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My coworker Joël1 and I were today discussing the different ways we can communicate and how "serious" each was. From lightest-weight / most innocuous to most intimate and serious, we came up with the following:...
Continue readingThis is my first review of an MRE from the Sopakco Sure-Pak 121. I got the version without heaters....
Continue readingDavid's Awesome Tunes You May Not Have Heard for Brett...
Continue readingAlso known as: David's Guide to Getting Drunk in Style....
Continue readingA talk I gave at the Peninsula Linux Users' Group1 about the history of PBworks....
Continue readingTERRIBLE UI @ Hotel Gotico: Elevator Originally uploaded by dweekly...
Continue readingPerill de Caigudes? Or Breakdancing? Originally uploaded by dweekly...
Continue readingThis weekend I banged out a very simple location service called L0K8. It consists of a small 1.1MB Windows download. You install & run, it pops up a web page, you give it your twitter username & password, and now as you move from place to place your...
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Continue readingWhen I was stuck in Boston's Logan International Airport for a few hours waiting for a flight, I decided I ought to get some work done; I popped open my laptop to see if I could spot a free network. Signed onto "loganwifi" and got a pa...
Continue readingwritten during an april 2008 trip to boston...
Continue readingWith only about 50% of PBwiki's traffic coming from North America and with preliminary benchmarks showing 3+ second page load times in Paris, I've been thinking a bit about how to make the PBwiki experience snappy for people around the worl...
Continue readingA post of mine from a recent email thread on why a co-op should continue to host a server with arguably distasteful but legal content:...
Continue readingIn honor of pi day1 3/14&8230;...
Continue readingThe singularity is past. We're already living in a collective consciousness with behaviors exceeding the capacity of any human or machine to understand, because that collective has intelligence exceeding our own by definition....
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Continue readingOn September 22nd, 2007, I got together with several of my friends Eve Phillips, Jocelyn Joy Berl, Travis Kalanick, Nathan Schmidt, and Alan Keefer and with the inspiration of my brother Chris Weekly1 we tasted a number of beers and rated them, along...
Continue readingHelp. My identity has been spread too thin....
Continue readingIn this talk for STIRR1 FounderHacks, I emphasize that founders should have their product do the simplest thing possible and let their users guide but not design! their product....
Continue reading> Landmark is a popular and profitable program in the US that claims to teach people how to better master themselves and their perceptions of the world. A number of my friends have attended or have considered attending at one point or another. I expl...
Continue readingEvery person and every animal has built in a desire to survive and to better themselves. Upon this self-centric axiom systems such as Objectivism1 are built. Such systems lack something central to the human experience &8211; desire for the direct bet...
Continue reading> Much of the "blogosphere" seems to be an echo chamber, with its own terminology including the word "blogosphere", cult leaders, conferences, and memes. Why? Is this healthy?\...
Continue readingI am rather appalled by the continuing aftermath of the publication of a few single-frame cartoon images of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper nearly half a year ago. A natural question has gone unasked: how many, if any, of those protesting have actuall...
Continue readingAbout half a year ago, I decided to go sign up for a Vonage account. This was mainly because I found myself needing to send faxes quite a bit, and it didn't seem too expensive. So I signed up....
Continue readinga very rambling and awfully incoherent saturday writing, done without the benefit of breakfast, or even lunch....
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