tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85914592024-01-31T01:15:40.513-08:00"The wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game..." -- Direwolf, The Grateful DeadDirewolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06183100446905047863noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591459.post-1115707409698969422005-05-09T23:40:00.000-07:002005-05-09T23:43:29.726-07:00

Where is all of this privacy erosion heading we ask? Well the following link provides one scenario that as you listen to it doesn't seem so completely unlikely, but is pretty scary to say the least. Check out: http://www.aclu.org/pizza/It does make you wonder why so many people are so adamant about taking away all of our civil liberties.

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Identity being federated. Identity relating to Java and security. Identity relating to social trends. Identity intersecting mobility. These were the themes raised at tonight's Mobile Monday event, (for more about Mobile Monday go here). The first theme was discussed by Simon Nicholson from the Liberty Alliance. While this presentation had plenty to say about technology and about how

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From the Race Organizers:Subject: World's First Upwind Kitesurfing Race St Francis Yacht ClubApril 21, 2005San FranciscoThe St Francis Yacht Club hosted the world's firstupwind Kitesurfing race this afternoon.13 entrants (12 men and a woman) approached the start line atapproximately 5:45PM for the world's first Kitesurfingrace with an upwind start. The course was once around,and included a

Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591459.post-1113775142232945872005-04-17T14:59:00.000-07:002005-04-17T14:59:02.233-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } SoHo Doo-Wap Street Musicians, originally uploaded by direwolff. What a great day it was in New York City today. There was a certain energy that reminds me of why I love this place so. No matter how long

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I've never been satisfied with myself or my achievements, and blogging has been no exception to this lack of self fulfillment. I'm working at not being so hard on myself for everything I do, but no matter how good I get at anything, as soon as I see someone else doing it better, a shadow comes over me and I feel unaccomplished. During the time I've stayed away from blogging, part of this was

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Last night at the Great American Music Hall here in San Francisco, four great American musicians sat down and made for an unforgetable night of acoustical sounds of music. The evening started with G.E. Smith, (for those of you not familiar with him, he was mostly seen as the musical conductor for the "Saturday Night Live" orchestra where he wailed the blues on his electric guitar in and out of

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Too funny not to share given that it was reported by the uber conservative pseudo-news mouthpiece of our current administration FAUX News...no, no, I mean FOX...sorry, slipped there, you know I'm fluent in french, don't you? ;-) This story is kind of like one of those "I told you so"s by the merry pranksters that needed the test of time to demonstrate..."New clues about Alzheimer's disease have

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So in thinking of why I blog a few reasons come to mind. One is that I find it quite therapeutic to get my thoughts out there, and not necessarily because I'm seeking the approval of others but because I want to consider myself a genuine person willing to expose where he stands (or sits :-) in the world. It's part of the "get to know me" philosophy which says that if you're interested in

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After having worked with many entrepreneurs in my life and having had the opportunity to see both good leaders and bad ones, there's one comment no leader should ever have to make..."let me lead". In my youth how one became a leader was an abstract idea to me. Sure in some cases people voted for this person, in other cases it just seemed like every one followed one individual who perhaps had

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How ironic that on my last post I would choose to quote Hunter S. Thompson, and here only a few days later it would be reported that the creator of gonzo journalism had committed suicide. A friend sent an e-mail about this calling Thompson a coward for this act of escapism, but I prefer to view it much as he lived his life...on his ownterms. His life was a cause on to itself and he called out

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Nothing like a good Hunter S. Thompson quote to keep things in perspective.Looks like U.S. House of Representative James Moran, D-Va., may have read my blog posting from October 4th, 2004 titled "Cialis, Viagra, Levitra...oh-hey!". Of course he went down to the wrong conclusion but who can blame the poor sap, he's a congressman, and what can we expect from these guys.If you have a sense of humor

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Let me preface the following letter by saying that Emily is one of my dear friends with whom I enjoyed spending time down in Costa Rica. While down there she read the following letter from her grandma out loud and had us rolling by the end of it. What made this even more precious was that her grandmother is 80 years old ...yes 80! After hearing it through I knew this deserved to be shared as

