Monthly Archives September 2005

The tangled web of friends
Met Phil in person by chance today at some Biola event with Hugh Hewitt, J.P. Moreland, and John Mark Reynolds. Phil, the creator of Biola’s pilot social networking website, has some great ideas for the future on how social networks should be mapped through a decentralized protocol.

Falconhosting, Inc.
Woot! Having had the first meetings of Directors, Incorporators, Shareholder…
Falconhosting, Inc is as of this morning incorporated in the State of Nevada.
http://falconhosting.net

New Orleans area
My grandparents were allowed to return home. From the pictures it looks like their neighborhood faired well with mostly tree loss and a big mess to clean up. Here’s a shot of a pine tree in front of their house snapped by Katrina.

It looks like Grandpops is happy the house [...]

Bank review #1
ING Direct recently notified its customers about a new secure way to login:

Instead of having you enter in your numeric pin which a keylogger
or acoustic snooping could intercept, a keypad will be displayed where you can click on or type the letters which correspond to the numbers…and they change randomly each [...]

Democrats put their special interests ahead of public will…
“History will record that you betrayed your constituents and their moral and ethical values.” Republican Assemblyman Jay La Suer.
“I say you are betraying the people of California,” said Assemblyman Jay La Suer, R-La Mesa (San Diego County). “You are not leading. You have gone astray.”
Same-Sex Marriage Approved [...]

On the SAVVIS Network

Woo-hoo! Gotta love a network that’s only 2 hops from Dallas to LA.

Business
Observation 2: To avoid patent infringement lawsuits you must patent everything that is remotely related to your business. Patent using a markerboard to share ideas. Patent the use of things such as “dramatic pauses” in a sales pitch. Your startup costs will be high with all these patent fees, but in [...]

Incorporating…
Observation 1: I didn’t realize it was so complicated to do taxes for these entities!