Projects

• 4Info is nation's largest provider of free SMS search and alerts content.
• 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
• Ebay (feedback|auctions)
• Wikipedia
• 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 maintains a popular blog on the biology of aging.
• Mike Glass is making movies in New York after completing his graduate film studies at NYU.
• Scott Kroeger is a father, husband, and digital matchmaker to the elites at Golfmates.com.
• Scott Davis muses about Java, Groovy, GIS, etc., and is the creator and editor of aboutGroovy.com.
• Dan Brekke is back at Berkeley after a very long hiatus, but he still finds time for writing.
• Andy Bradley just finished Columbia Law School, and will return to the Bay Area soon.
• 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
• MobLogic
• Bruce Schneier

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.
• 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.

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

Upon reaching 'Critically Undercapitalized' liquidity and reserve requirements status (less than 2%), IndyMac was closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision and seized by the FDIC. At the time (July 11), this is what they looked like:

• Total assets: $32.01B
• Total deposits: $19.06B
• Size of depositor bank run before reaching 'Critically Undercapitalized' status: $1.3B (6.8% of total deposits)
• Projected uninsured depositor loss: $1B (5.2% of total deposits)

• Combined deposits at all failed banks: $3.60B (Inflation adjusted to 2008: $54.23B)
• Combined bank run size causing failure: $0.39B (Inflation adjusted to 2008: $5.96B) (11% of total deposits)
• Total depositor loss after government intervention: $0.54B (Inflation adjusted to 2008: $8.13B) (15% of total deposits)

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.