Renaissance 2.0
I had the pleasure (or displeasure) of reviewing a new startup called SocialU on mashable.com in a post called Social Networking Air App SocialU wants to be your everything. On paper it looked like a great idea but once you installed it and started using it things went south in a hurry. My piece was…
The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing are officially over now and what a spectacle it was. I think all Olympic games have their own special unique voice so no one can ever declare one better than any others, especially the ridiculous statement that some IOC presidents used to make about a particular event being the…
By now, everyone should know about Hashtags on Twitter. You create a hashtag by using a pound (#) sign along with the keyword of choice (i.e. #iphone) and that message will become a part of the iphone hashtag page. Here’s the main screen that’s displayed: The exciting part that many people don’t know about is…
Obama made his selection! Joe Biden it is! Wished it would’ve been Hillary but oh well. Here’s Joe addressing their supporters..aka the Obama-nation…for the first time! Obviously he was excited. It reminded me of someone but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Hmmm.. 😉 Mobile post sent by Paisano using Utterz. Replies. mp3
In my latest piece for Mashable called “20 Plus tools and resources for Inventors” I covered the best sites for fledgling Edisons. I always enjoy writing for Mashable but this one was extra special to me because I actually use these tools. I love tinkering and coming up with new inventions or toying with ideas…
I was browsing thru an old LiveJournal that I used to keep way back in 2000 and stumbled across the following entry regarding a friend who committed suicide. It still hurts thinking of it even after all these years. I hope this helps someone out there. Suicide I just found out that an old friend…
Image via Wikipedia While looking at the latest medal count for the 2008 Olympics I wondered what the totals would look like if Russia were re-united with all of its little brethren. Would the USA still be winning the total medal count? The answer is a resounding Nyet! Thanks to my good friend Adam…
Rulon Gardner always comes to mind whenever the summer games roll around. He pulled off one of the greatest upsets in sports history, not just Olympic history. He was the American wrestler that shocked the world when he defeated the Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin who was undefeated in 13 years of international competition. The Russian…
I have a soft spot for the group ZEBRA from the 1980s. I saw them live at the Meadowlands in New Jersey and have always loved their music. There were only three of them but they created such a big sound. Randy Jackson (not the one from American Idol!) was the lead singer with the…
If you ever forget your password for logging into your local computer then you are out of luck. Sometimes you can remember the backdoor administrator login account but most of the time you won’t be so fortunate. Well, thanks to ophcrack you can now discover all of the login accounts and passwords for that computer….