Year: 2007

* Wow — Scott Beale, friend and family, makes this amazing Laughing Squid post about this conference and my context in it. Thank you, Scott! Laughing Squid is at the top of my RSS pile these days, so it’s a hyooge honor. * Send well wishes to Hacker Boy, who, after a harrowing night with…

We came. We swam. We went to the Forbes dinner. The schwag fairy came and we are scared. Your motherfucking dot com is melting. Set is here, nice stuff. Hacker Boy Cabana Boy is the perfect date for this weird, weird corporate event. The Forbes people are very friendly, but I am as out of…

We finally made it in at 2am last night; just shot the above photo and this video of my morning coffee experience (bleh!) Video is embedded after the jump also — now I have to go get in that green water! I still can’t believe this is happening. And with superb upload speeds, yaaaaayyyy!

Ugh, Houston Airport is closed, our plane got low on fuel and now we’re sitting in beautiful Corpus Christi (airport). Thunderstorms, I love you when I’m on the ground. I read a great piece about forensics in this week’s New Yorker, and started in on a terrific book, When Hollywood Had A King. I’m blogging…

This week’s column in the Chron is No (Lesbian) Sex In The Stacks, including a funny interview with Felice Newman. There is much mail on this, about christianity, lesbianism and sex books in public libraries — I’ve included all of it, positive and negative, after the jump. That said, I want to mention two things…

I’m all set now, but earlier today I made a little video of myself packing (and procrastinating packing) for tomorrow’s flight to Mexico, where I’ll be speaking on the “Web Disrupters” panel for the Forbes Internet Leadership Forum. I talk a bit more about the panel, and what I’ll be expecting at this conference (which…

Jonno just served up the most perfect Fleshbotty response to the Digg user hoo-hah (which is sadly lacking in the hoo-hah department if you know what I mean) — and points out that Digg won’t let its users link to our site. I’ll shamelessy snip his glorious text (and art) from Hot Hexadecimal Porn: We…