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The tech-news side of the Internet is in an uproar because Apple rejected the official Google Voice application for the iPhone and removed other applications that interacted with Google Voice.  I believe that the blocking of the Google Voice application is absurd, probably violates anti-trust laws, and definitely does violate my belief in a neutral [...]

It’s not easy being the angry son-of-a-bitch that my coworkers claim I am. It is a rarity that anyone sides with me when I get into one of my rants. I suppose that might be because agreeing with me will likely only lengthen the time that I bitch about something. But regardless of the reason [...]

Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford University. He chairs the Creative Commons Project and is on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for the Public Domain. He has also written three books about culture, technology, and the laws that tend to mess them up. In short, he has [...]

I updated the version of WordPress that I use to manage this site. The update process went fairly smoothly. There were a few bumps in the road because I had customized the look of my site a whole bunch, but it was fairly trivial to fix and only took around 10 minutes. This new version [...]

My brother bought himself this giant Julius Caesar head. As if that wasn’t ridiculous enough, he had it on lay-a-way for a few days. I can’t handle him sometimes. I told him that he makes my life more and more like the Napolean Dynamite movie all of the time. I finally bought a pro account [...]

This is Brandon right before I showed him this flickr thing. I was playing around at the Creative Commons site and there was a link to this Flickr site. I started playing around with it and it is pretty freaking cool. At the lowest level it is a place to upload a bunch of pictures [...]

I got home this morning and noticed that my house had been covered in toilet paper. My brother is on the volleyball team at his high school, and we’re pretty sure it was the girl’s volleyball team that did it. They did a pretty good job, and my brother is going to have some cleaning [...]

I found myself feeling both bored and motivated, and decided to finish the (re-) design of markdrago.com. I changed the color scheme to something I like, but not something that I thought I would choose. Jamie helped pick out the colors. I actually took the picture on the top of the page after a rather [...]