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Entries from February 2007

The correct answer, is NOT

February 28th, 2007 · Comments Off

Well, I really tried, but it looks like the folks in Boston just won’t take advantage of my security training materials. They went and blew up a traffic counter:
There were some tense moments in Boston’s financial district Wednesday morning as police were forced to blow up a suspicious device.
The bomb squad shut down busy Devonshire [...]

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Tags: Stupidity · Terror

Two cents

February 27th, 2007 · Comments Off

Dreamhost, my hosting service, had a lil’ hiccup on Sunday that pretty much took down all my sites for a good part of Sunday. It was a problem caused by some scheduled emergency maintenance on the facility’s power systems, so I can’t fault them. And, as usual, they were good at keeping me informed of [...]

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Tags: Funny · Internet · Sitenews

Yapping away

February 26th, 2007 · Comments Off

The Yaplet chatbox in the sidebar is a bit of an experimental goof for now. Matt and Cristina at Yaplet are two very sweet grad students who whipped up this lightweight bit of magic. While it doesn’t have much of a purpose here, I do see it being useful with some of my other projects, [...]

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Tags: Internet

How to kill a brand

February 24th, 2007 · Comments Off

A touching and moving music video critique of the PS3. Very clever, and dead on.

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Tags: Funny · Gaming · Videos

Cracking down

February 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off

Stayed up until the wee hours playing Crackdown for the Xbox 360. It isn’t so much a giant sandbox game as it is a giant jungle gym game. Exploring the city by jumping around and climbing is most of the fun. The game itself contains minimal structure, just enough to frame a couple different type [...]

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Tags: Gaming · Xbox