Phil801 - Geek Blog

It’s interesting to see life play out. It’s also interesting how some things seem critically important in one paradigm but completely inconsequential in another. Priorities shift in life, plain and simple. Things that are essential are able to become so completely not a concern that we forget to notice them.
For me, […]

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I don’t know if I’ve coined the term ‘Social Fiefdom’ or not, but I thought of it the other day and I think it does a great job of describing the social respect meme that we humans naturally create and follow. I’ve heard several people discussing parts of this phenomena and I wanted to […]

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I’m sitting next to Oren Sreeby - he was actually able to complete his blog posts for the first sessions. His blog is here: http://staff.washington.edu/oren/weblog2/
His posts are here:
http://staff.washington.edu/oren/weblog2/archives/2005/12/when_20_pavel_c.html
http://staff.washington.edu/oren/weblog2/archives/2005/12/when_20_mitch_k.html
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OK, for the last hour and a half I’ve been sitting here blogging the first panel. I uploaded pictures of the panel to flickr and told it that i wanted to see my photos. So the bloody thing took the explorer window on top of the stack and changed the url to flickr. […]

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The incredible Make Magazine hit my radar about 2 weeks ago. I almost picked one up while browsing the Computers and Electronics magazines at Barnes and Noble because it looked interesting, but the $15.00 price tag turned me off. Few magazines are worth that. Since then, I kept hearing about it […]

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Wow, it’s taken more to get this together than I thought it would!
As of right now, we have 57 people RSVPd on the wiki. We were hoping for 50 - we can seat 120, although that would be quite crowded. So we’ve exceeded our own expectation for attendance! […]

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Dangit. The Riya uploader doesn’t seem to be doing a thing. I’m getting ready to go to bed so I loaded it up and pointed it to a bunch of photos to upload. I clicked on ‘Start Upload’ and it is just sitting there. It looks like Tejas is having the […]

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I’m totally excited! I got my alpha invite for Riya today. If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that I’ve been watching and anticipating Riya for a while now, I’ve even met with them to discuss business collaboration and seen a demo of it. Now I finally get to use it! […]

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