Projects

• 4INFO is my full-time gig. Must... make money... to buy... more stuff.
• BrightRoll is the leader in monetizing internet video content.
• Sudoku is the new puzzle craze. I made a site where you can play and learn.

Guides

• Dual booting Linux and Win2k with GRUB. Ed Park's guide.
• Building a PXE server to boot/install Linux on diskless clients

Where I spend most of my time on the Internet

• Google (web|news)
• Slashdot
• Freshmeat
• The Economist
• Craigslist (san francisco|new york)
• The Internet Movie Database
• The Onion
• Ebay (feedback|auctions)
• Wikipedia, now you see it, now you don't (in China)
• New York Times Op-Ed page
• Wired (news|magazine)
• Boing Boing

Friends with web pages and blogs

• Matt Garlinghouse has created a TV show music finding service called TuneFind.
• James Byers is building Wikispaces in between breaks at our favorite pizza restaurant. I created a Sudoku Wikispace using his service.
• My brother Christopher has started a political blog, food blog, and mushroom blog after many months of talking about it. The only thing left to do is get our brother Jason to start blogging about working for Alberto Gonzalez.
• Mike Glass is making movies in New York after completing his graduate film studies at NYU, and is the owner of the coolest domain name on the internet.
• Brad O'Donnell blogs about life, Jessica, Maeve and Quinn in China.
• Scott Kroeger is a father, husband, and digital matchmaker to the elites at Golfmates.com.
• Scott Davis muses about Java while riding Colorado's trains with his son, Christopher. Congratulations on the new addition to the Davis family, Elizabeth.
• After whipping young journalists into shape at TechTV, Dan Brekke is freelancing, blogging, and riding his bicycle.
• Andy Bradley is back in school at Columbia Law School. He has successfully trained his beagles to only poop outdoors.
• Don Hoffman blogs about his appetite. His food analysis is second to none.
• James Hong founded Am I Hot or Not, Yafro Moblog and Xmethods, and he wishes his car was as cool as mine.
• John Todd is one of the finest professional photographers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Angel Foster is currently saving the world and women's autonomy over their own bodies at Ibis Reproductive Health.
• I'm hosting some images of Eric Sweet's wonderful artwork.
• Mark Leibowitz decided to actually follow our college dream of becoming professional photographers. He's doing incredible work both in the US and South America.

Other blogs I read/watch

• William Gibson
• Philip Greenspun
• Lawrence Lessig
• Steve Dekorte
• Rocketboom
• Wallstrip

If you are confused, you might also be looking for...

• The Stanford University Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Physics.
• My PGP public key for sending me encrypted communication.

Software I use

I use a great deal of free software, and have generally found the quality of free software to be better than that of proprietary software. Of course, there are hundreds of programs that make up the software I use on my computer (and thousands delivered over the Internet that we tend to forget) not mentioned here. These are just a few applications and programming tools that I've been actively trying to get my friends to adopt.

• Linux, a clone of the Unix kernel.
• NetBSD, a Unix-like operating system available for many platforms.
• Emacs, an extensible editor.
• Mozilla, a web browser and application delivery platform. Both Mozilla and Firefox are being actively extended.
• Java, an object oriented programming language with a comprehensive library (not 'free').
• JavaScript, a dynamic scripting language supporting prototype based object construction.
• FLTK, a toolkit for building grapical user interfaces. Works especially well when building OpenGL applications. Easy to use from Python with pyFLTK.
• PHP, a scripting language that makes web application development easy and accessible.
• MySQL, a fast and easy to use database server.
• Pine, a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages.
• Python, a dynamic object-oriented programming language, and my favorite addition to my programming toolbox.

Me for President, 2012 (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blog)

Slashdot and sources all over the web are reporting the death of Dungeons and Dragons creator Gary Gygax, after an extended illness and several strokes. That game, and others in the roleplaying genre, had such a profound impact on so many people close to me.

I'm not much for making new year's resolutions, but I like to make predictions around this time of year. I've been keeping these for the last 4 years, and Kirsten suggested that I start writing them down. Here they are:

• 2015 - Personal (Desktop) computers have a minimum of 64 processors (or cores on a die), and have largely abandoned a global shared memory architecture.
• 2016 - The first third party candidate since Millard Fillmore is elected to the Presidency of The United States.
• 2017 - At least 50 million deaths are directly attributed to climate change related environmental catastrophes.
• 2018 - It is legal to buy, sell, and smoke marijuana in the state of California.

I stumbled across this as a comment to a story here. I think it's an incredibly eloquent analysis of the intractable hopelessness of our moment in history.

"I evade my personal responsibility for the things I choose to do. I blame the government, the oil companies, George Bush, the economy, the wealthy and anybody else I can think of for the destruction that my lifestyle causes.
I put my comfort, my convienence and my conformity ahead of the lives and livlihoods of thousands of future generations, and I try not to think too much about my daily contribution to the destruction of the world that was left to me by thousands of past generations. I put myself far, far ahead of my ancestors and decendents and take from them for the most trivial of reasons.
I ignore the real human pain, suffering and death that my behaviour causes. I turn the page, switch the channel, and change the topic of conversation. I pretend that the science isn't definitive yet, or that there's no point in changing before others do, and I convince myself that 'scientists' will come up with a technological solution that will make my lifestyle and me OK.
I avoid, I deny, I justify and rationalise, I pretend, I project, I squirm and sqeeze and do whatever I can to maintain my concept of myself as a good person while still doing what I do. I evade my moral responsibility a day at a time in the hope that reality will somehow be different tomorrow morning.
I steal from those who live far away from me, and who I do not know because I see their pain as cartoon pain, and not fully real. I casally destroy what future generations will depend upon to live because they have yet to be born and it is only me, and my time and my normalcy that is important.
I am like those who, sixty years ago, did their jobs and lived their normal lives and didn't ask questions about where their jewish neighbours had gone. I am like those who participated in slavery and other atrocities, except that the effects of my crimes will outlast all those others.
And it is OK, because today I am normal, and busy, and have other things on my mind and, if what I do is really so bad so many people wouldn't be doing the same, would they?
But when, in the hours before I die, I think back upon my life and what it has meant, I must do one thing. I must hope and hope and pray and pray that there is nothing beyond life and beyond time and beyond myself, that there is no balance, no karma, no morality and no justice.
Because if there is, and I do what I do, knowing what I know....
Well, lets not think about that."