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General Discussion

  • 2010 in review

    The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Minty-Fresh™. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers.… Continue reading

  • Net Neutrality

    With the recent release this winter of the movie Tron: Legacy, I only saw it fitting to contrast some of the conflicting nature in the “Net Neutrality” bill that was recently passed by the FCC with the themes prevalent in… Continue reading

  • Thoughts on Wikileaks

    Prior to the recent major events surrounding the release of 250k classified documents by Wikileaks on Julian Assange authority, I had browsed Wikileaks and discovered rarely any information that provided anything more than “tabloid style” unverified references as proof of… Continue reading

  • Facebook is down!

    As of approx. October 6, 12:30 AM EST GMT -5 Facebook HTTP services seemed to have gone down. Ping tests were successful during this time, however, attempts to load the website resulted in timeouts. More updates tomorrow morning after some… Continue reading

  • Why Geeks Should Love the iPad

    After reading a similarly titled article on Forbes, I was inspired to write a counter-argument. The author of the Forbes article implies that the stringent security of the iPad and this line of Apple products is limiting users freedom to… Continue reading

  • The Truth About Microsoft

    I must admit, I haven’t been the largest fan of Microsoft products and policies. (With the exclusion of Visual Studio and the .NET and XNA platforms.. and Silverlight and Excel…) However, it’s very easy to jump on the “anti-MS bandwagon”… Continue reading

  • The “Iron man interface”

    While researching some technical and design patents, I stumbled across a very cool/interesting little patent reminiscent of something you might see in one of the recent “Iron Man” movies. Although “Tony Stark”, especially in his latest installment, is working with… Continue reading

  • OAuth

    Possible new standard in website logins, esp. or at least initially in social networking applications. One unified login shared across multiple sites.: The 1.0 spec: http://oauth.net/core/1.0a/ Official draft spec. pending IESG approval before publication as an RFC. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-oauth-10 Wiki Article:… Continue reading

  • Welcome

    I first created this blog around Summer of 2008. Almost two years later, I have decided to populate some activity. My goal is to share my thoughts and ideas with the hope that something original or at least insightful will… Continue reading