Hi again everyone! You probably noticed I'm not blogging on LiveJournal anymore. Actually I haven't done much blogging at all in the past couple of months. Well I'm back! But now I'm on my new website; in a move many of you will find obvious, past-due, or perhaps just annoying, I've registered my *legal* name for my new website. Please update ( Read more... )

Hey everyone. This is "important".

I started a new LiveJournal account:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/brendanavery

I'm just sick of using sa1nt as my account name. It doesn't feel like "me" anymore (did it ever?) I thought I'd grow into it but I'm just done with trying to have a nickname -- especially one I made up that makes everyone go ( Read more... )

I haven't used Intranets.com for more than 5 years now, but I recently checked out their website to see how they might have improved their system since their inception and I spotted this sweet isometric animated gif explaining the Intranets.com ASP model to people that might be new to the concept. I thought it was cool anyways:

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Also, I finally just started using del.icio.us, and I think I immediately get why this is so awesome. I won't bother explaining why its cool. Use it for a day and you'll get it too.

Seriously -- Oh HELL Yes. You have to try this out

Going to a Bitter Tears show tonight at Cal's. Perhaps photos, video, and/or audio to come. It's kinda dark there-- so maybe just audio.

From Reuters -- Dateline Athens"The driver said 'kids we've got porn, do you want to watch it'," one of the pupils told reporters on Thursday. "Everyone started shouting yes, yes and he just put in a tape and we watched it on the small TV screens on the bus."

The children were aged 12 to 15.
Oh you just know somebody's getting a beatdown by the ( Read more... )

These guys have always been my fav little dudes in the monkey kingdom. The award for the coolest hair ever goes to the Tamarin monkeys:

Cotton-Top Tamarin aka Cool-Ass Mohawk Tamarin

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In reviewing the available technologies for performing query notations/engines for processing RDF-Triples (not wanting to reinvent the wheel) I have decided that as a developer -- the first thing I want to see when looking at a tech spec are some examples -- not some friggin BNF table of syntax token rules. Give me flavor first, tokens and rules ( Read more... )

Strange places the internet takes you when you let it. While mulling over different name ideas for my WikiLikeThing, my quick google for alternative names for "lotus" brings "kamala" which in turn brings up a page about a child named "kamala" on a website devoted to Feral Children. I love lunchtime.