There’s a certain domain name of which I am part owner, the other owner being my friend in Missoula. This domain is a three-letter dot-com…
Pronounce the dot.
Category: Geeky
I’m an unapologetic narcissist, as most of my writing here will attest. I write mostly about myself and my experiences. Yet for a long while…
Next week I’ll be on a panel called “Katrina 5.0: A Symposium on Technology & Blogging” hosted by the Louisiana State Museum. Among other things,…
I’m sure my parents will be proud to know I’m now the number one result for mandatory ejaculation on Google. Or rather, one of my…
I was recently thrilled, honored, flattered and otherwise gratified to learn that I’ve been nominated for an Ashley Morris Award. I’m not worthy to actually…
My daughter and I enjoyed a fine outing to the park and museum Sunday, but when we came home the house was strangely quiet. No…
We played host over the weekend to an eleven-year-old boy whose mother (a friend of ours) had to make a trip out of town. But…
Our new camera arrived yesterday afternoon, a Sony DSC-HX5V. This is the first shot, straight out the box, without understanding how anything works. Not bad.…
Dear Issa, Of all the projects I’ve worked on in a decade of such work at the University, one of the very first remains one…
Recently I have been reduced to taking photos with my phone. It’s handy to have a camera in your phone, but these days it’s just…
photo by spike55151 So I took the first six seconds of “So Emotional” and looped it eleven times, each time at a lower bit rate.…
The ubiquity of Facebook plus the end of Net Neutrality plus the conversion of the open internet into increasingly walled off proprietary information delivery systems…
Finally created a ROX page on Facebook. Not sure exactly what to do with it, but if you like the show become a fan and…
Imagine my surprise when I discovered my nursery school photo is being used by Cory Frickin’ Doctorow for an article on Boing Boing. The subject?…
These are my answers (from about a month ago) to a really dumb chain e-mail which I got from a really close friend. I’m posting this here just for fun but please, if you get the e-mail, don’t propagate it. Invent something better. These questions are really dumb even for a goofy “getting to know you” meme. I mean, who really cares about the color of the shirt I’m wearing? For the record, even though I answered this thing, I did not forward it on to anyone.