This is fairly mundane geek talk so if you’re not into this type of stuff, feel free to curse me and then head over to Cute Overload or something. Anyhoo, during a recent email list discussion (I KNOW! THEY STILL EXIST!!!) at my current job the question came up about developing a multipurpose web presence […]

If anyone follows me on Twitter or Facebook then they know that I started off my morning first by hating the fact that drinking the night before was an almost painful experience and second that I went to work out at 5:30 in the morning while there was nobody in the hotel gym. Oh, and […]

As we get Smashy.net up and running again you’ll see that we’re making a few changes. So far we’ve added two new categories: Food and Sports. We’ve also added author based RSS feeds. Why did we do that? Simple, we’re giving contributors the ability to cross post their content to any other site(s) that they […]

Facebook, Facebook, Facebook. Having dealt with online communities, trends and technology for approximately the past 20 years (egad!), I’m still amazed at how this application has connected me to so many people. However, before I continue with this post, let me toss a few truths out there and get them out of the way: I […]

There are things in this world that make you very, very humble. I take for granted that I can walk around and do all of the monotonous and stupid things that I do – drive, wash dishes, eat a burrito, brush my hair, point at an angry looking deer peering at me through the bushes. […]

As you may well have realized, smashy.net has been incommunicado for almost a year. It has been quite the experience. The original site used bblog. According to their site: NEWSFLASH: bBlog is dead! Long live bBlog! After a number of years of the bBlog project, with the last couple inactive, it is time to call […]

Christmas presents. Oy, oy, oy…what a horrible time of the year. I’m never good at finding and buying presents for people. It wasn’t until recently that I finished buying presents for my wife, Angela, and I spent a good part of the last few weeks trying to figure out a cool present to give her. […]

The tag line for Pedro Arzipe’s Port Sherry web comic is “When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man…”. The March 4, 2009 comic titled “The Obsolete Add-on” so deftly illustrates how far we’ve come with video games as well as how much we’ve lost.

I trap spam through my email using both Postini (the same tool used by Google) as well as Spam Assassin. Below is a list of the subjects of the messages which were trapped last night: Be the artist of love! Fill her up so tight Make a life-changing decision you will not regret, find out […]

Thank you for your patience during this station break… I always wondered what news anchors did during commercial breaks. If the clip doesn’t play, click the HQ button and then press play. Updating this was a pain because I thought I forgot to do a dump of the blog database and switched nameservers. Then I […]

I found the following website last night and, for some reason, it gave me weird dreams about anthropomorphising objects such as robots. When I get the chance, I’ll draw up the cartoon that kept haunting me and caused me to toss and turn for a good part of my sleepy time. The premise for Tweenbots […]

I like this ‘advert’ of sorts for Google Latitude.. It takes a nice simple video of Google employees and then gives the user a nice little pay off at the end. In my case, it was just a reminder of bodily functions: Google reminds us: Puzzy Farts. I went through and I was going to […]

The tag line for Pedro Arzipe’s Port Sherry web comic is "When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man…". The  March 4, 2009 comic titled "The Obsolete Add-on" so deftly illustrates how far we’ve come with video games […]

“[They] took 24 256GB Samsung MLC SSD’s and put them in RAID to make this awesome computer!” 😯 Holy moly that rocks. I mean, seriously. With the amount of stuff that I do that requires rendering, encoding, etc. that would be amazing. I wonder how much that would cost? Think of the possibilities! I would […]

When Angela and I went to the Spy Museum a few weekends ago we mulled around downtown DC for a bit as well. After lunch at the DC Chophouse, we decided to head home. As we were walking back to the parking garage we passed the ‘Crime & Punishment Museum’. The Crime & Punishment Museum […]

Robots have become an integral part of our society. They build cars, act as a sentry (South Korean | Metal Storm AWDS), Even though they are just a little ways away from becoming the ass kicking, bone crunching Terminators or Transformers they still manage to capture our imagination. We’ve seen movies like Metropolis, Blade Runner, […]

I realize that as I grow older my interests will become more and more narrow. It’s like that with every generation, isn’t it? It is the fundamental reason why old people hate the way young people dress, listen to music and behave. Ultimately I’ll be an old curmudgeon, sitting in my rocking chair at the […]

I was reading through Crunch Gear and came across Smittens – mittens for lovers. Oddly enough, these things are available through one of my favorite stores, Restoration Hardware. Ok, really? REALLY? Trust me, I love my wife, Angela, but if we were to ever use these things I would expect us to have matching outfits. […]

I have been sitting here, in front of my computer, for most of the day. Oh, sure, I’ve driven to work and back and played with the dogs. But I am slave to my computer. My game systems. My iPhone. Anything with a glowing screen and buttons. It has come to a point where I’ve […]

I was at home this weekend with Angela trying to sort out my media collection on our network. Wow. We’ve got quite a collection of…uh…stuff. It was a nice stroll down memory lane going through some of this. Especially when I hit the movie “Hackers”. It was interesting reliving some of the techno babble of […]

I’ve just started using this WordPress App for the iPhone and I think it is the bees knees. Previously, I would have either set up the blogs the I write for to accept posts by email or I would have to use the phone’s web browser. Using the browser was always a little bit of […]

Wow. I’m currently sitting here at my home office at around 10:30pm. Just as a heads up – I’m posting this from an iPhone app that I downloaded from Apple’s App Store. I think it is pretty amazing that I could do this using this interface. It saves a ton of transmission problems More soon! […]

Adobe Flash is starting to have to find different ways to leverage itself in the new web world. It used to be that you could create web pages with roll overs and simple effects and, more likely than not, it would require the Flash plug-in. However, the new crop of javascript libraries and various other […]

I have a problem with my iPhone. A BIG problem. It doesn’t work. Ok, it does work. Pretty decently, I must say. But the problem I’ve run into is that the weather is getting cold.  And I like listening to my iPhone on the Metro. But I’ve noticed that the cold weather and the iPhone […]

Well, Angela got her iPhone. She stood in line for 2 hours on Friday at the AT&T store where she said she was good riends with a sales person. When it was all said and done she came home…with nothing. She was #70 in line and they ran out much earlier. She was, to say […]

Someone, please help me. PLEASE. Especially if you work for Cingular, AT&T or Apple. Or even if you have a friend with sticky fingers or possibly deals in shady business practices out of the trunk of their car. Angela is driving me nuts with this iPhone obsession she has. Right now she’s already ‘shushed’ me […]

I lament the demise of the good ol’ fashioned telephone. So much so that I’ve set my ring tone to be ‘old fashion phone’. I really miss the old phones and I sometimes think that all this technology we’re using today has sort of taken away some of what made the telephone such a grand […]