Archive for September, 2007

Why you should give Noel $11.11. Right now.

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

As some of you may have heard, on 7/7/2007 my buddy noneck Noel embarked on an audacious (outlandish?) seven month trip to each of the seven contents (getting the theme?). Back when we suffering in a past job together, I encouraged Noel’s scheming about this trip, never thinking he’d actually do it. And […]

How to: A $2,000 New York City Wedding

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

So, as I mentioned before, Lizz and I got married on July 13th. We organized our wedding in less than 5 days for a budget of under $2,000 and managed to exceed our expectations in every way. So here’s our guide for how to do a wedding on the cheap in NYC:

Keep your party […]

Take My Books

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Following up on my free techie books post, wherein I realize I’m keeping a bunch of heavy atoms in my orbit I’d be more free without, I’ve finally decided to seriously break up with my books. This is really part of a much longer process that began the first time I had to move, […]

Hey, I know that guy! Baghdad art, BookTour.com, Benetech

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

I spent some time in the kitchen and yard today, being all domestic and catching up on podcasts that had piled up in my queue and had the experience of “running into” three different people I’ve met at various points.
Lastly was my friend Dave Enders’ piece on Studio 360 about Baghdad’s only art […]

Nerdy Sunday: Twisted Facebook IM with AIR in the Elastic Cloud?

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Today I stumbled into AirApps, an index of apps using the Adobe AIR platform, which reminded me of this TechQuila Shots post describing an idea for a desktop IM client based on the Facebook API (your Facebook friends are your “buddies” and the client is a Facebook app). Pretty simple, pretty brilliant. I […]

Free Techie Books

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

I’m planning to part with a bunch of my tech books I never refer to, either because they’re out of date, not relevant to anything I do or plan to do, I’ve “absorbed” them, or I have a better resource … So, if you want one of these, let me know. You must either […]

From the dead…

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

So it’s been awhile. I blame Twitter. And getting married (I’m married!). And summer. And work. But I’m back. Going to try to start writing more here. I’ve been writing a lot of email, blog/forum posts and even some tweets that should be here. More soon.