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One of the things I miss about living in Illinois was the regular group of friends I had over to play poker. A wonderful byproduct of the never-ending basement finishing project was that I had room for a poker table. Every few months, I had a bunch of friends over, and usually lost money while…

Three years ago, I had a pretty funny run-in with a spammer with a sense of humor. Instead of just spamming people, he hacked a mailing list, and spammed the mailing list. What’s funny about that? Everyone who replied replied to the mailing list, which meant that each complaint generated more complaints, and so on…

Got a call yesterday from the Dean of my law school, who was calling to let me know that the student committee responsible for picking a commencement speaker had asked to invite me. I’m more than a little blown away by this: it’s an incredible honor, but it’s also daunting (to say the least). So…

Earlier today, I had what I thought was a great idea for LinkedIn: publish the title distribution within a company. You know how start-ups and banks give VP titles to anyone with a pulse? I often wonder when I see someone’s title whether they are in fact senior in the org and have a lot…

I’ve been having a lot of fun playing around with the G1 the company gave out as holiday gifts, and have found the camera is actually quite decent. It’s a 3 megapixel camera – and in addition to making it a great barcode/QR code reader, it takes decent snapshots. When I redesigned the blog the…

If you’re looking for some background on the technology and thinking behind Daemon, this hour+ presentation Dan gave last summer is as good as it gets: http://fora.tv/embedded_player Have I mentioned Daemon is out now? Buy your copy today before it looks like you’re just jumping on the bandwagon. 🙂

If you were intrigued by today’s post about creating a QR code for your blog, be sure to check out this site, which makes it easy to create QR codes for contact info, calendar events, geo locations, phone numbers, SMS messages, plaintext, or URLs. Slick, slick, slick.

You may have heard that we were fortunate at Google to receive the Android phone (what T-Mobile calls the G1) as a holiday gift from the company. I was out the day they were distributed, so I didn’t get a chance to play with the phone over the holidays, and instead picked mine up on…

Long-time readers of this blog will remember my enthusiastic support of a novel called Daemon. (See here for my original review, and here, here, and here for subsequent metions.) I’ve been holding off on writing this post for a while, so be warned: this will not be a brief post. It’s not enough to say…

For those wondering why I would go ahead and move my blog off of WordPress, I can now answer: I’m joining the Blogger team. Seemed like a good idea to make sure I re-acquainted myself with the service. 🙂 More than 7 years ago, I started this blog on Blogger – even becoming a Blogger…