• Google TV: All Your Secrets, Bare!

    Google TV is exactly the kind of myopically-designed device you want to use if you just love the idea of digital voyeurism. I’m not just talking about Google’s infamously horrific privacy practices such as famously sharing user location data even when disabled, geofence-based warrants allowing dragnet approaches to law enforcement, and its claims that you…

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  • Internet Background Radiation

    I’ve run WordPress sites before at small scales, but usually this was through a hosting provider or a small experimental setup. This particular server runs on a budget VPS. After taking time to carefully craft a functional Privacy Policy and Terms of Service (which you should totally read carefully by the way!), I began to…

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  • Spooky Empire, Mini-Convention

    By my big convention standards, Spooky Empire is a mini-con. It doesn’t have enough to fill every hour of a schedule, and for a $50 Saturday ticket I think that’s just about right. The Internet seems a bit dry when it comes to people’s personal experiences with the convention, so I think I’ll briefly share…

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  • Financial Planning: How I Invest

    I know that this is a dry topic for most people, but it’s seriously under served. In high school, I didn’t have any sort of financial education aside from the now-mostly-irrelevant task of balancing a checkbook, highlighting that there’s a difference between when a transaction is authorized and when it posts. I remember some silliness…

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  • Hello world!

    Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! At least, what’s what the default post reads when you stand up a WordPress blog for the first time. But even then, this isn’t really my first time despite how special you remain to me. My first blogs were written…

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