I was playing around on Domainr a few weeks ago when I came across an unregistered Spanish domain that resembled my name, bgat.es. Being relatively compulsive when it comes to these things, I immediately grabbed it though GoDaddy… another fifteen minutes and I had the nameservers pointed to my Dreamhost account for hosting. Pretty painless. [...]
Category Archives: Unsolicited Advice
Vote Early, Vote Awesome
October 30 10
I voted today. My state has mandatory vote-by-mail for all citizens, so we received a ballot a few weeks ago and it gets dropped off in one of many white “vote here” mailboxes all over town. Seems like a good idea, at least in terms of voter participation. Definitely negates the need to call for [...]
Hemos Vuelto!
August 1 10
We have returned, from Playa Del Carmen in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Actually, we were just outside of Playa at the Hotel Valentin Imperial Maya. I took some pictures, you can see them on my Flickr page here. It was a great trip. Very relaxing, lots of time on the beach. We couldn’t [...]
Google Voice
March 17 09
Google Voice is here! It was announced last week that Google Voice was coming, and that current Grand Central subscribers would be migrated automatically over the next few days. I checked my Grand Central account twice a day, every day, since that announcement, and up to yesterday I was getting a little worried. But no [...]
Happy Christmas
December 25 08
Happy Christmas to everybody out there on the interwebs. Hope it’s a good one.
World Record
June 17 08
Firefox 3 comes out today, and Mozilla is trying to set a world record for the number of times a software program is downloaded in a 24 hour period. Click here to get in the action and do your part for open source browsing.
Sick Around The World
May 10 08
At the behest of a co-worker, I went online last night to the PBS website to try and find a recent Frontline episode. I don’t typically make a habit of streaming video (watching TV on the computer), but as computers have gotten better and internet connections have gotten faster, it’s actually not a terrible experience [...]