From the monthly archives:

May 2008

On Getting Robbed

May 28, 2008 · 46 comments

Those of you following my Twitter account will know that my house was robbed early in the morning on Memorial day. Nothing of mine was actually taken but the three guys that broke in assaulted my roommate and stole his MacBook among other things. Read his blog post for the full story. [click to continue…]

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Last year I reviewed the Vudu set-top movies box and noted how it changed the way I watched movies. Instead of having any preconceived idea about what I wanted to watch, I would just plop down in front of the TV and find something with the Vudu. Taking that as a segue, the Dash Express has changed the way I commute. Rather than [click to continue…]

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Back when I wrote Startup 101: Tools for the Job, I had briefly mentioned Campfire by 37signals but had not gotten around to using it for Skribit. In the last month or two, things have changed completely as we have not only begun using Campfire but made it our primary form of communication and how we work. I’m not alone either. Telecommuting web professionals such as those involved with ENTP [click to continue…]

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Startup Riot 2008, painstakingly organized by Sanjay Parekh, went down yesterday and I must say this was the first big tech event in Atlanta that I have been to or heard about. There have been some tech events by the Technology Association of Georgia and SoCon 08 but nothing as in touch with the local tech community as Startup Riot has ever graced Atlanta. [click to continue…]

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For the past few days, 17 universities throughout North America have been striving to come out on top in the final competition of a four year program. Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility is a competition setup by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors to teach real-world engineering skills [click to continue…]

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How To: Surf Securely with an SSH Tunnel

May 16, 2008

By the time most people read this post I will have stayed in three different hotels in New York, New Jersey and Maryland while trekking along with Challenge X teams for their final competition. That means I have had a chance to glance through several terms of service agreements for various hotel internet

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First Impressions: RescueTime

May 14, 2008

I recently started using RescueTime after hearing about it countless times on Hacker News. Simply put, RescueTime is like Google Analytics for your time. It automatically tracks where you spend your time while computing and helps you become more productive by

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California Trip Pictures

May 12, 2008

Similar to how I published photos of the companies I visited during my last trip to the valley, I have some new photos to share from my recent trip. During the week I was in California I visited San Francisco, then rented a car and drove to San Diego, Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo [...]

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Putting an End to MacBook Air Core Shutdown

May 11, 2008

Macbook Air owners know what I’m talking about – the dreaded core shutdown. When the MacBook Air gets too hot, there is a built-in thermal shutdown feature that turns off one of the two cores in the Core 2 Duo Intel processor found in the MacBook Air. The problem is that one of the cores [...]

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Review: Summize Twitter Search

May 9, 2008

Summize, a company I am quite familiar with following my review of their review aggregator product, has substantially changed their company direction since I have last been in touch with them. They are now focusing on a Twitter search tool – so much so that it is their main product and the review aggregator has [...]

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Vacation Notice

May 1, 2008

I just wrapped up my final exams for this semester on Wednesday and will soon be boarding a flight to San Francisco for a week of vacation filled with visiting friends and exploring California again among other things. I will probably have some downtime to write here but if not I thought I would put [...]

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