Links to random stuff. -- Brian Wilson
(Read
a personal
description of Backblaze here.)
2008 Backblaze Online Backup - an explanation of my recent project, and Online Backup Company with 4 partners and myself.
reddit.com Case Study - My silly personal vacation photo website got featured on "reddit.com", rose into the top 10, an analysis of what happened.
Unlocking Garmin GPS Maps - Garmin makes the worst installer I've ever had the displeasure to use, and here are screenshots proving it is terrible.
2008 Breckenridge, Vail, Copper Ski Trip - pictures and movies from a ski trip to Breckenridge Colorado and surrounding areas.
2008 Telluride Ski Trip - pictures and movies from a ski trip to Telluride.
2007 Squirrel Obstacle Course - A very important engineering undertaking, teaching Squirrels about Peanuts and how to find them.
2007_Backblaze_Office_Warming_Party - Pictures from the Backblaze World Wide Headquarters Grand Opening Party.
2007 Ari's Coming of_Age - Ari Echt-Wilson (my niece) and her 13th Birthday party (Bat Mitzvah inspired coming of age celebration).
2007 Stuart's 40th Birthday in London - Pictures from Stuart Cheshire's 40th birthday party in London, England.
2007 Family Reunion in Newport Oregon - Pictures from a family reunion in Newport Oregon with my brother, sister, parents and family.
2007 Notes On libCURL, OpenSSL, ZLIB, and SH2 - Some technical notes on the relationship between these libraries.
2007_Europe_Motorcycle_Trip - a motorcycle trip through Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, and Germany.
2007 Notes On OpenSSL - Some technical notes on how to build OpenSSL on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and the Macintosh.
2007 Monterey Horse Show - I visited my friend Christina and watched her daughter Melanie ride at the Monterey Springfest Horse Show
Backblaze - This is the new company I started recently. See it here: http://www.Backblaze.com Also, Click here to read some Backblaze press articles I stashed away for posterity.
2007 Chamonix Ski Trip - a week long ski trip with friends to Chamonix, France
2007 Skiing Bear Valley, California - a one day trip to ski at Bear Valley, California.
2007 Small Business Network Setup - Random documents on how I setup a small in-home network to support development on a small software
Brian's TZ170W Configuration Notes - How I used a SonicWall TZ170W to setup my network.
Installing RedHat Linux on Dell Optiplex 745 - How to install RedHat Enterprise Linux on a Dell Optiplex 745
Setting Up Subversion on Windows 2003 Server - The steps I took to install Subversion (Source Code Control System) on a Windows 2003 Server.
2007 Mini Ski Epic - A 3 week driving ski trip in 2007.
World of Warcraft Newbie Fast Track Guide - How I played World of Warcraft (WoW) for 2 weeks and went from level 1 to level 26.
2006_Montana_Hunting - hunting deer in Custer National Forest, and hunting Elk in the Montana Bitterroots.
2006_Europe_Motorcycle_Trip - a motorcycle trip through Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, and Germany.
Amsterdam_Bicycles - a web page about Amsterdam Bicycles and Amsterdam Bicyclists and comparing them with San Francisco Bicyclists
Convert_WMV_to_MP4_H_264 - a web page documenting how to convert Windows Media Video (WMV) to MP4 video (also known as H.264, also known as AVC, also known as MPEG-4).
2006 Canada Motorcycle Trip - a motorcycle trip from San Francisco up through Canada and the Northern United States.
1980 Suzuki GS1000L vs. 2006 Honda ST1300 ABS - the only two motorcycles I've ever owned.
Backyard BBQ with Firepit 2006 - pictures from the "final payout" celebration of MailFrontier.
Telluride 2006 - pictures and movies from a trip to Telluride.
Mammoth Ski Trip 2006 - Pictures from a ski trip to Mammoth, California.
Grandma's Memorial Service - Pictures from Erma Louise Wilson's memorial service.
Burning Man 2005 - Pictures and videos from an RV trip to Burning Man.
Amsterdam & London 2005 - Pictures from a quick trip to Amsterdam and London to visit Nilay, Pavni, and Stuart.
Pimped Sentra - I put a Pioneer AVIC-N2 GPS and iPod in my Sentra.
Chip Visit 2005 - My cousin Chip drops by, we visit Sausalito, Monterey and Big Sur.
Telluride 2005 - pictures and movies from a trip to Telluride.
Big Sky and Moonlight Basin, Montana 2005 - pictures from a ski trip to Big Sky Montana
Rant on Why STL is Bad - (for Programmers Only) Why the Standard Template Library makes C++ coding harder, not easier.
Lake Tahoe New Year's Eve Dec 2004 - pictures from New Year's Eve, December 2004, and a powder ski day.
Sailboating in San Francisco Bay 2004, pictures and panoramas a day sailing in San Francisco Bay and Sausalito.
Europe Motorcycle Trip of 2004, pictures and panoramas of my motorcycle trip through Europe.
Lake Tahoe 2004 - pictures from a ski trip to Telluride.
Telluride 2004 - pictures from a trip to Telluride.
Billy's Cube Full of Balloons - to pass the time, just something to do while Billy was away on vacation.
