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I’m planning to part with a bunch of my tech books I never refer to, either because they’re out of date, not relevant to anything I do or plan to do, I’ve “absorbed” them, or I have a better resource … So, if you want one of these, let me know.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

Play it Safe!

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

I made a Pando package of the “Play it Safe, Vol. 4″ mp3 posted on the WFMU blog. It’s a 43 minute long record published in 1972 design to play looped to sound like people were home. So so strange. If you want to get this via p2p goodness, get it […]

Even More on Automatic Download Initiation

Monday, November 20th, 2006

I should probably be updating you all on the crazy long weekend I had. I saw many Michigan friends, drank a lot, started a company, cooked a new dish. But that must wait. Today I discovered yet another approach to automatically initiating a software download. This time, from Google Earth. […]

Autumn in New York / Autumn in Detroit

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Lizz and I moved to Brooklyn (alternate map). After scheduling complications with the paint store and the movers, we’re finally in the apartment. It’s going to take a couple weeks before we’re comfortably settled.
In the interim, this picture from detroitblog sums up the state of the city pretty well:

Michigan Online Learning Requirement: Dumb?

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Ars Technica recently put up an article about Michigan’s new “online learning” requirement.

In addition to requiring that all high school students complete courses in advanced algebra, chemistry, and even foreign languages, legislation signed into law by the governor will also see that all students take a least one “online learning course” or participate in an […]

Resolution: Stay Home

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

I sent (a slightly more detailed version of) this email to my coworkers this morning.  Aren’t I hilarious?
Whereas, most of the staff is out of the of office today; and
Whereas, the Windows PCs available to run Access are slow as hell; and
Whereas, the fastest available Windows PC reboots at random intervals; and
Whereas, my 3 year […]

Gmail Outage

Monday, March 27th, 2006

So GMail appears to be down for me this afternoon; I’m getting “error code 704″ when logging in to my primary account (other accounts on the same computer work fine). It isn’t clear who, if anyone, I can report this to, nor where I might receive a report on the status of the service. […]

Traveling in March, SXSW and Michigan

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

I’m getting excited to head out for Austin (for the second time this year!) for SXSW Interactive next week. Shortly thereafter, I’ll be heading to Michigan for a quick weekend trip to attend my cousin’s baby shower and wrap up some Ann Arbor loose ends (so if you want to hang out sometime on […]

Where is Google Going?

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Rob emailed me all excited about Google Pages, Google’s new easy-to-use web page publishing tool. It’s sort of a geocities 2.0 — a place for free hosting of simple sites consisting of a few pages, but with easier to use and more powerful web page creation tools. Nothing earth shattering.
What got me excited when […]