Your Security Sucks
I’ve grown beyond tired and frustrated with what counts for security questions in web sites lately. There are two huge problems and practically every site has one or both problems with those second chance questions they want you to answer. In order to demonstrate, I have two sets of allowed questions from two sites I [...]
Tags: yoursecuritysucksReturn to Human
Starting Sunday mid-day I started getting the chills, which alternated with the sweats all day. It turns out that I spent basically three days lying on the couch under a blanket with a dog on my legs. It was one of those illnesses where I’d decide to turn on the TV, and then it would [...]
Fleetwood Mac Historical Controversy
Soundstage on PBS has recently shown a 2 part concert from Stevie Nicks. For no apparent reason this started me thinking about old Stevie songs and old Fleetwood Mac and reading about some of their history. I ran across a bit about the controversy on the Rumours album, where Stevie Nicks really wanted the song [...]
Tags: fleetwoodmac, stevienicksThe Wire on Super Sale
I’ve never seen even a single episode of The Wire even though I know many people say it is the best TV series ever. I was a huge fan of Homicide: Life on the Streets also by David Simon, which I think is the best series I’ve ever watched. Well now, you can purchase all [...]
Kick Off Your Carnival with 3canal
I listened to the most recent episode of Caribbean Free Radio last weekend. There are precious few new episodes so I cherish every one I get. In this, she was talking with her friends in 3canal and they discussed their current album and the interesting promotion they are engaged in. For the time being, their [...]
Tags: 3canal, trinidadtunesSterling Gets on the Wattage Train for our Energy Future
Bruce Sterling blogs about Stewart Brand’s notes from the Long Now Foundation about a similar Saul Griffith presentation to that I referenced a few weeks ago. Brand’s post includes the specifics that I didn’t transcribe from the audio.
Two terawatts of photovoltaic would require installing 100 square meters of 15-percent-efficient solar cells every second, second after [...]
I Don’t Know
Apparently my previous post keeps showing up in Google Reader over and over. I don’t know why either. Apologies to those who are getting bugged by it. I’m hoping making a new one will clear out whatever oddness is making this happen. If it keeps happening, time to give the exorcist a call.
Update: I had [...]
An Escrow System for Wordpress Plugins
Over on Grand Strand Bloggers, I want to try out this plugin that automatically makes digest posts. That is perfect for what we want to do. However, the plugin I”m trying to use is really half-baked and appears abandoned. I’d think about adding to this with our needs at GSB if there was a way [...]
Tags: digest-post, wordpress, wp-crontrolTravels and Bummers and Will Eisner
I’m in Atlanta at the moment, doing travel for the day job. I would have liked to have met up with friends and done stuff but the evening plans were such that I wasn’t sure if I was free. I ended up opting to just go for ease this time through. Sorry ATL friends, I [...]
Tags: atlanta, atlantajewishfilmfestival, oxfordcomics, spirit, willeisnerComic Book Noise’s Best of the Year
I’m a regular listener to Comic Book Noise. As I get back into collecting comics, it’s one of the tools I use to figure out what books and series sound interesting to me. Derek recently published a show about his top picks for 2008. Here is Part One, As far as I can tell, there [...]
Tags: comicbooknoise, comics, derekcowardEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 4, 2009 – “The Start of Something Good”
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for January 4, 2009. I play a song from the Jody Grind; I talk about the new year, about being too fat and deciding where to spend my time; I talk about how I am getting back to collecting comic books; I talk a little [...]
Tags: comicbookdb, friendfeed, jodgrind, saulgriffithOh San Francisco
There was a time I thought I wanted to live in San Francisco. That time is long passed. We go there for AGU most years, and while I like a few days there, that is now plenty for me. There is a permeating hipster douchebag air that I just can’t shake from when I land [...]
Google Calendar, CalDav and iCal
A month ago, I set up iCal syncing with my Google Calendar via these instructions. Thus far, it has rocked the serious rock. I’ve given in to the borg and set up Google as my central hub for mail, for calendars, contacts, etc. They already know everything about me anyway. I used to be scared [...]
Tags: caldav, gcal, googlecalendar, icalFat Times
My friend Derek Coward posted over the holidays a wakeup call he had about how fat he has become. I’m in a similar boat. I was working out at the gym over the summer, and at some point had my routine broken and stopped going. There was not a week between August and December that [...]
Streaming Podcasting
Partly because I think it is fun when the guys at Good Clean Fun do it, I’ve started experimenting with streaming it live when I’m recording episodes of my podcast. Thus far, I’ve only done it once. As I type this, I’m about to do it again. You can see it at my very own [...]
Tags: goodcleanfun, podcasting, ustreamWhat is the Wattage of Your Lifestyle?
Last week I blogged about the Saul Griffith presentation on energy literacy. In it, he calculated the wattage of his lifestyle. For those of you that would like to purse a similar metric, there is an online tool to help you calculate and track your lifestyle. It is called WattzOn. I just created a profile [...]
Tags: saulgriffith, wattzon
