Monthly Archives: January 2008

My Dark Past

There is something I have to get off my chest. There is a skeleton in my closet. Actually, it’s in the sea.
Let me continue.
A few years ago just outside Anacortes, Washington, I met a few friends for good times and laughs. Things turned ugly quickly.

A simple discussion about music was [...]

Site5: “Don’t Tunnel”

After a long email exchange, I learned that site5 doesn’t allow tunneling. I tried to tunnel HTTP traffic destined for jolma.org to my laptop over ssh (for testing facebook apps) but ran into a bunch of issues. It turns out that they explicitly disallow this.
Is there another inexpensive web host that is less [...]

Zuckerberg on 60 Minutes

Two thoughts:

He was very evasive and didn’t exactly warm up. Looks like this was to promote Facebook to an older audience rather than a personal fluff piece.
What happened to his trademark Adidas sandals? He is now sporting loafers instead.

Life in a Time Shifted World

Tivo and other time shifting devices are great. I can watch my favorite television programming, for example, at my convenience and without (most) commercials. The major weakness I have encountered, however, is the human element.
I’ll stop being abstract. I watch football on my Tivo because it allows me to skip however many [...]