There’s
some phenomenal password research here
from clarkson.edu that talks about common passwords found during Internet
attacks.

I’ve taken those entries and put them into a single list
here on Github, and I will soon…

A while back I posted about having experiences through books. I was thinking
again about this today and was imagining a rock-climbing experience.

I myself have never been rock climbing, but I have a feeling of it from a
few…

I think a lot about customer service. Or, what I really mean is that I get
angry a lot about customer service.

I’m not speaking of the declining competence of tech support for a phone or
Internet service, but more about thi…

America is wide open and trusting. This shouldn’t change.

The idea of stopping terrorist attacks from occurring is simply asinine in
this light, as it’s just too easy to walk into a mall and cause havoc.

The message to terrorist…

Or, at least according to
23andMe. When they show racial breakdowns they only show three categories:
African, European, and Asian.

Having grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area and being nearly fluent in
Spanish, I had …

This is an essay
about being productive to the world around you.

Confused, you say, “How does any of that fucking matter when my
(wife/husband/best friend/parent) is lying here bleeding! I need somebody
who knows how to…

Sam Harris’s book on free will
came out today and I read it during dinner (it’s a short read). Here’s what
I had to say about the book back in December when he announced it:

Without arrogance or humility I can only say that…

For those not aware,
Hacker Dojos
are local groups found in high-tech areas that get many people together and
have them code–or learn to code–together. The idea is that you describe your
strengths and interests, and the organ…

Before going into my qualms with Daniel Dennett’s
capability/evitibility-based free will, I want to point out that most
supporters of Daniel Dennett’s brand of free will don’t realize that he
agrees that we don’t have my brand of…

I wrote a few years ago about
the only way I knew of to become immortal. Basically, it was the simple concept of understanding the brain well
enough to transfer its characteristics to a digital form before dying.
Check it out
…