Man doing sign language at Mandela memorial was a fake. “He was basically gesturing. He didn’t follow any of the grammatical rules and structure of the language. He just invented his signs as he went along,” said Delphin Hlungwane, an official South African sign language interpreter at DeafSA. “There was…
Reading RSS feeds from multiple websites in a central, organized location that lets me quickly save items of interest without bothering me about posting to Facebook or telling what my friends are doing is a very important piece of my life. A good, clean RSS reader lets me quickly devour…
It’s been a while since I wrote about my musical endeavors here, so I thought I’d post a quick update. My main band for the last two years has been The Night Trotters, a traditional bluegrass outfit with some top-notch musicians kind enough to join me. We’ve been playing around…
Dear Microsoft, It’s been all over the news this week that Steve Ballmer has decided to step down as CEO. At first this seemed like a decision he had come to by himself, perhaps having felt as if his work here was done. Some started speculating that he was forced…
I’ve been helping Rachael get her new shop up and running, and the culmination of our efforts have arrived. Announcing the brand new Nerdy & Hip! We totally redid her website and added a full-fledged shopping cart experience to it. This will let her conduct more sales directly, not just…