesis - Apr 18
The Trust Fund Facade - Apr 18
John Bolton - Apr 17
What's better than a flawed report? NO report! - Apr 16
Roar From the Heartland? - Apr 16
Nassau Weekly - Apr 16
Happy Tax Day! - Apr 15
Daily Kos - Apr 14
Construction - Apr 14
2004
Hello World - Dec 21