Entries from April 2007

Volunteering, Ray Bradbury, and Chalga

Date April 29, 2007

I have a hard time posting quick stream of conscious posts and usually feel the need to re-read, edit, research etc…before submitting a post. Reason being is that I usually don’t want to just splat something up for the sake of it. I want it to be something worth contributing that people will find interesting. [...]

3.1 Magnitude Earthquake with Epicenter 6 Miles from my House

Date April 23, 2007

I live in Chatsworth California, just on the border of Northridge, so I should be accustomed to earthquakes…but I’m not. I don’t think you can ever get used to them. So less than an hour ago when my room started to shake I braced for what appeared to be a decent sized quake. Turns out [...]

Making the Digg Front Page and My 15 Minutes of Web Fame

Date April 22, 2007

It’s been a week since I made the Digg front page for the first time and I thought I’d reflect on it a bit.
Bored on a Saturday night and laughing about my bank telling me about my Google check bouncing, I decided to blog about it and go to bed. I awake the next day [...]

Search to Buy the Best Hair Dryer for my Wife

Date April 22, 2007

My wife’s current hairdryer had just died. It was a pretty good one that had cost her ~$100 (I had no idea they could cost that much). But she really liked it. We went to Costco and she bought some $20 model they had over there and had been using it but knew that she [...]

Spock Wants to Become the Ultimate Peoplepedia

Date April 20, 2007

Webware has put together a video of the top sites shown at the first Web 2.0 Expo (wonder when the conference will change to 3.0?)  which I found out about after reading a tweet (I still can’t say that with a straight face) from Rafe Needleman. One of them was Spock.com (I tried to resist [...]

My Check from Google Bounced

Date April 14, 2007

This story was submitted to Digg and made the frontpage yesterday before getting buried shortly after. I wrote a post mortem about the experience here.
I recently got my first payment from Google for running Adsense ads. I never started this site with the purpose of making money, which was pretty hard to do in [...]

Celebrities Looking for Forgiveness?

Date April 13, 2007

With the recent hoopla over the Don Imus incident I thought I’d have some fun breaking out Photoshop and create a Mashup of a pretty unlikely event that came to my mind yesterday. Just wanted to provide a little Friday fun and hopefully generate a little chuckle.

Cleaker is the Best Wordpress Theme You’ve Never Heard Of

Date April 6, 2007

…and I selfishly would like to keep it that way for fear of widespread adoption, but author Adam Walker Cleaveland deserves praise and recognition for his fine work. Prior to my search and conversion to Cleaker I was using 3ColumnK2 which is a mod of the ever so popular K2 theme which I still use [...]

Atheism is the New Geek Stereotype

Date April 5, 2007

I was checking my feeds in Google Reader this morning and when viewing my Digg Technology feed I came across this post titled “Why are Geeks Often Atheist“? This title really piqued my interest as I consider myself a geek and have had some recent conflict regarding religion. I’ll get into that later but I [...]

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