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From the Inside TWiT Blog: I’ve known Tom Merritt for more than a decade – since the grand old days at TechTV. He’s a trusted colleague and I consider him a dear friend. When Tom moved to LA last year we agreed to try having him anchor his shows from Southern California via Skype. We’ve…

Undoubtedly, you’ve played Uno (or the less commercial variant Crazy Eights) at some point in your life. It’s quite unlikely that you’ve ever played Hot Death Uno, though, unless you happen to have stumbled across this game on the early Internet, downloaded it to your Windows PC, and played it. It’s basically like playing Uno…

I was looking at the page views for some of the posts I’ve put up on this blog and the”>http://phoneboy.info/a-shoebox-of-memories”>the one where my wife brought back a shoebox full of memories from Hawaii to me seems unusually popular. Quite honestly, I’m not sure why since it really wasn’t intended to be something I expected a…

If my mother and grandmother were alive today, that’s how old they’d be. Because, you see, they shared a birthday. Just like my dad and I shared one. I’m not sure when or exactly where in Hawaii this photo was taken but it was clearly taken while my grandma was still able to get around…

There were a lot of photos in that shoebox my wife brought back from Hawaii. Including an entire album full of photos from my high school graduation. Like this photo with my mom: In many ways, this graduation was an accomplishment for both of us. Obviously, I had to do all the academic work involved.…

Looking through a lot of the old photographs my mom had has certainly been entertaining and quite a walk down memory lane. Some weren’t really memories since some of the photos were from when I was a baby, though I can recognize the house I first lived in in those photos. Some of the photos…

My wife just got back from Hawaii. No, it wasn’t a pleasure trip. I would hardly call going through my dead mother’s house to find paperwork and a few personal mementos pleasurable. Especially when you consider the amount of stuff my mother had and the general state of her house. While my wife brought back…

When I was growing up, I only knew one mother. I had a step-mother also, but that’s not what I’m talking about here. I’m talking about the second person inside my mother–a person I didn’t “see” too much growing up, but became more apparently as I graduated college and started my own life. At first,…

AudioMo is a regular challenge to get people to post audio to the Internet, posting with the hashtag #audiomo. This year, it happened during the month of July. Since I participated this year, and I already produce a regular daily podcast called PhoneBoy Speaks, I produced entries specific for AudioMo using the ADN app Chimp,…

When I first started supporting Check Point FireWall-1–which is what the product was back in 1996, this is what the User Interface looked like. A lot has changed in those days. For one, it doesn’t run on SunOS or Solaris anymore. Management still runs on Solaris, but not in R75.40VS or R76 and above. And…