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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Coffee Beans
By Sande Wendt
January 3, 2009
It doesn’t happen often but every once and awhile someone entrusts me with a living thing they care about. As a semi-successful mom, you’d think someone would ask me to
watch their kids for a while, but it’s always more on the line of cats, dogs, bean plants. And they all [...]
Top 5 Goals for 2009
Sunday, November 16th, 2008Plan 09 from Johnmwillis.com
Typically around this time of year folks start thinking about what their goals are for the next year. Not me, I am usually thinking about College Football’s national champion and what I am going to get for Christmas. However, this year things have changed a little bit and since my [...]
GirlInYourShirt: $75 Buys Your Startup Marketing For A Day
Friday, November 14th, 2008I just couldn’t resist… Here is the article and here is my comment.
Here are some other silly stories if you liked that one.
UPDATE: I decded to take the GirleInYourShirt people down. Here is a new service called YourOnMyFedora.
Nick the IT Plumber
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Like Joe, Nick can make $200k+ on a good year. Even though Nick lives comfortably, he doesn’t mind sharing a little of his wealth. In fact when Nick received that silly $600 tax rebate check from GW he spit on it, cashed it, and then sent the money to his favorite charity. The thing is, [...]
On the Eighth Day God Created the Vox Continental
Thursday, July 10th, 2008When you are in your car and “Light My Fire” from the Doors comes on the radio do you turn up the volume? Do you go into an uncontrollable fit ever you hear “96 Tears”? Is “House of the Rising Sun” the only song you a brave enough to sing via Karaoke? [...]
The last time I was in London
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008A little over a two years ago I thought about joining forces with a UK based Tivoli provider called Orb-Data. I flew out on a Thursday morning from JFK at about 8am and arrived the same day at about 7pm local London time. I love those kind of same day flights. On that Friday I [...]
Observations From a Big City
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008I am in New York City this week and I always like to have a little fun at this great city’s expense.
All out of townies should be required to have a compass and a map when riding the subway. This way they will know what exit to proceed to when they leave the subway [...]
Is Everyone an aaS?
Monday, June 23rd, 2008There has been a lot of name calling among cloud vendors and a lot of cloud vendors have been calling other vendors aaSs by defining them into three specific categories. They seem to be making an aaS of themselves in the process. In my opinion trying to fit all cloud vendors [...]
Off-Topic: Man V Wild
Saturday, April 5th, 2008Hint: In the world according to Jon Krakauer, wild always wins.
Last night I made the huge mistake of watching “Into the Wild” in my hotel room. I should have read the book first. I really like Krakauer’s other books, “Into Thin Air” and “Under the Banner of Heaven”, and I was convinced by [...]
Top 10 Do’s and Dont’s in NYC
Friday, March 28th, 2008Don’t eat at McDonalds when you are in NYC.
Do eat at Smith and Wollensky’s Bar and Grill Side (Ask for George we played in a Rock Band in High School together).
Don’t ask subway attendants any questions; they will just stare at you.
Do say, “Hi” to people when walking down the street. After the initial shock, [...]
Operation Dumbo Drop – An Easter Egg Hunt Gone Wild
Monday, March 24th, 2008In this particular case, the “Dumbo” was not an elephant. The “Dumbo” this Saturday was the well-intentioned idiot(s) who set up operation EggDrop in Cartersville, Georgia. The idea behind the Cartersville EggDrop was to replace the old boring egg hunt with a helicopter dropping 10k Easter eggs onto a small section of a football field. [...]
Hookernomics vs. Freakonmics
Friday, March 14th, 2008Why do Hookers live with their parents?
I guess I find it mildly ironic that valleywag.com would be making fun of a person like Sudhir Venkatesh. In the grand scheme of things making fun of Scobel and Arrington really doesn’t really amount to a hill of beans. However, when Melissa Gira Grant commenting on Sudhir Venkatesh [...]
Phony PHD’s – Wasup
Friday, March 14th, 2008I could possibly see why someone would get a fake degree, but a phony PHD, that’s really pushing it. In the end, why bother going to the trouble and why not just lie about the whole thing in the first place. A while back I was doing some research on diploma mills and [...]
My Kids Run Linux and I Don’t – Wasup
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Pistachio
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008There are times in history when a certain event just has to be documented no matter how obscure it might seem. This event occurred last Saturday evening at BarcampAustin III, and it just simply needs an historical footprint. The stage is set with a karaoke band called Karaoke Apocalypse (KA). [...]
BarCampAustin III – Bot Eats Air Conditioner – Bot’s Gone Wild
Sunday, March 9th, 2008No Country for Old IT Guys – Ontario
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Top Ten Reasons for This Photo
Friday, February 29th, 2008Let me set the stage for this slide show. A customer was involved in a long and intense beta program and, as a reward, the vendor sent six mugs in an unpacked box. Only three of the six survived.
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One Drupal Per Child
Friday, February 29th, 2008This is a very cool article on how to install Drupal on an XO (OLPC).
Building Open Source Applications for OLPC with Drupal
Top 10 Worst Captchas
Saturday, February 16th, 2008Don’t you just love Captchas? CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing Test.” Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” I just call them PITA (pain in the ass). Here are my top 10 worst Captcha’s ever.
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