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Updated Travel Map
I should probably blog at some point about all the travel I’ve done over the past couple of years – Cabo San Lucas, Alaska, Costa Rica, Vail, Key West, London and Costa Rica to name a few. In the meantime, … Continue reading
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Moved my blog to WordPress (and upgraded it to 3.0)
About a year(!) back, I moved my blog from Community Server 2007 to WordPress. I did this since upgrading to newer versions of Community Server on a shared-hosting GoDaddy account was next to impossible. After reading through probably two dozen … Continue reading
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The decline of PC gaming
Interesting discussion I read on Kotaku a few weeks back about what ails PC Gaming: http://kotaku.com/5206876/what-ails-the-worlds-biggest-gaming-platform As a former PC gamer (the Quake series, Age of X series), I moved to the xbox about 4 years back and never looked … Continue reading
My mini-review of Digsby
As I mentioned in another post, I have contacts I care about on just about every IM protocol. Since an open instant messaging protocol is still a bit of a pipe-dream, I have to rely on multi-protocol messenger clients. I’ve … Continue reading
Keeping in touch while on the go
I was on vacation in India for the past 4 weeks with varying levels of internet access. I carried a laptop and my iPhone with me, but given the limited time I could spend on the Internet each day, I … Continue reading
Anti-Capitalista
A Photo of Yiannis Bournous from the The Power of One exhibit at Bumbershoot. The Power of One featured shot of individuals who made an impact on society and the theme was heavily biased against Globalization and Capitalism. The irony … Continue reading
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PowerShell script to download the XKCD archive
Since I’m a big fan of XKCD (and of PowerShell), I wrote a PowerShell script to download the entire XKCD archive. It’s not the most elegant script and to save time I re-used the Get-Webfile function from http://poshcode.org/417, but I … Continue reading
Did the blogosphere kill Slashdot?
A long long time ago, in an Internet far far way, in an age before Scoble, before Digg, before blogs and RSS, before Wikipedia and yes, even before Google, there was Slashdot. At a time where I poked around on … Continue reading
Another mid-summer update
There must be something about summer in Seattle that slows my blogging down. It’s been almost 3 months since I wrote anything at all. Looking through my blog I also noticed that I my blogging frequency was low most of … Continue reading
LinkedIn for Companies
In the otherwise copycat world of Social Networking, it’s interesting to see LinkedIn do something new: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/20/linkedin-now-for-companies-2/ On Friday morning they will launch company profile pages that partly serve as fact sheets for about 160,000 companies and partly serve to reveal … Continue reading