Geekery

In case you want to type less letters when you email me, I can now also be reached at cyrus [at] farivar [dot] eu . Sometime within the next 24 hours, farivar.eu will forward to my blog.

Apparently because of the genius of my previous post, Om Malik asked me to convert it into a longer entry for his blog. And so I did. He now owes me a sandwich.

So my AT&T (formerly SBC) DSL costs me $40 a month for DSL service and a landline phone that I never use. My contract is up in early June, so I decided to explore my options for DSL in the area. I don’t want Cable, because I don’t need the TV service, as I don’t have a TV. What I found out: – Comcast will sell you just Internet for $60/month. In the words of Om Malik “Not bad for…

MuniWireless.com: BART/Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (CCPJA), the operators of the Capitol Corridor commuter train, are asking the telecommunications industry to help them take the next big step in providing mobile broadband services, including Internet, email, Virtual Private Network (VPN) access, video downloads and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to their riders’ laptops, PDAs and cell phones—while the Capitol Corridor train is moving at full speed between Auburn and San Jose. Results of the initial technical trials will lead toward…

My good friend and fellow (although he cringes when I say it) journalist Paul Boutin has this Web 2.0 shakedown today in Slate. And if you don’t know what Web 2.0 is, or think that it’s yet-another-meaningless-buzzword, read on: Beyond that, publicists and self-promoters invoke Web 2.0 whenever they want to tag something as new, cool, and undiscovered—”This could be a big story for you, Paul!” That kind of hucksterism is what sends editors reaching for their blue pencils. Prior…

My piece from The Economist was linked on Digg.com today!

So I’m not the No. 1 “Cyrus” on Google, but I am the No. 1 “Farivar”. If you want to link to my blog with just my first name to increase my Google PageRank, feel free. 🙂

Alright, alright, so I’m a little slow on the Chronicles of Narnia SNL rap. But it’s damn great. Now children, as an excercise, let’s compare blog/media coverage of this event: NYT: Publication Date: December 27, 2005 Summary: Two white guys create the startup version of comedy. The Web helps them to get famous. Best line: And Mr. Samberg found himself in the delicate position of having to explain to his mother that the song’s chorus is a play on words…

I found this on diggdot.us today, the iTunes Signature Maker, a web program that analyzes your music in your iTunes library and spits out a 15 second “audio signature”, a sort of weird but cool artificial mix of your music. Mine is here. Included in it (in order) are excerpts from these works: The New Pornographers – Miss Teen Wordpower Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. I, Mvt. 1 The New Pornographers – Jackie, Dressed in Cobras Matchbox 20 – 3…

Michael Rice (a buddy of mine from J-School) points to the fact that Columbia has renamed their email system: I’m flattered. 😉