Sunshocked

Something has always bothered me about Shakira. Now I know what it is.

Being a white, heterosexual male in the tech industry is not without its challenges. Some of the biggest revolve around how to make the tech industry less white, heterosexual, and male.

The cover of Friday’s Chronicle reported a flurry of comments from GOP leadership (among which I’m including O’Reilly) on “San Francisco Values”. These three words are intended to scare voters into voting Republican, keeping SF Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi out of the Speaker position.

Today is that grandest of holidays, OneWebDay. Billed as “Earth Day for the Web”, people everywhere thankful for what the world wide web has given us are engaging in little projects to improve and honor it. Here’s what I did…

Much is written about how incredibly dangerous the new media is. Wikipedia contains inaccuracies! MySpace is full of pedophiles! Craigslist is infested with scams! Of course, much of this is perpetuated by the old media, who are hardly without sin. In fact, a recent situation illustrated to me just how the ecology of new media [...]

I spent several hours today trying to get my new Comcast High-Speed Internet Cable Modem connected. The experience really drove home the point that these bozos are not who we want running the internet and just how important passing net neutrality really is.