Category: Web & Early Blog

After software, the most important tool to a hacker is probably his office. Big companies think the function of office space is to express rank. But hackers use their offices for more than that: they use their office as a place to think in. And if you’re a technology company, their thoughts are your product.

Continue reading →

I’ve been getting some questions about these topics lately and learning a lot about it myself, so I decided to put some information together in a post. Do you like reading this site? Do you come here regularly? If so, you may want to consider using a news reader (aggregator) to receive updates from all

Continue reading →

Hey tough-guy! Not hardcore? Want to pretend you are so you fit in at Burning Man? Maybe you want to get inked, but are scared it will hurt. Or you like the idea of tattoos but don’t know what you want to get. Maybe you’re afraid of catching Hep C from the tattoo needle. Well

Continue reading →

I’d love to come up with a comprehensive list of sites that are weblog search engines, directories, listings, trackers, and major aggregation points. Here’s the group so far. Blogarama, Blogdex, Bloglines, Blogsnow, Blogstreet, Blogwise, Daypop, Feedster, Globe of Blogs, Popdex, Technocrati, Waypath If you know any I’m missing please leave a comment. I’d love to

Continue reading →

Lots of you are probably already involved and helping out, but for those of you who aren’t, we’re in the process of breathing some life back into *spark-online. We’re really early in the game so far, but here are a couple highlights. + We’ve selected WordPress as our publishing platform.+ We’ve begun to port the

Continue reading →

The following assertions were collected from public statements made by George W. Bush and his official spokesmen since 1997. Originally from Harper’s Magazine, May 2004. The President of the United States is not a fact-checker. I’m not a statistician. I’m not a numbers-cruncher. I’m not one of these bean counters. I’m not very analytical. I’m

Continue reading →

McSweeney’s lists crack me up. Here’s a couple of a favorites and a link to the archives. Titles of B-Movie Westerns That Give the Impression the West was Wilder Than Previously Imagined Three in a Saddle My Pal Trigger Under the Tonto Rim Pirates of the Prairie Pals of the Saddle Law of the Lash

Continue reading →

I have such great friends. Knowing that my company has recently been acquired and that likely that will mean the end of a job I’ve really enjoyed… my friends have started to rally and help me find a great new job. Here’s one I received from someone who was very well intentioned, but must not

Continue reading →

Yeah… I build my webpages for like 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution. Heh!

Continue reading →

Here are a few of my favs… check Tara’s site for the latest and greatest. Adorable ski-bunny needs someone to keep me warm. I don’t really snowboard, but look how cute I am in this furry vest! Besides, snowboarders have all the good weed hook-ups. – xxx Exotic beauty wants someone who can love me

Continue reading →

Of the world’s 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now corporations and 49 are countries.

Continue reading →

I didn’t even think of selling my Gmail invites on eBay. I still have 2 available and would be happy to share with friends. Especially since they aren’t going for $100 bucks a piece anymore. *smirk*

Continue reading →

I spent this weekend and Monday lounging around the Northern California coastline with my best friend Donald. He and I have been buddies since we were about 7 years old and played on a kiddie soccer team together. He’s in WAY better shape than my sorry ass and he totally ran circles around me on

Continue reading →

I’ve been told I’m hard to shop for. I’ve never been able to figure this out… ’cause to me it feels more like I want *everything*. I think the real problem is that the people buying me stuff don’t approve of getting me the things I like/want. Regardless, I’ve put together a Wish List over

Continue reading →

Making up new words is so much fun. Check out some of my favorites from DailyCandy… blamestorming:(n.) A meeting whose sole purpose is to discuss why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible. drimming:(v.) Drunk instant-messaging. fifty-footer:(n.) Someone who looks really attractive from 50 feet away. Closer examination reveals …mouse

Continue reading →

Well, I finally saw return of the king last night. I thought it was (predictably) great, and I (predictably) kicked myself for having not seeing it on the big screen. I’ll probably watch it again tonight so I can see all the parts I missed while Melissa was chatting, cheering, crying etc. Tonight when I

Continue reading →

My buddies have a little non-profit fundraising group called Debauchery for Donations and they’re pulling together a great benefit party this weekend call Spring Bling to benefit Big Bam; an organization that provides medical services to women who experience age, financial or cultural barriers that prevent detection and treatment of breast cancer. Team Debauchery (Aaron

Continue reading →

This is not a politcal blog or activism website. I don’t have an agenda, but I do have a problem with the way we are running our international affairs. Specifically, I think we are loosing the war in Iraq. America hasn’t made friends of the Iraqi people.In the poll, 80 percent of the Iraqis questioned

Continue reading →

Google launched a cool new service called Gmail. I’ve landed a beta account and it seems pretty hot. You get 1000megs of space vs. MSN Hotmails 2megs making it an actually useful mailbox. It’s pretty interesting how it turns back and forth barrage of short emails into threads or ‘conversations’. It also takes advantage of

Continue reading →