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Today was to be my last riding day before having to pack up and catch an early flight tomorrow morning. It started out somewhat auspiciously with northern winds clocking in at close to 40 mph...ouch! Basically, that meant we were spectating this morning. Fortunately, my trusty Atlas Shrugged just got into high gear at around page 400 and the conditions made it easy for me to focus my attention

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So today was a day full of adventure, some of it breathtaking, some of it literally took your breath away...but more about the latter in a moment.As always, started the day with the crew over a yummy breakfast, today's was fried eggs and oatmeal. This helps inspire the day's decisions on what we will likely do and we get to discuss what the wind conditions look like. Things seemed to be

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Last night two new guests from the Bay area joined the adventure. Brit and I were acquainted from Sherman Island kiting out by Rio Vista, his buddy John was a new acquaintance. Both were, needless to say, very psyched to experience Costa Rican kitesurfing. We all got up pretty early, around 7:30am, and the conditions looked like yesterday's afternoon weather...perfect 11m riding. Decided to

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So the morning started out on a very happy note, with Emily cooking up an awesome fritata. One of those you gotta see it to believe it, so here you go (I couldn't resist)... "Yummy!!!" So we hung tight most of the morning, which gave a lot of time to make some headway on my Ayn Rand book...and with a 1000+ page book, every little moment you can get ahead on your reading helps towards the

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Well, here it is 6:35pm, as we sit contemplating dinner I figured I'd take this opportunity to provide an update on the afternoon happenings. Quite the chain of events, but ultimately amazing and we've got some of the pics to prove it :-) First off, Jeff decided to brave it out at around noon when the winds were still howling, 35+ mph easily. Well, his ride wasn't without it's share of mishaps

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Today, Scotty Cox and I got off to a nice early start...9:00am...and guess what, it was windy...again...(can you believe I'm riding with kid 20 years younger than me who has been riding just as long but can now throw handle passes like it's nobody's business)... It was a wonderful morning and the winds seemed to be a bit steadier and seemingly backed off a bit from yesterday. Well, that was

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Another crazy afternoon on the water. While we had hoped and expected the winds to drop a bit today, Mother Nature had other plans. Jeff was our "wind dummy" today, braving it out on his 6.5m kite. For those new to the sport of kitesurfing, you should understand that in the Bay area we generally ride any where from 10 meter sized kites to 16 meters. A 6.5m kite represents nearly three kite

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Finally got to my destination last night, and got to see my friends Emily, Jeff and Scott's smiling faces from the fact that they have been living on a small slice of paradise. In last night's pitch black night you could see constellations that only the darkest of skies will reveal...but in the morning, the view of Nicaragua, the green waters, the small island suspended in the bay between Costa

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...testing, check-check...1-2, 1-2... Well, here I am at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport...man, that's tough to say with a serious face with all the irony and absurdity behind this name. And the gall to call it “intercontinental”, it couldn't be called "international" like all the other airports that have flights that go to other countries. What's more absurd here is, who flies

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Just caught a Dec. 22nd post on Roger McNamee's blog named "The New Normal" per his recent book, that continues a theme I like to harp on. Thought it worthwhile to share this along the lines of my postings on communities and friends and the one referencing John Perry Barlow's blog.

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So after hearing about and following the posts about what Technorati is doing with tags, hearing our developers talk about the importance of tags and of tagging all components of the content on Tribe, I started thinking about Google's position in all of this. Even more, I started thinking about what's missing in all of this, and then decided to share these thoughts. Because my thoughts can

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For online communities to work, there's a need for a trust network to grow within the membership. The advantage that the social networking sites have claimed they could bring to communities is the idea that by connecting to people as "friends" this would imply some level of endorsement between the linked participants. Even if the "friends" have never met face-to-face, the fact that they have

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Tonight I decided to surf through some blogs I like to keep up with but have been neglecting as of late due to my current work schedule. The closer I got to reading John Perry Barlow's "Barlowfriendz" blog the more I began to get excited like a little kid about to get some candy. Something about Barlow's expressions and how he writes, that inspires wonderful images inside my head and delivers

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