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Clean Environment Players: It’s Economics Stupid

By Adam Pieniazek on July 25, 2010

The problem doesn’t lie with just governments, corporations or humans or any other single entity. It’s a complete and systemic failure of humanity. For all of our wonderful inventions and advances, the net impact on this planet and our place in the universe has undoubtedly been negative. We’ve taken, taken and taken and given so little back.

Posted in Economics | Tagged change, corporations, environment, Government | Leave a response

Yes, A New Theme!

By Adam Pieniazek on July 19, 2010

You may have noticed this site’s look changed drastically overnight. The site was due for a new look and the last few days’ GPL and Thesis discussions pushed me to make a change ASAP. At the same time, Justin Tadlock released Outline, a new child theme for Hybrid that is quite pleasant on the eyes [...]

Posted in Blog | Tagged google reader, hybrid, outline | 2 Responses

Is It Boston?

Is It Boston?

By Adam Pieniazek on June 29, 2010

For far too long we have had to simply wonder am I in Boston, with no definitive answer. But, those dark days are long behind us friends as I’m proud to announce the universe-wide launch of Is It Boston? The site does one thing and one thing only, tells you if a zip code is [...]

Posted in Boston | Tagged Aquapacolypse, Boston, code, data, site launch, zip codes | 2 Responses

The Videogame Car

By Adam Pieniazek on April 30, 2010

Anyone who has played a videogame with driving in it will appreciate this video. In it a scientifical test is run where two drivers attempt to drive a car with a third person camera mounted on the car. All the windows are blacked out so the drivers can only use the third person view.

As if it really needed to be said but…

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!

Posted in Video | Tagged car, funny, grand theft auto, third person, videogame | 1 Response

Lessons Learned from an Accidental rm -rf *

Lessons Learned from an Accidental rm -rf *

By Adam Pieniazek on February 13, 2010

One of the main principles that’s been hammered into me from lectures and experience over my 15+ years of computing is backup, backup, backup. It becomes even more crucial when you start hosting sites, especially sites for other people. On all the servers we run, we backup site and database files nightly, with automated syncs [...]

Posted in Apple | Tagged backups, mac os x, recovery, rm -rf*, terminal, unix | 4 Responses

WordCamp Boston 2010

WordCamp Boston 2010

By Adam Pieniazek on January 23, 2010

As I mentioned on Justin’s blog the other day, I’m off to WordCamp Boston 2010 today! The Boston organizers have put together a great schedule and I’m pumped to meet some fellow WordPress enthusiasts and talk shop. I’ll post an update about the conference tommorow, in the meantime if you’re going to be at WordCamp [...]

Posted in Boston | Tagged conference, wordcamp 2010, wordpress | 1 Response

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