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<@dreww> dead is the natural state of the human being. everything else is cleverness.


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<_joshua> don't take shit from anyone
<_joshua> it is the only attitude that scales

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Oct 1, 2007 - Hire me to do something...

I have effectively been running an unfunded think tank for the past several years. I've created a presentation of 'things from my head' filled with high octane ideas for a low knock world, and I am available for training and speacking, projects, consulting, work on startups, or possible full time employment. I'm a high powered technologist and idea wrangler. Co-author of Mapping Hacks and Google Maps Hacks, and expert in the skills of the modern age. Email me: rich@testingrange.com, or Look at my resume.

Mon, 01 Aug 2005

posted in /general Tagging is the new black

Everything is better with tags. I just printed up business cards for OSCON. I put my name, and Locative Technologis, and then a bunch of tags:

oscon2005 perl geowanker gps geocoder mysql postgis linux osx apache photo d70 make google gmaps maps _mapping hacks_ author ajax community networking wifi nocat fablab dorkbot

I am amazed both at how many there are, and how many things are not on that list. It is mostly focused on the geek side of my life, no mention of the kids for example, but it isn't just professional tags. So what isn't on the list? There are things not on the list because I didn't think of them, or they didn't seem relevant, and many other things that just don't seem to apply to my current areas of focus.

How many things are there that don't apply to me? music, art, philosophy, ethics, economics, finance, physics, medicine, biology, etc etc.

And I think most of what isn't on the list is pretty darn interesting. But you get to pick things, or you just become the sort of people who picks certain things, and there you are.

Hot or Not now has personals. I was surfing it because there is a hot or not google map hack-it probably won't make it in, but it is a hack.

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