So it has been ages since I’ve posted anything to this website. Mostly I’m really busy with work and stuff, but lately I’ve also been busy building a new web property. About six weeks ago, I, along with my friends Tom, Chris, and John launched Nerd News And Reviews. This is a new site where we will talk about the video games we’re playing, the movies we’re watching, the comics we’re reading, and anything else we find interested enough to write about.
Book Review: Crush It – By Gary Vaynerchuk
Posted by wade on October 20, 2009
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It’s no secret that the Internet is getting bigger and bigger everyday, and it seems like almost weekly that I read about somebody who has started a blog or a podcast or a video channel on youtube and has run away with the bank in what seems like no time at all. Everyone is of [...]
Star Wars Theme Restaurant Menu
Posted by wade on August 19, 2009
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A couple weeks go, some friends and I came up with the hypothetical of opening a Star Wars themed restaurant. We started riffing on some potential menu items. Then we kept going. The following is what we’ve come up with, arranged into a menu. Feel free to add your own in the comments.
Five Reasons Microsoft Should Still Fear Google
Posted by wade on July 9, 2009
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This morning on PaidContent.org, Staff Corespondent Joseph Tartakoff posted five reasons why Microsoft doesn’t have to worry about Google’s new ChromeOS. Most of them are just wrong, in my opinion, and here’s why: Windows 7 is Not Vista: I agree, Windows 7 is going to do much better in the marketplace than Vista did, but [...]
Google AdSense: When does advertising go too far?
Posted by wade on June 29, 2009
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An article posted at MediaPost.com last Friday discusses a new advertising venture from Google which targets ads to users based on those users’ credit scores. This new deal involves a parnership with Compete.com, a company that tracks online activity and personal data of approximately 2 million users who consented to having their information shared with [...]
Barack Obama – The Rock On Which We Rebuild This House
Posted by wade on April 15, 2009
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President Obama came to Georgetown University this morning, where he made what has been referred to as a “major speech” on the economy. The event was held in GU’s Gaston Hall, which holds about 700 people. Of the literally thousands of students who put their names into the lottery for tickets to the event I [...]
Who Cares If Software Is Free (As In Speech)?
Posted by wade on March 24, 2009
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Going around a lot of the social bookmarking sites like Digg and Slashdot lately has been an article by Richard Stallman, in which he waxes on and on about the current state of javascript applications across the web. Stallman’s primary thesis is that there should be some sort of standard for javascript that requires javascript [...]
Why Everyone Should Learn C++ First
Posted by wade on March 1, 2009
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About two weeks ago, an article from a blog I read fairly regularly made its way on to the Digg frontpage. It was the opinions of an experienced software developer about what programming languages someone who is just getting started in software development should learn. Many comments on this post questioned the omission of c/c++ [...]
Power Shift 2009
Posted by wade on March 1, 2009
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So I’ve spent this weekend at Power Shift 2009 at the DC Convention center. If you don’t know, this is a conference where 12,000 young people have come to promote and lobby for new legislation designed to move us to a greener society. I have spent this weekend as part of the conference’s new media [...]