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Desert trek

Kerry and I left last Wednesday morning at 6am and drove to Wells, Nevada and spent the night in a Super8 Motel, the only one in the area that would take our traveling buddies (ziggy the fat orange cat and joey the aussie cattle dog). The town was a dive. I know this because the […]

October 1, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

Ahmadinejad

I think free speech is the greatest thing about the USA. It’s what makes this country a true democracy and it’s the benchmark of any country claiming that they are a democracy. Holding free and fair elections is only part of being a democracy. The other part is free speech and freedom of information. So […]

September 24, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

I'm endangered!!

From my (non-red-headed) brother: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22289183-2,00.html?from=public_rss REDHEADS are becoming rarer and could be extinct in 100 years, according to genetic scientists. The current National Geographic magazine reports that less than two per cent of the world’s population has natural red hair, created by a mutation in northern Europe thousands of years ago. Global intermingling, which broadens […]

September 24, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

Time's awesome archives

While Googling a quote from Aldus Huxley, I came across this article announcing a new painkiller called Soma. I noticed the date was 1959. It seems Time Mag has put their entire archive online dating back to 1929. How totally cool. Their search UI is horribly buggy, but I managed to dredge up this interesting […]

September 21, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

An ode to the end of Facebook

I rant, Tony rants, Alan ranted. With surprisingly similar space-time coordinates. Our love of Facebook is duly recanted. We’re no longer Zuckerberg’s subordinates.

July 30, 2007 | Randomness, Rants, Tech News, Technology | No comments

Yahoo takes 10 days to update an email address?

 I just updated my email address on Yahoo and got this: WTF?

July 26, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

Google Analytics Stats

Stats since reviving my dusty old blog last week. Still no SE traffic – in fact I’m still getting traffic for pages from my old blog that don’t exist anymore. What really surprises me is the avg time on site. But I guess that’s how long I spend on most blogs – I like to […]

July 22, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

The Web

This little guy quietly spun this masterpiece while I was snoozing on the couch below him last night – and he got me thinking about The Web and what the word really means these days. Perhaps I’ve been in the entrepreneurial game for too long now, but it’s beginning to mean: Design User interfaces SEO […]

July 22, 2007 | Randomness, Technology | No comments

I'm laundering money

I just put my wallet through the wash. AAAAAAAH!!

July 21, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

The one thing governments never fail to get right…

…is to get it so very wrong. Via Marc Andreesen’s blog: The European Union on Thursday authorized Germany to give $165 million for research on Internet search-engine technologies that could someday challenge U.S. search giant Google Inc. Some politician is costing the EU $165 Megs to prove to the world he’s hip with the search […]

July 20, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.