Getting Tased

June 26, 2010

Last week while I was at the Taser International offices, they said they would be willing to tase me if I wanted to know what it was like. I knew right away I had to try this out, and a quick poll on Twitter confirmed this should happen.
None of my coworkers were willing to give [...]

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A personal thanks to the Ignite Phoenix team

June 21, 2010

Image by Moriartys via Flickr

Ignite Phoenix 7 wrapped up, and I’m in that lull where I’m excited by how well it went, and partially relieved to not have it looming for another few months.  This Ignite was by far bigger and more complicated than any we’ve tried before. It was the first time with a [...]

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How about a game of Mental Thermonuclear War?

May 28, 2010

Image via Wikipedia

One of my gifts is the ability to completely and utterly think myself into a corner. I’m like the WOPR playing Tic-Tac-Toe with itself in the movie WarGames.
It creeps up on me most times. A big portion comes from over-commiting myself to projects (another gift of mine). A dash comes from trying to [...]

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WordPress hack is nasty – check your site security

May 8, 2010

If you run a WordPress blog, drop everything and go check your blog security!  Wait… I mean drop everything except reading this blog.  Read, then drop.  Right, hope that is sorted out now.
The point is that there is apparently a security hole in WordPress that is A) a serious pain in the ass, and B) [...]

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Know a great Valley non-profit that could use some help?

April 8, 2010

Image by penguincakes via Flickr

Through an odd series of events over the past two years I ended up involved in the crazy, passionate, chaotic world of Phoenix non-profit groups and events. I’ve been constantly impressed by the amazing things going on locally on an independent level, and constantly horrified at how difficult it is to [...]

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Seven Deadly Sins – updated for online use

April 3, 2010

After having an hour of productive time disappear after getting sidetracked in some Wikipedia articles, I tweeted out “It’s official – in the Seven Deadly Sins they’re replacing “Sloth” with “Dicking Around On The Internet””.  It was retweeted enough I thought I’d try my hand at updating the rest of the Seven Deadly [...]

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Come see me Monologue with some Galapagos!

March 3, 2010

I’m a long time Improv fan, being a former member of the most excellent Oxymoron’Z Troupe, and a founding member of the Jester’Z Troupe here in the Valley. I haven’t performed in ages, but the topic still nibbles at me, which is what led to my interest in Improv + Social Media.  So I was [...]

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Taking it to the streets with Locals Only: Phoenix

February 28, 2010

Last Sunday I had the pleasure of being the first guest on the first episode of a new live, local, interactive web show called Locals Only: Phoenix. Jennifer Maggiore and Jenn Burgess (“The Jenns”) host the show every Sunday at 5:00pm at a different location around town. They stream it out and take questions and [...]

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Quest for Power: iPhone charging device for SXSW

February 9, 2010

I’m headed to South By Southwest this March, and one thing I learned last year was to be prepared for mass amounts of personal device power consumption. Not that AT&T is likely to have their towers actually serving up a usable signal when the hordes descend upon Austin, but it is conceivable I may find [...]

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The power between the notes

February 5, 2010

I am not a person who has regrets, but one of the few things I wish I had done differently was learn to play a musical intrument as a child.  I could still do it, I know, but my life is so slammed with stuff going on I don’t know where I’d work it in. [...]

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