Remember when Ralphie beat the crap out of Scut Farkus in A Christmas Story? It sort of felt like that. By 1:00 AM on Wednesday, January 18th, 3.03% of all tweets contained “SOPA” in one form or another, up from 0.16% on Tuesday (and 0.04% on Sunday) during the same hour. Reddit locked up its […]
Read MoreSo I’ve never really been into the New Year’s Resolution thing. For the last handful of years, I’ve always just made my New Year’s Resolution to not make any New Year’s Resolutions the next year. (Which, of course, I broke every year by making the same resolution.) But I’ve been thinking about it and have […]
Read MoreIt’s bottling day! After almost two weeks of sitting and watching my West Coast Pale Ale bubble and bubble (and bubble), bottling day has finally arrived. I’m hoping that everything went alright with the fermenting process, being as this is my first batch I have no reference as to if I did everything right or […]
Read MoreRemember when you were in school, and the first day back from Summer vacation you had to write an essay about what you did over the summer. I always hated doing that. So why am I doing it now for my Christmas Vacation when (1) I hated doing that and (2) I didn’t really have […]
Read MoreEvery year since 2006, IBM has released a list of five predictions for the next five years. So, what’s on this year’s list? Well, in a quick summary: Kinetic motion wasted by things like walking or biking will be captured and used to, say, charge your cell phone. Passwords will be a thing of the […]
Read MoreHot off the press! WordPress for Android released version 2.0 earlier today. I’m giving it a bit of a workout right now writing this post. The Great – This was originally just going to have a good and bad sections, but I can’t in fairness just call the new features just “good.” I really love […]
Read MoreSo a Google employee, Kenton Varda, has apparently build a home for himself, and designed it to be able to host the ultimate LAN party, complete with 12 gaming stations (separated into two rooms for team play). The stations themselves only contain a monitor with a mouse and keyboard, while the actual computers are housed […]
Read MoreYep, you heard me correct: My tweets are going to be in the Library of Congress. Actually, your tweets will be in there too, as well as every other public tweet sent since the beginning of Twitter-Time. The Library of Congress and Twitter have made an agreement that they will all be put into the […]
Read MoreWell, it has been a long time since I blogged personally, and even when I have before I’ve never seemed to stick with it for very long. (Now, that’s an opening line that really makes you want to read on, huh?) For some odd reason, I feel compelled to start again. Spent most of my […]
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