A little geek humor for you on this dreary Friday afternoon. This photo was taken by Jeremy Kenning and posted to Flickr. Enjoy your weekend!

Everyone in any industry or career has a set of tools they use to do their job. My job is a little odd in that I have my hands in development as well as systems. A developer can say I use these sets of tools while a sysadmin has different needs. I have them all. [...]

Matt is complaining about Alexa turning off their API, for all intents and purposes, and turning itself into a walled garden. My question is does it really matter? Does Alexa really matter? I love going to industry events and listening to PR people jibjab about Alexa rankings and using it as a metric of popularity [...]

I really screwed up and before you all get mad at me, please accept my apologies. I just did the unthinkable, and something I have been angry at others for doing – I mass invited my entire Gmail address book to Facebook. Great, if you want to join and mark me as a friend, then [...]