Seattle Events Wrapup
For a while there all the events and conferences I was seeing was just more corporate branding. So, I tried to help a bunch of people do cool things in […]
Tag Archives: culture
Monopoly Customer Service
After a few years of avoiding the cable industry, I went ahead and signed up for Comcast Highspeed2Go, a new bundled service where they resell Clearwire and combine it with […]
The Politics of Respect
There is a lot of perennial talk of social engineering and direct project/resource management. Attempts to solve complicated political situations with manipulation or a slick widget tend not to work […]
Best of 26c3
Here is my list of the most important talks of the 26th Chaos Communication Congress [26C3] held in Berlin, Germany that was held last week. Since my German language skills […]
On hackers, maturity, and the international market
There has been several published works on the what the media calls hackers, the hacker underground, the information security industry, and the technorati class in general lately. Here are a […]
Toorcamp: Hacking HR
Toorcamp was many things this year. It was fun. It was uncomfortable. Dustdevils ate things occasionally. It was turbulent due to the trouble with Levitate to get hackers to help […]
Things I thought that I knew about: coffee
Previous to moving to Seattle, I thought that I knew something about coffee. My grandparents had seriously oldschool coffee every morning. They would load up a percolator full of folgers […]
Bad Penny 