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A friend of mine called me the other day, and asked “where can I host a cheap website?” He knows I have 20 or 30 websites that I run personally, and another 100 or so for work, so I’m his “in the know” guy. I told him my personal websites were hosted at Dreamhost, but [...]

I just watched a documentary called “Bigger Strong Faster” while on the plane ride home from a funeral. It was an interesting commentary on the effects of steroids inside a family, but also on the effects of steroids on the whole American culture… or maybe it was the effects of the American culture on the [...]

Why doesn’t Mail.app have “advanced search” features? I’d really really like to see Apple add a way to quickly search for a certain value in the “from” field, and another in the “subject line”. I konw they have “smart mailboxes” and that’s useful for things I want to have quickly accessible over and over, but [...]

If someone “friends” me on facebook, I usually just accept the request and move on. Sometimes people I really don’t know friend me… and I have no idea why. Take this recent facebook chat for example: Charley: hi John: hi there Charley: you not talking to me for a wile John: not for a long [...]

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can not give to anybody anything the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they [...]

Read these quotes today, courtesy of Peter Shankman, on a listserv I’m on: For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.  – Leonardo da Vinci “Come to the edge.”  “We might fall.” “Come to the [...]