This post has two purposes. 1) it’s an continuation of My Toolkit post in order to increase exposure in how I get my work done, and 2) it’s a call for help.
My Firefox recently turned into molasses. It’s slower than usual in general, but it’s particularly hanging every time I open a new tab. [...]

I threw my hat in the ring to lead a panel at SXSW 2008. Go vote for me (login required, but I promise it’s painless).
After hosting the second iteration of the Facebook Developers Hackathon with Amit Gupta at USV, I’ve found myself having the same conversation a lot: “In light of the Facebook platform, [...]

Perez Hilton has been claiming for a week now that Castro is dead. I would never normally visit Perez Hilton, but I found out via Twitter that Perez Hilton was breaking this story.
So, just to review, I found out one of the most important news stories of 2007 from A TRASHY GOSSIP BLOG… via [...]

After just blogging about my use of HopStop yesterday, and I was interested to see that Google is going to launch a subway mapping service. I am particularly interested in seeing how HopStop (currently the best NYC subway maps web service) responds to this. Google is directly entering their space, and I wonder [...]

In performing my job, there are a few resources that are indispensable.

Funding news sites like alarm:clock, PEHub, and VentureBeat are good for keeping up with industry gossip and latest valuations.
My feed reader (formally Bloglines, now Google Reader) is more important than any individual blogs I follow.
TechMeme makes me efficient at keeping up with [...]

I was surprised to browse my blog today and find that the background of the site was black and there was a PHP shell script located in my sidebar. See screenshots at the bottom of the post.
Someone replaced my the contents of my WordPress sidebar.php file with a PHP shell. So, I swapped [...]

Wow… there’s a mountain of interesting new CDs being released this week. I’m particularly excited about Caribou, The New Pornographers, and Architecture in Helsinki.
The past two Caribou albums have been in heavy rotation for over a year straight. I’m particularly excited about more material on that front.
Two tastes from new albums:
*New* Architecture in [...]

It looks like the MTA has comissioned a Facebook app: Subway Status. It’s an interesting idea, but in execution it looks like another example of why web 2.0 behaviors rarely crossover and achieve mainstream adoption.
On the Subway Status app users can:

Choose their regular subway and network with other riders of the same line.
Get up-to-date [...]

I must have dropped my digital camera through a portal to another dimension (note: I did not drop my camera) because it’s now possessed by demons.
Check out the output on both pictures and video. It’s a silver-lining to the unfortunate fact that I now need to handle this problem. :(
Video:

My Digital Camera is Possessed [...]