How durable is your blogging
I have taken about 10 months off to work on two projects, one a cloud computing book covering Amazon Web Services and pushed that out as an e-book over on Kindle. I am also working on a compilation of Google Hacks (Google Dorks) that is up to about 10,000 known Google searches for finding cool [...]
Why I think I can win in Small Claims Court against my Mentally Ill neighbor
I got an interesting comment from a person named Sam who visited from the K20 network in Everett about small claims court. He stated: “Given your complete lack of understanding about Washington state law for small claims court, I would tend to believe this whole story is made up.” Believe me when I say this [...]
Name and Shame Child Predator Facebook Page ordered shutdown
Regardless of your opinions of how you feel about Child Sex Predators, or how you feel about a story like this, there are some interesting things that need to be addressed. In the UK a court has requested that Facebook take down a page that seeks to collect and share sex predator information across the [...]
Girl Genius IOS App now on Kickstarter
While I am a fan of Girl Genius by Phil Foglio and find the story line amazingly wonderful for my niece, something about this project is not feeling right. Generally I am a big fan of video games and fairly familiar with what the development costs for an average game is for the IOS system, [...]
On being an Adjunct
Over at the Adjunct Project there is an endlessly fascinating data sheet about what it is like to be an Adjunct across the United States right now. If the statistics they are citing are absolutely true, we are looking at about 70% of all teaching positions right now in this nation are filled with Adjuncts. [...]
Making an attempt to cope with a mentally ill neighbor
It has been six months now since my neighbor went off her meds and started acting out against the voices in her head. Since then it has been an unmitigated reign of terror in the condo complex that I live in, and I want to move. But I can’t move because my condo is [...]
Yet another script to mount an AWS S3 bucket in Linux
This was a script written by Alex Brooks who gave me permission to use the base script and change it along the way. Mounting a bucket in S3 on a linux box can be a tricky issue, especially when it does not want to set the permissions to the bucket right so that the average [...]
Why you should not use a photographer’s work for Bullying
Over the weekend I had a wonderful time doing coverage of Seattle’s own Slut Walk to help highlight the issues with sexual abuse, abuse, violence towards women, rape, and a host of other societal ills that I actually think are very uncool. This is one of those issues I have an opinion about. What was [...]