Bored at work, well I’m not, but I did take a second to try this stupid thing, and it turns out it’s kind of interesting. Give it a shot, and remember, I never promised you all of my posts would be entertaining!
While sitting at your desk, raise your right foot off the [...]

I found this inspirational post on Lifehack once about losing 50 pounds in 3 months, and I’ve had it bookmarked ever since.  It seems to promote 10 positive steps to loose weight that are sensible and attainable.  Perhaps I’ll give this a go sometime soon, even though I only want to loose 15-20 pounds (hello?  [...]

Put this in the ‘post it here so I won’t forget it’ section, here I show how to use cdrecord to burn an ISO from the commandline. When I download an ISO I hate having to open the cdburning program and get everything configured to burn, I’d rather shoot off a one liner, that’s [...]

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.”
“If I had no sense of humor, I [...]

Does anyone have any CDN experience they’d like to share?  At my gig we need to move about 80-100GB of files to another provider, because we’re serving up ~8.5GB/day, and it’s killing our internal bandwidth. (yes, we’re going to segment this soon) We’ve considered things as basic as GoDaddy, but at 6.99$/month that has to [...]

I’ve gotten my pictures online from my San Francisco trip.  The city was everything I always hoped it would be, and I really loved it there.  I had the opportunity to meet with diverse people that all intersect with various aspects of my job (now being refered to as my career).  From The Moore Foundation [...]

So while I realize this won’t be of interest to the majority of people out there, to me it’s very cool (something I would even blog about!)  So I’m in San Francisco last week meeting with developers and programmers from a variety of backgrounds; web 2.0 start-ups, .com verterans, non-profit and academic folk alike.  We’re [...]

Haven’t we seen this before?

clipped from www.mumbaimirror.com

bloxtr.com

Tired of lugging that heavy laptop around? Today’s Web site lets you take your computing online, and access it from anywhere. Bloxtr is completely free, and offers a familiar Windows-like interface; complete with an office suite, games, and accessories.

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Don’t have a laptop? Try the [...]

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Heading out today for Woods Hole, MA - it’s supposed to be beautiful (expect pictures on my grossly underused flickr account). I’m representing the Biodiversity Heritage Library in a meeting with the Encyclopedia of Life folks as we discuss standardizing data streams for upcoming sharing of data. It may not sound [...]

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

 Props to Cofano for pointing this out and making Infomercial Hell a new favorite site of mine.

Below is a matrix of 120 stars, I have already added a link to my blog onto oneof the stars, all you need to do is copy and paste the grid into your blog and add your own link to one of the other spare stars, and tell others to do the same!
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So I got (another) new job, which I started last week. Sharp readers may recall I just started a new job back in January, but you have to keep in mind, I’m a contractor. Part of the deal of being a contractor is that the company get’s to “try it before you buy it”, allowing [...]

On this, the anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, there’s an important article by some truthout guest contributors titled The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV. It covers King’s under reported life from 1965-1968 when he was assassinated. After the civil rights bills were passed in 64 and 65 [...]