Eli Plays Tennis in Palm Springs 2003 - small camera video of Eli playing in a tennis tournament.
Fort Peck Deer Hunting 2003 - pictures from hunting deer in Fort Peck Reservoir, Montana.
Elk Hunting 2003 - pictures from hunting Elk in Montana.
Telluride 2003 - pictures from a trip to Telluride.
Jackson Hole 2003 - pictures from a ski trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming with some friends.
Firing Uncle Ralph's Cannon - this black powder cannon fires juice cans filled with concrete
Capitola Wharf - a panoramic picture from the end of the wharf
Elk Barbeque 2002, pictures of the Elk barbeque party.
Telluride 2002, pictures from a visit to Telluride.
Steamboat, Winter Park 2002, pictures from a ski trip in March 2002.
Boat Page, pictures of Brian's boat and pictures of the three stages (stage1, stage2, stage3) of bringing the boat up from LA.
Last Boat Day 2001, pictures from the last trip out on my boat before putting it up for sale.
Boat Day with Friends 2001, pictures from a random day on my boat with 10 friends.
Halloween Pumpkin Carving 2001, a bunch of us carve some pumpkins.
Europe Motorcycle Trip of 2001, pictures and QuickTime video of my motorcycle trip through Europe.
Blue Angels Boat Day, pictures from a day on the San Francisco Bay on my boat with a few of my boat neighbors, watching the Blue Angels.
Boat Eviction, they are filling my marina in with dirt and building 1,300 condos. I am evicted.
My Micro RS4 remote control car, this is a boring page, please don't read it.
Heavenly ski day 2001, some pictures from a day on the ski hill at Heavenly Lake Tahoe.
Sentra 2002, pictures of the best snow car ever made since the 1990 Sentra.
Montana Elk Hunt 2001, some pictures from cousin Chip, Bruce and my elk hunting trip.
CODEBLAZE is the company I formed to do consulting work.
MailFrontier is the company I founded with Pavni Diwanji to make the world a better place. We stop all junk email (Spam) from entering your mailbox. Click here to see some articles about our company and product launch on 8/26/02 and then the following years. Click here to see some pictures of a company offsite in early 2003. Click here to see pictures of our booth at the RSA conference in February, 2004. Click here to see our TV ad. Click here for some employee webpages. Click here to see a few random pictures from our history. Click here for MailFrontier_Quotes Click here for a company timeline.
Albuquerque visit 2001, includes ski pictures of niece Ari and nephew Eli, 4 and 6 years old.
Japan visit 2001, pictures from my trip to Japan visiting Jason Knight.
Telluride visit 2001, pictures from my Telluride trip of 2001 including pictures of Lise & Lance's house.
Banff Trips, 2001, pictures from our ski trips to Banff (Lake Louise), Canada.
Glider in Telluride, pictures of my glider flight in Telluride.
Whistler Trip 2000, pictures from a trip to ski Whistler in the winter of 2000.
Snoring, how I had my snoring fixed.
Raccoon and sod, how I caught a raccoon that was tearing up my yard.
Friends, I have two married
friends johnsmith@mailfrontier.com
and janesmith@mailfrontier.com
who have helped me greatly with my business. Are you paying attention?
Why do you think I put these here?
you found this and figured it out. You can also check out my ski-epic members
page if you need more hints.
Papua New Guinea 1972 - Pictures from when our family lived in Goroka, Papua New Guinea in 1972, scanned in for posterity.
Newport, Oregon Crabin' Cabin (1972 - 1995) - Old Classic Photo Albums, scanned in for posterity.
Grandma's Quilt, this is a quilt my family made for my grandmother. Each grandchild did one square, and then we sewed them together and gave it to her for her 90'th birthday.
Casey Jones is an artist working at MailFrontier, and Steve Chen is an engineer that works there also. Scott Eikenberry works at MailFrontier also.
Sarah Parks on her first motorcycle trip. I convinced Sarah to come on another motorcycle trip, click here to see pictures from that trip. Click here to see Sarah on another Motorcycle Ride, 2006. You can see Sarah's homepage here.
Continuum Downloads - Continuum 1.04 is the very last version of a game my brother Randy and I wrote long ago for the Macintosh.
Family Photographs - Some scanned in photos.
Java Critique - In 1996, I fooled around a bit with the Java programming language, which I decided in 1996 just wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Click here to read my critique of the language.
Explanation of 56K modems - I was curious how 56Kbit modems worked and why they are asymetric (56 Kbit downstream but only 28.8Kbit upstream) so I bought my buddy Nelson a beer and he explained it VERY clearly. Click here to read my summary of that explanation.
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta 1997 - The "Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta" is an AMAZING hot air balloon festival that happens each year. I think these pictures are from 1997 (plus or minus a year).
Deer Hunting 1995 - In October of 1995 I went on my very first hunting trip with some cousins of mine in Montana. It was quite a different experience for me, and I had a lot of fun. We were hunting for elk and deer, and we bagged two deer. Click here to view a picture of me with the two deer.
A random hard-to-find set of music stored on Codeblaze. Also ski-epic sound and music files (includes Conan saying).
(Read
a personal
description of Backblaze here.)
