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What I’ve been listening to Jan 2010

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

I thought I would share what I've been listening to recently.  Between the no-fi of the Japandroids and Wavves to the Dubstep of Black Chow and Darkstar, I have a feeling that this list might not appeal to everyone, but there are some good ones on there.

Purple Smoke – Black Chow (5:Five Years of Hyperdub) 
Wet [...]

What the World Looked Like 10 Years Ago Today

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Foreign Policy has a reall interesting pice about what was going on today (Dec 29th) in 1999.  Looking back on it it looks almost like a different world. Some examples:

Something called Inktomi was the world’s largest search engine.
Everybody was clamoring for the new file-sharing program Napster
llinois State Senator Barack Obama campaigned for a spot in [...]

Counting cash around the world [video]

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

I saw this video today and it is really interesting. There seems to be some debate about how accurate the video is. The connecencous of most of the commenters that I’ve seen seems to be that this is a pretty broad generalzation and not completely accurate. But alot were say that they had either seen [...]

The best thing I’ve read all day

Friday, December 4th, 2009

I weep for you if this makes you laugh as hard as it made me laugh…
 
… Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and Russian hackers pwn your webapp. Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living. HTML and [...]

Testing Posterous

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Tap tap tap…
…is this thing on?
via This isn't happiness http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thisisnthappiness/~3/SM-LOkGDItU/263699137
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The Final Word On The Swine Flu

Monday, May 4th, 2009

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Federal Cyberattacks Soared in 2008 [IT Security]

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

USA Today has in interesting article today on the increasing number of cyberattacks on government networks over the last year.  According to the article :
Federally tracked accounts of unauthorized access to government computers and installations of hostile programs rose from a combined 3,928 incidents in 2007 to 5,488 in 2008, based on data provided to [...]

Please excuse the mess

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

OK, I think that I’ve managed to get everything back up and running. It all looks different bu I’m pretty happy with the layout. Something got HOSED with the RSS feed though so if you subscribe via a feedreader (and you really should, some of this stuff is pure genius:) )   I would re-subscribe. Here’s [...]

Under Construction

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

I’m redoing the site so please pardon all the bits laying around.  Hopefully I will be up and running in the next couple of days. The rest of the site is still intact so it you are looking for something it is proabably still here.

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Autumn So Far

Friday, October 24th, 2008

I was just upgrading my Wordpress install to the newest release and I realized that I haven’t posted in 20+ days. Yikes!  I’ve just been so busy that I haven’t gotten around to it. The good news is that I’ve been working on some cool projects that I hope to be able to share in [...]