Archive for October, 2006

Happy Halloween!

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Arthur’s Deep in the Heart of Texas, Jeremiah’s The Cry, Adrienne’s Clown

Trackbacks: The Real Blog Spam Problem

Monday, October 30th, 2006

If your WordPress blog is inundated with spam, try disabling Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.) in Options > Discussion.
My blog delightfully ran spam-free for years. Then suddenly, a tidal wave of comment spam hit. I installed Spam Karma, which prevented 100% of the comment spam from appearing on my blog.
However, Spam […]

Why I Vote

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

America is at a crisis state. The experiment of democracy is failing. I’m not being an alarmist, but I am unfortunately reactionary.
President Bush signed in two disturbing laws this month. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 allows the Presidency to suspend habeas corpus. Habeas corpus is a court preceeding that determines the legitimacy of a […]

Link: Apple Takes Larger Bite of Campus Market

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Harvard Crimson: Apple Takes Larger Bite of Campus Market And who was the Apple Campus Rep working at the Harvard Technology Products Center during that quarter? You’re reading his blog.

I’m going to BarCamp LA-2

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

I’m going to BarCamp LA-2. Are you? Edit: I’m going to Boston this weekend, but email me if you want a Wallop invite.
I had never heard of BarCamp until I read about it on Boing Boing this morning. BarCamp LA-1 seemed like a blast and the whole BarCamp concept is spiffy.
Wallop, the social network that […]

Where are the High Def Commercials?

Friday, October 20th, 2006

So I’m watching Jay Leno in high definition, as I do*, and I started observing which TV commercials were broadcast in standard definition during HD shows. Many TV stations are in a two-decade long transition to digital and high definition broadcasts, so they switch between standard definition, 720 and 1080 HD content constantly.
I understand the […]

Link: Overhead Tiffany

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Overheard At College: Tiffany’s Debut

Link: Bravia Paint

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Sony Bravia: Paint: Follow up to the amazing Balls.

Thanks Andrienne!

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Probably the cutest photo of Arthur & I. ever.

Eligiendo: DEMOCRACIA Screening

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

The first phase of Grey Matters Media’s documentary following the Nicaraguan presidential election will be screened in Managua, Nicaragua this week.
I drove Arthur to LAX this morning. He’s meeting up with Jess (the editor), Ana (the associate producer), and, of course, his lovely mom and grandmother. However, this executive producer has to stay home and […]