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I first heard about the Unicomp reincarnations of the original IBM "clicky" keyboard on Mark Pilgrim's sadly defunct site. I've long been a fan of IBM keyboards -- I used to pick them up at thrift stores. If you bought three you could usually end up with two working keyboards. But …

If you see "http://" in the address bar for a website, that connection is unsecured. Anyone eavesdropping can access everything sent and received between you and the website. Which is no problem if you're reading tmz.com, but a big problem if you're on wamu.com.

If you see "https …

Wouldn't you know it, Words & Pictures runs this snarky strip the week I turn 35. Bastards.

Kate and I took six people up a fire road near Top Of Topanga -- hiked along the fire road for about a mile until we reached a hill with a great view, and then ate a picnic dinner while we watched the sun set, the city lights, and the moon …

People who have known me for a while are slightly puzzled. Why am I semi-consistently using my middle name now, when I never did before? Sudden attack of pretentiousness? Actually, no. When you Google for "John Schofield," I'm WAY down on the list -- not even on the first page. (Some …

Say you've got a Subversion source code tree checked out, and for whatever reason you want to remove all Subversion directories inside that tree. (The thing that makes a Subversion tree a Subversion tree is the presence of a ".svn" folder in every folder of the tree. If you had …

June 16, 2007 -- 4 to 8 p.m. Almost six miles round-trip, and more than 1200 feet elevation gain between Dead Horse Trail and Eagle Rock. We were all hurting by the end of it. Amber S., Debbie I., Kate S., and yours truly. It was a beautiful hike, with …

I went to the Topanga Days festival on Monday of Memorial Day weekend 2007. The Young Dubliners were on stage when I shot this. Mildest slam pit I've ever been in.

The rest of the concert photos, as well as a bunch more shots of the parade, are in the …

OK, that headline is a little ridiculous. But for a number of reasons, I ended up creating a lot of accounts lately -- so here's some pointers to other places you can find me on the web:

Things I use every day: (Just about)

• twitter.com/schof
• flickr.com/photos/schof …

I've done several kinds of travel -- primarily the personal type where you travel for months out of a backpack, and traveling to a specific place for a time period for business -- either training or to fix a problem at a client.

This, however, is a first for me -- traveling for …