I’m No Longer Friends with You People

If there’s one thing in the world that’s more annoying than spam, it’s MySpace spam.
Most people have probably experienced it, but for those who haven’t, it works like this: some ne’er-do-well creates a bogus profile, then tries to add you as their friend. Why? Once they are your friend, they can use things [...]

Just to clear things up, I don’t knit

I’m always on the lookout for good blogs. Especially good blogs like mine.
I mean, let’s be honest. There are a lot of blogs out there, and not many of them are good. When it comes to “personal” blogs, the pickings are even slimmer. Well-written personal blogs by college students are practically [...]

The Scourge of Google Analytics

Google Analytics, for those of you who don’t know, is Google’s newest attempt at world domination new web statistics tool. It’s currently in beta and is invite-only. I’ve been using Shortstat to keep basic tabs on traffic to my site, but when I finally got an invite to join Google Analytics, I thought [...]

Planet Carleton

Today at lunch a number of members of the blogging and web communities at Carleton had a great meeting (John even dubbed it Carleton BloggerCon 2006). We began to develop a plan for how to promote a unified community of bloggers at Carleton. After discussing a number of possibilities, we agreed that there needs to [...]

In Search of the Perfect Case

Defining cool through the way one protects his stuff is a curious thing, isn’t it? Sort of like evaluating a date by the condoms he brought along…
After losing my last case for my Gigabeat F60 MP3 player, I’ve been in search of a new one. I recently came across this sleeve. It’s fairly similar to [...]