General Poobah

I think it’s a valid question at this point. I remember the first stuff being sold online which seems like an eternity ago, but was only about 15 years. Maybe to some people that IS an eternity. It seems both so short a time, but so far away.
Actually I don’t want to write about that [...]

So I’ve finally finished reading all the Hugo nominees, and the Hugo winner, from 2009. This was a pretty amazing group of books, I’ll be perfectly honest. I haven’t read every nominee from every year, so me making a statement that this was an amazing year for the top books doesn’t hold as much weight, [...]

gizmodo.com/5574821/uh-oh-adobe-porn-industry-prepping-to-ditch-flash
So looks like the biggest Porn house is going to stop using Flash tech as soon as IE8 starts supporting HTML5. (I won’t hold my breath, IE8 has really lagged behind the other browsers in supporting CSS3 and HTML5 but that’s nothing new. They’ve historically done things their own way…
The point though is that, whether [...]

So I’ve been watching the World Cup alot. Gotta love a second monitor, ESPN3, and the ability to have the volume on without wearing headphones…
It’s been great. I love soccer/football. Played it when I was younger, played it when I was older, coached a club soccer team during grad school…Of course that’s when I was [...]

So I was reading someone else’s article on social networking and they said “The internet is made out of people.” I couldn’t read that without hearing good ole Chuck Heston’s voice.

Oh you silly social networkers. Never say something is made out of people. That’s just gross. Don’t use synonyms either. The internet isn’t made out [...]

Well we’re almost there, but every time I think we’re in the future we’re back in the present. Of course then all that stuff is in the past…
The image above, if you’re hopelessly clueless, is from the movie 2001. The main character, who would be much better captured by the great Roy Scheider in the [...]

Scale. It’s important. More important though frequently is PERCEPTION of scale. How big you actually are is many times less important than you actually are. And get your mind out of the gutters. I’m talking about your website.
Humans have a really hard time judging scale. They can’t really picture size. When you do try and [...]

Ok so I’m sure people have seen the ads out there on the internets for Five Hour Energy. The little plastic shotglass with a spout that says it’ll keep you going through your humdrum day. Going by internet ads along, it seems that the American economy is based on 5 hour energy drinks to keep [...]

Dear Mark,
I read a blog post earlier with the same title as this one. “Dear Mark Zuckerberg” which inspired me to write this blog post.
scobleizer.com/2010/05/13/dear-mark-zuckerberg/
He makes some interesting points. To split Facebook into private and public components, to make the private piece easier to set up, to have a third party verify your security, to [...]

How many people truly have a secure password? Probably not all that many. In my experience the vast majority of people have pretty insecure passwords, and they use them again….and again…and again. In this day and age everyone needs to learn to have better and more secure passwords.
“I’ll never remember them”
“I have too many passwords [...]