2009 July

In this episode, Nathan Cordero and I were joined by Joe Salinas  dazedfromthemaze.blogspot.com). We talked about our detachment from our home state (California), the culture shock of being 3,000 miles from home, and how people who had never been there are sporting our threads. We also covered Joe’s landlord’s hostile take over of the house [...]

This is my first FULL attempt at podcasting. Sorry, the audio is quiet (read: horrible). For our first episode, I brought along a good friend of mine, Nathan Cordero. He and I go way back, and as luck would have it, both moved to the Upstate New York area around the same time.
In this episode, [...]

I’m usually an early adopter on most things social. I was one of the first million users of Twitter, an early user of FriendFeed, and a beta tester of Ping.FM. I have always had an enjoyment for the togetherness of the masses that the Web has brought us in the last few years.
When it comes [...]

I received an invite for Google Voice a couple of weeks ago. I had a Grand Central account years ago, (but like many) I completely left it neglected, and did not upgrade after Google’s purchase of Grand Central.
I was a little wary of what may have been changed. You basically log in, and choose your [...]

My lovely wife, Tara, has a Toshiba laptop that she has owned for the past year. Being about a year old, it’s a Vista Home Premium roll-out machine. She enjoys the benefits of the 64-bit Vista Home Premium install, the dual-core AMD Turion X2, ATI Radeon integrated graphics, etc.
She is also one of the few [...]