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A touch of the Tour

July 27th, 2007 · No Comments

In past years, I’ve watched several days of the Tour de France in the early morning, or catching the repeat on OLN (now Versus) in the evenings. Some of my fonder moments a few years ago were getting up early with the boy and teaching him who Lance Armstrong was, as we ate breakfast in [...]

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Tags: Bicycling · Everything · Television

Explaining OpenDNS for television

February 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

On Tuesday afternoon, KPIX, the local San Francisco/Bay Area CBS affiliate ran a ConsumerWatch segment called “Faster Internet For Free?” They didn’t need the question mark, because this was about OpenDNS. (Yes, I’m biased.) It was a good description of DNS, which isn’t easy for a non-technical audience. Kudos to Allison for convincing the CBS [...]

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Tags: DNS · Everything · OpenDNS · San Francisco · Television

Representing PhishTank on local television

October 17th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Last week, the local CBS affiliate followed up on Allison’s suggestion that they cover PhishTank as part of their Consumer Watch program. David was out of town. So, while Mike did the bulk of the coding, Aaron brought the design together to make PhishTank easy on the eyes and mouse clicks, Allison reached out [...]

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Tags: Everything · PhishTank · Television