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Nathan has been tinkering with computers since the days of the Apple II (and still has a working one in the office). Though born in Livonia, Nathan has lived in the U.P. since he was two (his first memory is breaking into the house because his parents forgot the key) and he wouldn’t trade the snow for anything. When he’s not in front of a computer or chasing one of his four kids around, he likes to write and perform music on any instrument he can get his hands on. His interests include reading and watching science fiction, books on theoretical physics and astronomy, and artificial intelligence.

HTML5 and Google pull off something new

October 23, 2010 – 10:07 pm

It’s rare that I’m really impressed by a new music video, or song. Or at least, that I feel like I’m seeing or hearing something new. The same can be said of the Web. Most websites share a majority of common factors in one way or another. The band Arcade Fire, director Chris Milk, and [...]

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Google’s “Instant” Changes

September 21, 2010 – 10:11 pm

Google has a history of being amazingly steadfast about not changing their search home page. While it’s all too easy to give in to the urge and constantly improve and alter one’s website (not that we’d know from personal experience or anything) they have done a good job of remaining easy to use and simple. [...]

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Leading Domain Scammer Gone Bye Bye?

September 9, 2010 – 11:09 pm

It could be that I’m just getting my hopes up… perhaps they are just having a long bout of technical troubles… but it appears that Liberty Domains of America has gone away. (Okay, so it would still make me feel kind of good if it were just major technical troubles.) If you aren’t aware of [...]

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The Mobile Web

September 2, 2010 – 10:18 pm

Mary Meeker from Morgan Stanley has been quoted (quite frequently) as predicting that within the next five years “more users will connect to the Internet over mobile devices than desktop PCs.” Should this come to pass I can’t say that I will be surprised. When the first smart phones were letting people browser the Web [...]

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Facebook after death

August 1, 2010 – 10:45 pm

What happens to your Facebook profile when you die? In the ever increasing world of social media, this question is more likely to be asked. Interestingly enough, since about May of 2007 Facebook has had a policy of memorializing the pages of members who have died, hiding some features like the status updates, and locking [...]

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