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Happy Valentine’s Day! 20 Geeky Valentines <3

Happy Valentine’s Day! It is a tradition at work to create Valentine’s Day cards and share them with each other. I have been scouring the web for some geeky Valentines to share with my coworkers and I thought I would share them with you here as well. Enjoy! Super Hero Valentines Cat Lady Valentines Web Geek Valentines Sci-Fi Valentines …And One Just Regular Science Valentine Lots of LO Read More!

Tour of Austin Comic & Toy Shops: A Recap with Pictures!

On the Road Heading to Austin! Road Trip to Austin for Jason’s Birthday! In celebration of Jason’s birthday, we spent Labor Day weekend in Austin visiting friends and exploring. We spend time in Austin every year for Austin City Limits Music Festival, but don’t get to see much else outside of Zilker park and the hotel. Our goal was to see as many Comic Books & Toy Shops as possible! Day 1 – North Austin As there wa Read More!

Dries Keynote at SchipulCon on Drupal & Open Source

I am thrilled to see Dries Buytaert – the Belgian Geek best know for creating the Drupal Content Management System Schipul builds several of our client websites on – speak at SchipulCon today. I thought I would share my notes from the talk. The video of the talk will be up on SchipulCon.com very soon. Drupal Origins Drupal started 10 years ago by accident. Dries said, “I just wanted to spend a few days creating a message boa Read More!

My New HTC Evo

The iPhone 4 is a really cool phone, with lots of cool features (flash camera! multitasking! Face time!) and a much faster processor than my 2 generation old iPhone 3G. And the new iPhone OS4 is designed for this technological masterpiece. But what about the rest of us? After upgrading the OS on the 3G, my phone just couldn’t handle it. It was slow moving and my apps crashed as often as they didn’t. Not to mention the occasions whe Read More!

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Wordcamp Houston – Takeaways & The Rebirth of Slick

Simply chasing cool is a really bad idea; inspired by cool is a great idea. Don’t do it because you research it, do it because you breathe it. Russell Simmons I had a great time at Wordcamp Houston at the Houston Museum of Natural Science! Today was Wordcamp Houston! It was great to see WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg back in his hometown keynoting (full keynote video available here), and I always love spending time with the Hous Read More!

Nerd Stuff in Houston

My sister is both a poor college student and a bona fide nerd (she has the Anime Convention photos and Batgirl tattoo to prove it). So in planning her visit to Houston later this month, she specifically requested “nerd stuff.” I originally compiled this list for her, but I want to share! Here’s my list of must-see Houston nerd adventures: 1. Comic Book Shopping I love comic book shops. My favorite in Houston is Bedrock City C Read More!

The Inside Workings of Funny or Die at SXSW

Recap of the SXSW panel – Inside FunnyorDie.com ~ http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/7887 Panelists are Richard Glover, CEO of Funny or Die – Andrew Steele, Chief Creative Officer (writer at SNL for 13 years) “The secret to the internet is swearing – especially kids cursing – and naked women” – Andrew Steele “I really think we are at a point where there is a creative explosion… every one of yo Read More!