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geekSessions 1.3: PHP Scalability and Performance

January 27, 2008 – 12:23 pm

Terry Chay is very good at gathering important people together, so when I heard about the lineup for a PHP-flavored geekSessions, I knew tychay had something to do with it.

As always, The Forbin Group and SF Beta hosted the event at the beautiful City Club atop 255 Sansome. Cindy was a great hostess.

geekSessions 1.3’s panel [...]

By me | Also posted in Coding, Computing, Education, Events, Facebook, Flickr, Geek, International, Learning, PHP, Programming, SF, Standards, Talk, Unicode, Video, Yahoo!, geekSessions, terry chay | Comments (2)

“January 1 TCP/IP” scam

January 1, 2008 – 11:20 am

When you visit google.com today, there is a new doodle:

When you click the link, it queries “January 1 tcp/ip“, which links to a Digg story about today being the 25th birthday of TCP/IP.
The funny thing is, under this story is a flurry of Adsense scams.

As soon as the doodle went up, people created content [...]

By me | Also posted in Advertising, Bad, Blogging, Competition, Controversy, Google, History, Holidays, Ideas, Internet, Scam | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Hokies Respect, Don’t be a jerk

July 24, 2007 – 1:49 am

Hokie Football - Don’t Be a Jerk from Andrew Mager and Vimeo.

By me | Also posted in College, Community, Football, Friends, Video, Virginia Tech | Comments (2)