Being There

The ideas of virtual attendance, remote experience, and partial presence have been on my mind constantly at work — from building the autoshow RSS portals for fans to share the excitement of the autoshow experience, to connecting the five offices via persistant video connections to spread the buzz and enerfy from one office to the […]

Now, Secure Mail That Doesn’t Suck.

Digital signatures on your Gmails. Strong encryption. Easy.

The Code Swami GPG-Gmail system enables you to send and receive cryptographically secure mail with Gmail, completely within your existing personal workflow. Watch the screencast demo.

High-security GMail.

First screencast of the JM3 Encryption GMail plugin, with Firefox and Greasemonkey. Click to watch.

Moleskine Machine Gun


Firefly.net - a bit of history

Firefly.net rarely gets mentioned these days, but when pheezy mentioned Pandora (which i’ve not yet tried), my mind rolled back to 1998.
Firefly was a community site created in the early days of the web by Dr. Pattie Maes from MIT MediaLab. Firefly connected you with other people who had similar taste in music + media. […]

…C.I.A.?

No, the government’s not after your source code (unless it’s DeCSS or something).
CIA is a website for viewing changes to source control repositories. It’s great stuff.
CIA connects to subversion, CVS, or bitkeeper — your version-control system of choice. In short, you download a CIA client for your system and hook it to your VC server. […]

Rejection : CodeCon, 2005

Dear submitter,
We regret to inform you that we are unable to accept your submission to
CodeCon 2005. We had a much larger number of submissions than we could
accept, and were forced to reject a number of worthy submissions.
Thank you for your interest in the conference.