Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

I wasn’t the first to say it, but it is something I’ve noticed for a long time in my own social media usage, Twitter is #winning. Twitter has gotten a lot of credit for breaking news stories, for helping activists and rebels organize, and now it has become the favourite of marketers and sports fans. [...]

The last couple days have seen me or other people publish some of my writings on other blogs.  I may do more of this going forward as Muskblog is a bit unfocused to say the least. I’m writing a series of posts on how to start a brewpub in BC.  Now if I only knew [...]

LinkedIn recently had it’s IPO and miraculously it kept going up even after the IPO price had been increased several times.  This seemed to have surprised some onlookers and doomsayers will talk of another ‘tech bubble’.  I don’t think that is likely to happen again as too many people learned too many lessons, however greed [...]

So after telling this tale to Dave prior to the last UFC PPV and confirming just how amazing this set of accomplishments was, it was requested that I type it up for the benefit of those who have less time to waste online looking up football quotations. That’s how I originally found out some of [...]

I finally won a game of Civilization IV on the third difficulty level, not that impressive perhaps, but it took many tries. Civilization IV has been taking up too much of my time and affecting my sleep pattern. I’ve also been watching a lot of hockey on TV, but with the first team eliminated (New [...]