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Off to Comic-Con; Have Some Links

July 23rd, 2009

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Things have been quiet here this week and will be till Sunday because I'm working at Comic-Con, San Diego's nerdy popular culture explosion at the downtown convention center. If you're in San Diego and going to CC, come say hi to me at The Guild booth #4417, where I'll be helping out selling The Guild DVDs and t-shirts. In the meantime, catch up on stuff I've been posting elsewhere.

• At Lifehacker earlier this month I published How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network's WEP Password with BackTrack and then the follow-up, WEP Cracking Redux: Beyond the Command Line. Both these articles got a huge response, but don't worry, I'm not going blackhat: it was all proof-of-concept.

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Everywhere But Here: June Posts About the Internet

June 30th, 2009

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Rather than put up a new post every time I do something somewhere other than here, I'll save it up and get it all over with in one giant self-promoting shot once a month.

Here's my Mac-heavy byline roundup for June.

• Gmail Power Tools [Macworld]
• Hands On with Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Developer Preview) [Lifehacker]

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What I’m Up To: Joining the Advisory Board at Pelotonics

June 3rd, 2009

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I'm happy to announce that I'm joining the advisory board at Pelotonics, LLC, a startup here in San Diego making a project management web application of the same name. I met founders Troy Malone and Daniel Marashlian last summer at the bonfire meetup I organize here in town, and their energy and enthusiasm impressed me off the bat.

As a product, Pelotonics is both very mature and just getting started. It's live and available for folks to sign up and use, but it hasn't even begun to get the recognition it deserves. My recent informal survey of what project management apps people are using seems to indicate that there's a market for something somewhere in between Basecamp and Microsoft Project. Pelotonics has a great shot at that market.

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