Startup Digest Launches For New Orleans
In the midst of article writing for NewOrleans Tech and stressing out a little about the SXSWi panel, Taylor Davidson sends me a somewhat cryptic e-mail along the lines of “Startup Digest coming to New Orleans. Want you to be on board. Good stuff for NOLA”. But knowing Taylor, he always has good intentions and whatever he was talking about must have been worth me listening to....
Read MoreSXSW 2010 Iron Geek Champion
I’m very competitive. I’m also very lazy but I love a challenge, which is confusing in itself. At SXSWi (a tech/geek conference), I was wandering around when I saw “Compete In The First Ever SXSWi Iron Geek Contest”. You’ve heard of Iron Chef, right? Well think of this as the Iron Chef for Geeks. The contest was only supposed to be four people but at the last...
Read MoreNetscape Composer: How I Love Thee
The year was 1997. I had my own computer a couple years before that but never had the Internet. It wasn’t until the summer before I started high school that I was introduced to AOL and 56K modems. I had to stay with my godfather during the summer of ’97 and he was always up on the latest technology. I still remember it like it was yesterday. He sat me down in front of his...
Read MoreMinority Weirdos Guest Post: 5 Life Lessons I’d Like To Teach My Son
Us At Mardi Gras My good friend, Shercole runs a site called Minority Weirdos (I know it sounds weird but it’s really cool) and asked me to write a post about fatherhood and gave me this topic. While it was hard to narrow it down to just 5 things, I tried to touch on the main points. Check out the article on her site below: Minority Weirdos Guest Post: 5 Life Lessons I’d Like...
Read MoreConversations With My Son: The Lost Dog Edition
There was a lost dog in our neighboord because someone stuck a flyer on our door. I sometimes forgot what’s common knowledge to me isn’t common knowledge to my son (a 4 year old). This is the “Lost Dog” conversations: Him: Hey, there is a paper on our door. Me: Yea I know, somebody lost a dog. Him: Can we have it? Me: No, it’s not our to keep. Whoever owned the...
Read MoreA New Addition To Our Family: Chloe
About a month and half ago, my laptop started falling apart. I had been having battery issues and my attemps to fix it where null and void. On top of that the screen started to come off the hinge. It was the battery and charger that did it in. I tried purchasing brand new parts but to no avail, it just wouldn’t work out and became more of a dekstop than laptop. It was one of those...
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