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2025 1

  1. Jessica’s Crabby Editor

2024 1

  1. AI talk – Le Salon Duval @ Kava Culture Key West

2023 4

  1. No AI, thank you – Publishing Sidetrack Key – Epilogue
  2. The great epub adventure. Publishing Sidetrack Key
  3. Sidetrack Key – Part 2 -How to Publish the Print Version
  4. Title & Cover-Part One-Publishing Sidetrack Key

2014 5

  1. A tiny bit of history…
  2. 12 helpful tips (and a few scripts) for AWS
  3. What I learned publishing No Name Key – part 2 – The Cover
  4. What I learned publishing No Name Key – part 1 – Content
  5. Privacy and Security on the Internet circa 2014

2013 2

  1. Snowden blew it.
  2. Happy New Year. Resolution: save money on Amazon AWS using xlogs.

2012 20

  1. YC funding cut in half – $150K to $80K
  2. Wiki Migration Hell: From Socialtext to Confluence
  3. Review: The AMEX Bluebird / Serve card…
  4. Hell Yeah! Hacking at 50.
  5. Udid it… 350K hits on a little server in less than 24h
  6. Cross Platform Mobile Development tools and my latest invention…
  7. Painful lessons – Porting Centos 5.8 from Virtualbox to Amazon EC2
  8. Twitter – create the Defensive Patent Foundation now!
  9. Patents don’t silence little girls… but infringment makes them cry.
  10. A couple of thoughts about patents…
  11. How much cloud do you *really* need?
  12. three simple rules for geeks
  13. fear, loathing and coding
  14. We sold out…
  15. Virtual Private Servers – the Wild West of Hosting
  16. Depression, SAD, and Zhineng Qigong
  17. Software patents and pony dung…
  18. hacking, inventing, and standup comedy
  19. thank heaven for little trolls… cause little trolls get bigger every day…
  20. cloud storage as a linux filesystem