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Monthly Archives: October 2006

Code Catches Predators on MySpace

You may have recently seen the article on the Wired news editor that wrote a program to track registered sex-offenders on MySpace. This line stood out for me. The Wired News project also illustrates something MySpace could do to make its community safer, she says: hunting down and banning sex offenders from its site. I [...]

Key to Success

I think a key to success is doing things once you find you have to do them. Get a bill in the mail? Pay it right then. Do dishes right after the meal. Send Christmas cards right after Christmas. Fix bugs in programs once they crop up. Do your taxes the first week of January. [...]

Atlanta Art

If you don’t live in a place, it is not often that you first fly out of that place and then fly into it. It’s much more likely to be the other way around, but I’m one of the few, I guess. When helping Lance and Arica move to Atlanta I drove Arica’s car in [...]

Built to Spill

“I really enjoyed the show. I’m glad you all could make it out,” I say, helping Doug disassemble the projector screen.“Thanks, man, we had a great time,” Doug says, scratching his infinite beard.Derek shouts from across the room, “Brian, didn’t you say that same thing to Everclear a few days ago?”“Everclear?” Doug squawks. “They’re horrible! [...]

Tony Redux

I am tired and can feel that I might just say, “fuck you” to someone who doesn’t deserve it. I’m gonna try to keep this brief. Tony shows up about an hour late and drunk. He is overly-interactive with the customers in that drunk kind of way where random conversations, handshakes, high-fives spontaneously erupt. The [...]

Tony, It Makes Me Sad You are Fucking Up

I met him last year when he stopped by the Cradle asking to see if he could help clean up. He, like everyone else in the homeless world “just needed to get to Durham.” So I called him on it and said that if he were to meet me the next day at noon I [...]

YouTube, Google commentary

The News and Observer quoted me in this article on Google’s acquisition of YouTube. Of course they left out my financial analysis and decided to run with my thoughts on Haddaway remix videos.

Yom Kippur: Shofar Sho Good

The great thing about the previous post is that I finished it at pretty much the height of sickness-induced haze. I left work early yesterday to recuperate and ended up passing out for two hours before going to temple with la Mer. During this fitful sleep I saw visions of white text on a black [...]

Remnants

Bits of stories which have slipped through in the past week: Sweaty with shirt opened to i’m-ready-to-party mid-chest level. All night it’s Bush and Bush lite for him and his friend. Then jut Bush after Bush for him and him alone. Steph serves the final Bush that ruins his marriage. Screaching wife departs with flagelating [...]