Archive for March 2004

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In SXSW on 26 March 2004 with Comments Off

Last year at SXSW, Heather and I had a conversation we’d had a few times before, about race and gender and geeks and conferences and representation. Et cetera. Except this time, we did it with a camera present.
Chuck Olsen was there working on a documentary about weblogs and caught it on tape (we were [...]

Poster Child

In Clips, Powazek on 20 March 2004 with Comments Off

In the SF Chronicle today: THE BATTLE OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Straights working to win legal rights for gay couples: “They’re straight – but they don’t consider themselves narrow. And now they’re mad…. Among the new activists is Derek Powazek of San Francisco, who headed to Civic Center three days after the weddings began with his [...]

The New New Thing

In Uncategorized on 18 March 2004 with Comments Off

For the past few years, I’ve redesigned powazek.com when the calendar flipped to a new year. Looking at it that way, I’m only three months and eighteen days late. Yay for me!
Welcome to the new Powazek dot com, same as the old Powazek dot com. The idea was just to break out of the bloggy [...]

KnowSpam 300k

In Geek on 17 March 2004 with Comments Off

As you might know from all my previous babblings, I use a service called KnowSpam to filter the spam out of my email. It keeps a tally of how many spam messages it’s saved me from seeing. On Monday, it crossed the threshold into 300,000.
What’s notable about this, besides the sheer volume of it, is [...]

Dogblogging

In Uncategorized on 16 March 2004 with Comments Off

Things the new guy likes:

Walks
The bed
The couch
Us

Things the new guy doesn’t like:

Stairs
Being alone
The camera

Names we almost gave him:

Nemo
Ein
Leo
Whisky Bar
Inky Babinky Butter
Motherfucker

The name we settled on: Bugsley Dante Champ Powazek. But you can call him Bug.

You have been warned

In Uncategorized on 15 March 2004 with Comments Off

Stewart Butterfield is a bad, bad man.

The New Guy

In Uncategorized on 14 March 2004 with Comments Off

Meet the new guy. »
I’ve only been to the SPCA twice. Both times just to look. The first time I came home with a cat.
Heather and I went to the SPCA today. Just to look. And, of course, we can home with a new friend. He’s a 1 year old Chihuahua mix. He’s gentle [...]

Recent Ephemera

In Photos on 13 March 2004 with Comments Off

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And it still hurts

In Uncategorized on 3 March 2004 with Comments Off

Always in threes…

Edwards is Out

In Politics on 2 March 2004 with Comments Off

Well that seals it: Kerry will be the Democratic nominee. He will be will be our Obi Wan to Darth Bush. It’ll be Botox Frankenstein vs. Smirking Chimp. I can feel my brain numbing over already.
Wake me when it’s time to vote again.