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Dec 19 | Recent Notable Auctions
Item: 1297 Magna Carta Sold for: $21.3 million, December 2007 Made famous for: being the Magna Carta. One of only 17 in existence, the only one in public hands. It was held by the Brudenell family, earls of Cardigan, who had owned it for five centuries, before being sold to the nonprofit Perot Foundation in […]
Oct 27 | PayPal Security Key
As an avid eBayer and a frequent user of PayPal, online security is often on my mind, what with scammers and phishers become more and more intelligent and craftier with their techniques in trying to dupe your everyday user to give up their credit card numbers (and for others, like myself, who continue to get […]
Aug 23 | Links
Estonia suffers Web War One: how botnets crippled Europe’s foremost wired country. In today’s digital age this is a serious threat. An IM infatuation turned to romance. Then the truth came out. Freaky and scary at the same time, and it ends in such an unexpected way it’s even more shocking. The first web 2.0 […]
Jul 26 | On a sleepless, API code-filled night
Will you won’t you join the dance? Normal programming resumes the 7th. After spending the entirety of yesterday night going over the eBay Developer’s Kit, poring over the indecipherable examples and complicated code, I realized one thing, one precious tiny thing: API Developers are very stingy with code. Either that or there is the general […]
Jul 20 | Updates
I’ve been under much duress lately dealing with domains (including letting a great expired domain out of my hands) and the like, but the results have been remarkably splendid, and I will write more when I have the time. In short, I have moved to GoDaddy with a three-year hosting agreement for just $82, and […]
Jul 3 | Break, or Ode to Heath
The sun is comfortably positioned in the sky, its invisible heat waves sinking into my blue collared shirt as I traipse my way back to work, my hour lunch break, at half an hour, a small record of sorts. At the corner, a man with a rasta hat brandishes a blue plastic shark and points […]
Jun 28 | It’s a blue world
Every so often there comes a documentary that shakes the world, and redefines everything you take for granted. It doesn’t just do what every other documentary does by revealing what you don’t know already; it rebukes you for not knowing, it shames you for failing to realize the all too obvious. When it comes to […]
Jun 21 | New York fortune
Living in New York gets you prepared for the most absurd of eventualities, though I’m sure most of this applies to any metropolis around the world. To the subway: If you run down the stairs and race through the turnstile, the train going in the opposite direction will just be pulling in. You will have […]
Jun 17 | Catch me if you can
I used to think road bikers were the most pretentious, selfish and inconsiderate lot, riding like madmen at viciously dangerous speeds, decked out in their spandex and scaring old and young ladies alike trying to cross the street. No traffic rules could ever tame them (and I heard somewhere that cops won’t pursue any flagrant […]
Jun 14 | Let the bells toll
Happy International Weblogger’s Day! It’s been four amazing years of organizing an event that seems on its way to truly take off. This year’s theme is on “Solidarity”, and I for one most definitely have a few things to say. The past year has been one of reassessement and reshuffling, I think, in the blogosphere, […]