I shaved my beard. I’d been growing it since November 2003 and aside from the occasional trim along the sides to keep it from going totally Grizzly Adams on me, I let it grow wild. It was pretty long. By far the longest it’s ever been. I think it was a good 2-1/2 to 3 […]

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The funniest thing I’ve heard at SXSWi so far was when Michael Griffith came lumbering out of La Zona Rosa with a cloud of geek rock music swirling all around him. We were at 20×2 and he’d been hanging out inside listening to Pong. Pong were dressed in safety orange jumpsuits. One guitarist was playing […]

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Tonight’s the night! 8pm to midnight at the Red Eyed Fly on Red River is the fourth annual Fray Cafe. Kevin Smokler, Jay Allen, Lance Arthur and a special mystery guest will be joining us, as well as Scott Andrew LePera and Annie Lin. Bring yourselves, some friends, and a good story to tell! See […]

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Well I’m really glad that know that Sept. 11 has provided Bush with such a fortuitous marketing angle for his re-election campaign. I mean, it doesn’t get much better than that, does it? Jobs? Screw ‘em. Economy? What’s that? The loss of thousands of lives? Hey, now there’s something we can really capitalize on. Serendipity […]

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Okay so earlier I wrote this long post about how just when I thought I couldn’t possibly despise Micro$oft more than I already do, something like this turns up: Halloween X, Follow The Money and The Memo is Legit. Basically it’s an implication that SCO is positioned to receive over a hundred million dollars from […]

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If you’ve sent me mail in the past couple of days and still haven’t heard back from me, you might want to send it again. I think I deleted a bunch of stuff by accident. Oops. This is why it’s good to have a test server at home to practice on. Of course, having a […]

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Okay I have a really good excuse for being so absent lately. Really: I’ve built my own computer. Shut up, I’m totally serious. I went to Goodwill and bought a used motherboard, a Duron 700 MHz CPU, a video card, some memory, a 300W power supply, and an empty Workhorse box (all for under $80). […]

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