Yesterday, while eating and drinking in North Beach SF, I stumbled upon an event put on byJon Brumit called "Bring Your Own Big Wheel." What a trip :-D Imagine adults, dressed up as super heros and other oddities, racing big wheels down a very steep, very windey road. There were a ton of wipe-outs and scrapes …

Back on April 1st, 2004, I was dating a woman who was a fan of Showtime's new lesbo show, The L-Word. She subscribed to Showtime specifically for the show but missed it one night. Not having experienced the pleasures of TiVO, she asked me to download a copy from the Internet. She was usually a little too paranoid to …

Tomorrow, the University I attend will be getting "The Internets." They'll have not just one Internet installed, but two! Ever since I heard of the project sometime in 1999, I've wanted to attend a school awesome enough to participate. I can't wait to download scholarly papers and what not at 10 Gbps!

Okay, so me and Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine aren't best friends, or even friends at all, but I'll be seeing him speak tomorrow at Startup School in Palo Alto at Stanford University. I don't recall how I came across the URL but seeing that it was close by and a bunch of badasses were speaking, I …

I've got another final due tomorrow, is it obvious I'm procrastinating? But seriously, if your city has Zipcar and you don't have wheels, I highly recommend using their service. I chose them over CityCarShare and FlexCar and I've been really satisfied. Just last weekend, I rented a Volvo for 2 days and safely headed up …

Well, this took awhile to figure out. I wrote a Roman Numeral converter for my Java final and one of the requirements states: Subtract only powers of ten, such as I, X, or C. Writing VL for 45 is not allowed: write XLV instead. This means I had to see if the number I'm working with was a power of 10. Initially, I did …

As seen on soma.fm The Copyright Royalty Board has announced new copyright licensing fees for internet radio stations. The new fees are a staggering increase over our previous annual royalty rate of about $22,000 to over $600,000 for 2006. And the fees are even higher in 2007, based on our current listenership, they'll …

I'm nearly a year behind on this but I just found the free 7MB CHM of the Scripting Guy archive which contains every published article from August 2004 to June 2006. This is a great compliment to the Windows IT Pro Master CD which is still 50%off (now $30).

Wow, have ya'll seen the new Google Groups interface? It's sex on legs. Image not found Web path: https://blog.netnerds.net/images/googlegroups.gif Disk path: /static/images/googlegroups.gif Using Page Bundles: false Now if only they'd put back "Groups" in the main Google navigation text.

I've got two 10 page papers to write by Wednesday so I figure there's no better time to write a post about the things you can find in my Swiss Synergy backpack. This backpack is rather large but its size often comes in handy (grocery store trips and school finals come to mind). I used to value micro sized bags but …