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18
April
2007

Gun Laws

I thought I’d write a little bit about how I experienced the news of the “Virginia Tech Massacre”, as the media likes to call it now. It noticed that the story was topping Google News on Monday evening, and I read a little about it. On Tuesday morning, I got up early and [...]

7
April
2007

Social Bookmarking and Viral Internet Memes

With 1337 hits at the time of this writing1, my most popular post for the month of March was one that I made on December 5, 2006, with almost all of the content being pasted from my clipboard.

22
March
2007

Alive in Baghdad

I just wanted to turn you on to my new favorite video blog: Alive in Baghdad.

15
March
2007

Laptop Prank

A friend sent this to me in a chain mail. I’ve got nothing better to talk about today, so I’ll share it here. Not to brag, but I’m having to translate it from Spanish to English.

14
March
2007

Podcasting and Bittorrent Unite

For a couple years now, I’ve been keeping up to date with American television via a technology called BitTorrent. I can usually have an episode of an hour-long program like 24, House, or Prison Break (my three favs at the moment) downloaded by lunch time the day after they air in the US.

28
February
2007

That Al Gore Movie

I just watched An Inconvenient Truth. I had been avoiding it because I knew how it would depress me. But after it won two Oscars, I figured the time had come.

27
February
2007

Overton Window

Today, during my morning headline perusal (RSS killed the newspaper), after a few clicks, I came upon this blog entry:

3
February
2007

Illuminati

I just watched a “documentary” about the Illuminati. Allegedly, a secret society is controlling all of the US and Britain. Every president since JFK has a masonic member.

14
December
2006

Stumble In Moderation

After an abnormally prolific blogging week last week, as Hubbers so cleverly pointed out, I have nothing to say this week. So I decided to play with old content. I knew that my Moderation Proof post back in August still had some capacity to interest the masses, despite the lackluster response it got [...]

5
December
2006

Whois Spam

I had no idea that this form of spam existed.
I ran “whois amazon.com”, and got this:

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