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From the Interesting People mailing list: Recent comments about how we live in dangerous and chilling times (after 9/11) should be seen in perspective to 1968, when: - 25000 American soldiers had been killed in 3 years of the Vietnam...

I use the excellent Codetek VirtualDesktop Pro. Without it I think I'd have gone totally insane ages ago. Some days, however, I think it contributes to my encroaching insanity. Nobody should have this many apps and windows open at...

One night about a week before leaving for the ETech Conference/Digital Democracy Teach-In, and just after having spent some time hanging out with the very cool Dean For America gang, I caught "Field of Dreams" playing on late-night television. I...

Equal footing of social standing on a level playing field is a pipe dream; one that if you smoke too much from will blind you to the malcreants who will take advantage of your torpor to hoist themselves above you....

James Duncan Davidson puts it best: What do you always have with you? Phone. Wallet. Keys. The mobile phone is starting to become a life recorder. It's ubiquitous. The home computer is the trusted log device. And the web provides...

This morning, out of the blue, old buddy Michel IMs me this: i had a friend who had a cool idea for something that'd be kinda like friendster, but for books, music and dvds and stuff. so basically a group...

It is becoming more and more clear that I may have a bit of a "substance dependance" situation. Over my two weeks in California, I barely drank alcohol and rarely smoked any cigarettes. While at ETech, and again in San...

Decided to drop in on Friendster for the first time in weeks. Was greeted by this... In the next few weeks, we will be introducing changes to the system to improve site performance. If all goes according to plan, Friendster...

Sitting down for lunch on the last day of the ETech conference in San Diego, I pull out my mobile to find it is turned off. It's been off for at least two days. Damn. I have a hunch that...

Grey Tuesday It's time for music fans to stand up and demand change from the music industry's copyright cartel. Tuesday, February 24 will be a day of coordinated civil disobedience: websites will post Danger Mouse's Grey Album on their site...

First upload to my gallery of California trip pictures. Will do more when i get back home. Stage two of the road trip (Los Angeles to San Francisco) involved almost plunging into the Pacific off of Highway 1 numerous times,...

San Diego to Los Angeles Adventure. Too tired to explain but here are some keywords to tide us over: Soli, VW van, flat tire, blocked credit cards, Sunset Strip, Gouge and Reluca's appartment. We laughed, we cried....

(See previous entry's picture.) An extremely strong urge when surrounded by laptops is to look over at your neighbor's Desktops and read their notes, emails, IMs......

California ballroom sprinkled by a light spring rain. The tap tap tap of a hundred keyboards typing....

Sunny, warm. Nice. :)...

Free Wi-Fi in the Dorval Airport.. I mean "Pierre Elliott Trudeau" Airport......

Tomorrow, all members of my immediate family will be airborne. My mother back home to Tampa, from Caracas. My sister and nephew to meet her in Tampa. And of course me to San Diego. Weird....

I'm sitting here trying to plan which panels and sessions I'm thinking of attending at ETech next week and it is a huge pain in the ass. Not the "choosing what to attend" part. The planning part. Sure there's a...

It seems to me that the prizefight between mass media and "weblogs" has now begun in ernest. Some have been debating the "weblogs versus journalism" conundrum, and the use of weblogs and "social software" in political campaigning has garnered much...

I was gonna write an entry today about how bored i am but Phillip Torrone has given me something to be excited about again. That's twice now... I think I'm gonna owe him! the portable geek gym... i was told...