DeWitt Clinton

All I can is that Soma.fm’s 128 kbs “indie pop rocks” audio stream is capable of keeping a dying man alive.
If I’m ever in a coma, please put this on my headphones.

So how cool is this? I’m working on a project right now that involves the design of a handful of parsing algorithms. (I’d be more explicit about what exactly the project is, but because of the nature of the company, I’m obligated to keep things quiet.)
For the past few days I’ve been drafting and [...]

I’m a fan of social networks and friend-of-a-friend networks. Not so much on a personal level (though that was amusing for about 2 months), but rather as a springboard for interesting technologies that are based on trust webs. So please do me a favor and add my Friendster account to your friend list. I’d especially [...]

This is a follow-up to the story on getting a DSL line installed in San Francisco. Unfortunately, seventeen days after starting the process, the tale isn’t over yet.
The good news is that the DSL line is up and running. In fact, I’m getting almost the advertised 1.5/768 bandwidth — and I didn’t even have to [...]

I haven’t used mod_perl in several years. At one point in time I was very involved with the project and the mailing lists, but that all went on hiatus when I joined Site59, which was built on AOLServer and Tcl (not my choice!), and then Travelocity, where I helped lead the (largely successful) effort to [...]

In order to keep my unto.net email address up and running during the move I set the MX records with EasyDNS to redirect everything to my Gmail account.
Gmail does a very good job at catching most spam, and has the best interface I’ve used so far for quickly removing the spam it doesn’t catch. And [...]

Ha. Someone landed on my site searching Google for “Kelly Clarkson,” and then tried again with the search box on the home page.
Let me tell you, that is one artist you’re unlikely to find here…
Though apparently Ms. Clarkson did get mentioned way back in December. I believe the title of that post was “People We’re [...]

Matt Drudge is running an exclusive on Dennis Hastert’s reported call to abolish the Internal Revenue Service. Hastert will apparently “push for replacing the nation’s current tax system with a national sales tax or a value added tax.”
Interestingly, I’m not entirely opposed to this idea. I think there is tremendous waste in government, particularly when [...]

Now this isn’t a particularly profound thought or anything, but I wish there was more competition in the broadband industry. I’m a huge fan of Speakeasy, but getting a DSL line installed with them, or anyone else, is just needlessly time consuming.
A week ago I opened an order for Speakeasy’s Classic OneLink ADSL Basic 1.5/768 [...]