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Well,I finally bit the bullet and did a complete from the ground rebuild of the site.  This involved exporting the database, wiping all the databases (I’ve acquired several after all the incarnations of this site) wiping all the files after a backup and then reinstalling and importing the database into a fresh database install.  All [...]

MacAfee has published a interesting look into the most dangerous search terms on the web. Most people know that searching for porn or cracked programs will inevitably lead you to sites that will try to steal your information via phishing or some sort of malware. The interesting thing about this report is that those [...]

The worst part is that the top 3 hits on Google for “sean lavelle sucks” are a post on this blog, this blog’s front page and then my resume.  Having a low self esteem moment…

Vanity Fair has a great article on Iceland’s current economic troubles. It’s long, but very informative and entertaining. To put our financial crisis in perspective, Iceland’s debt is 850% of it’s GDP and the stock market fell 85%. Although it has nothing to do with the financial crisis, this was by far my favorite line:
Because [...]

One of the reasons I love Twitter so much is that it is so extensible. You can use it to accomplish a ton of tasks with almost no work on your part. Recently, several friends had of mine had joined Twitter and asked about how I do some things. I thought it might be beneficial [...]

This blew my mind. As part of a performance art project last year La Machine created a giant mechanical spider that paraded through Liverpool as part of the city’s Capital of Culture year. Named La Princesse, it looks like something out of a movie. As always Boston.com’s the Big Picture has amazing shots by Peter [...]

I’m having a hard time getting around to writing. It’s been busy at work and I’ve been suffering a lack of motivation.  I have run across a couple of articles that I would like to share though.
Giant killers: macropredation in lions
The Lions of Savuti work in large packs to hunt and kill elephants. Fascinating behavior [...]

It’s been almost 9 months since I started using Twitter and it’s kind of been a revelation. I was looking at my old post back when I first joined and laughed when I saw how skeptical that I was that I was going to find it at all useful. As it stands now, Twitter is [...]

Barry Ritholtz sez,
In doing the research for the “Bailout Nation” book, I needed a way to put the dollar amounts into proper historical perspective.If we add in the Citi bailout, the total cost now exceeds $4.6165 trillion dollars.
People have a hard time conceptualizing very large numbers, so let’s give this some context. The current Credit [...]

Thanks to Peter from “this isn’t happiness” for the hook up.