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Written By: darien on November 7, 2009 6 Comments

The other day, I met an entrepreneur who came into the office to meet with Support My Web about a new project he is building.  We ended up talking, and both of us shared the projects we are working on.

His background was very interesting to me.  In the late 90’s, he had raised several [...]

Written By: darien on October 16, 2009 4 Comments
Sometimes…

Sometimes I read comments from strangers on my blog that say things like, “Are you a professional journalist?  You write very well!” and it makes me feel happy and excited.  Then I realize identical comments appear a dozen times and they all link to an online Viagra clearinghouse.  /sigh.

Written By: darien on August 14, 2009 One Comment
Mixology experiment gone horribly right.

Inspiration doesn’t hit me often, but today it hit me like a sack of steaming excrement.  The idea: create a martini that tastes like the creamy goo at the center of a Twinkie; the Twinkietini.

Before setting out, I did a quick Google search that revealed a couple of so-called “Twinkietini” recipes that already [...]

Written By: darien on August 11, 2009 One Comment
Fan death!!!!

I was amused today to stumble across a surprisingly lengthy Wikipedia article on the Korean urban legend of “fan death.” Many (most) Koreans seem to believe that falling asleep in a room with a running fan can cause sudden death through means that have never been quite clear to me, and which [...]

Written By: darien on July 25, 2009 One Comment
Cap-and-trade is socialist?  Really?

When I decided to start a serious blog a couple of months back, one of the things that I told myself that I was going to refrain from blogging about was political issues.  There are enough people out there doing that and they’re mostly more qualified than me to hold staunch positions worth sharing [...]

Written By: darien on June 25, 2009 8 Comments
News at the speed of web-chatter:  what Michael Jackson can teach us about ‘News 2.0.’

It’s 3:45 PM Pacific Time, and even though no one seems to have confirmed the reports, every major media outlet is reporting that Michael Jackson has died.  Regardless of the verity of the reports, I think that watching the story grow on Facebook and Twitter over the last half hour has highlighted a couple of [...]

Written By: darien on June 12, 2009 8 Comments
The Daily Show as media watchdog

This recent episode of The Daily Show really crystallizes everything that I’ve been saying about it since the beginning of the Obama presidency.  For the past eight years, the show’s content was directed largely at criticizing the Bush presidency.  And who can blame them?  Those jokes wrote themselves.

Now that the Bush administration [...]

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