Category Archives: Geekery

ROFLCon–you can has. Day one liveblogging, updates

Live updates from ROFLcon at MIT in Cambridge! Photos, tweets, geekery. <3
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Age != wisdom: Why does Livejournal keep getting it wrong?

Livejournal versus Yelp: a few thoughts on where LJ is headed
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My new favorite site and a near-brush with celebrity

Gotta blog what you love, right?
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See you at ROFLcon!

This is ROFLcon! I can has ROFLcon? Oh, the memes we’ll say. Oh, the shenanigans we’ll have. I just bought my ticket to ROFLcon—I could never forgive myself for missing out on something this awesome, in my backyard no less. So yes, I’m going to go. I’m going to blog it. I’m going to take [...]
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Quick note

Just realized I should probably expand my LinkedIn network a little more. I know a few old friends and colleagues drop by here from time to time, so if you’re interested, please feel free to add me to your LinkedIn network. Here’s my profile page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/varmazis I also added a LinkedIn widget to my blog’s [...]
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Back from vacation, done with Digg

Vacation recap Hi everyone—sorry for the lack of updates, ever since I got back from my *wonderful* vacation in California, I’ve been swamped with work. Same ol’ story, eh?
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The internets! It knows me!

The flickr greeting I received today was both unintentionally quite funny and a bit unnerving at the same time: click to enlarge the picture Reaction #1 (too-cool-for-this neo-geek-hipster wanna-be snark): O RLY? Reaction #2 (cripplingly self-conscious): is my greek so bad that flickr assumes i don’t even know how to say hello? Reaction I should [...]
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Any veneer of respectability—gone gone gone

I, like any respectable geek, really dig Wil Wheaton’s blog. For the uninitiated, Wil’s the actor who played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, the young ensign that so many loved to hate. Except me, because I wanted to be him. Precocious kid on the same bridge as Captain Picard? Hell yes! Not [...]
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