I read the Hao Hao Report. A website that no longer shares stories exclusively about China. I haven’t subscribed to their RSS feed for a long time, I’m not an active user. I’m not an old China hand or am I?

Last night I went to Net Tuesday’s event. It was good and very well attended, but none of the speakers addressed how locational based services (LBS) could be used for social good…

Is not what I want to be doing now, or ever. I don’t like PHP. I never wanted to program in PHP. I’m just unemployed so I decided to build something and PHP is available on my webhost. Not finding very good examples or code out there I ended up writing a lot of PHP. So much I just started adding features and methods that might be of use to someone someday…

I’ve been a gamer almost all my life, but I’ve never been an official beta tester until now. I tried to get on the alpha or beta test list for Civ World, but my Facebook friends didn’t sign up in droves to the Van City Allstars. I’ve known people who were beta testers, even authors of gaming rule books or games…

Not the sexiest use of my Christmas and Birthday money I know. I could have bought an X-Box or a PS3 or a Blue-Ray player for less. I even splurged for the Best Buy extended warranty…