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As a child, a friend of mine (my Attorney) and I were in the local paper for building a sprawling Lego city across my rumpus room.
This morning, my son continued the legacy, by winning a bring-your-own-Lego(tm) Transformer(tm)-construction competition.
The Asheville Citizen-Times wrote it up nicely.
HENDERSONVILLE – For Noah McWhirter, building Lego figures just comes natural.
“I just […]

If you Google around enough, with diligence and creativity in your search terms, plus a dash of willingness to check out page 12 of the results, you just might find some value provided by your government.
For example, I’ve been trying to spruce up the overgrown, dreary and downright treacherous shrubs, bushes and vines littering my […]

This week I’m dropping by the recording studio where my friend Sean is recording an album for his local Asheville band The Propheteers. He, Joe and Mason are cranking it out. I, a man who spends his daylight hours leveraging synergies as an engineering manager, hanging with the band helps me reclaim some […]

Does causing a bajillion machines to reboot constitute a DDoS attack?
The reason behind Skype’s downtime this week looks somewhat like this image of a malicious DDoS attack, no?
Attacker: Microsoft
Handlers: Windows Upgrade Servers
Zombies: Windows users!
Victim: Skype
Just sayin’.

I just unsubscribed from a pushy seed company’s daily email newsletter.

Really? 72 business hours? There are 8 business hours a day, 40 in a week (good thing they aren’t French). That could take up to 9 business days, which is a minimum of 11 calendar days.
Could be as many as 13, if you […]

Yesterday, Seth Godin blogged about going beyond “good enough,” if you’re trying to do something extraordinary.
Today, WebWorkerDaily blogged about the joys of “satisficing” and settling for “good enough.”
And my dad always says “the enemy of ‘good’ is ‘better’,” such that if you have something good, many times you screw it up by trying to make […]

While doing some work around my house, I found our old coal chute, which had been boarded over and backfilled with coal.
I now have a barrow full of coal.
How does one dispose of a barrow full of coal? Google only leads me to methods and facilities for recycling coal ash. Converting coal into […]

Mike “JIRA JIRA JIRA” Cannon-Brookes pinged me on IM tonight to let me know that Atlassian has acquired Cenqua. Cenqua, as you might know, makes the fancy-dandy FishEye product for viewing source repositories. Atlassian is the Australian wiki/bug-tracking giant run by stylish surfers.
Congrats to both groups. I enjoyed having beers with the […]