David Nunez

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ugh! Enough Already.

Ok, ok... I give... No more orange.  No more green... What am I? an Oompa-Loompa? I hate this blog design.  What the heck was I thinking? It's making me disgusted to even write here. Thus: Redesign pending.

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Am I Becoming a Spammer?

I think I'm walking a fine line between the good and evil sides of mass email. The last couple of weeks, in particular, I sent out quite a few mass emails to contacts, some more "casual" than others. These were of the "HEY! I'

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How Much energy does the Internet use?

Chris posed a very interesting rhetorical question today. How much energy does the Internet consume? Broadly, this means electric, mental, organizational, etc. Specifically, considering all the networked devices and the electrons going through billions of connections, how many Watts do we dissapte in the ether? Can you count computers, translate

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SxSW EFF-A Party

Well. I think we had a stunning success at the EFF-A/EFF/Creative Commons / Andrews Kurth / Polycot / Midas Networks / Joito Party last night. Over 300 people came through the doors of El Sol y La Luna... hipsters, music-lovers, geeks, bloggers, lawyers, and movers and shakers of all shapes and sizes

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Panel Debrief

I'm not really happy with my performance on the edutainment panel.  I was definitely ill-prepared, my slides blew up on me, and I wasn't sure I made cogent points...  after the stress of getting ready for the eff-a tradeshow booth, I think that made me come

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Two Words.

Holy cow.

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Tracey

She dropped her satchel on the floor, the multitude of unconverged, expensive and fragile contents scratching and curmudgeoning like war-beaten cats in an asinine lover's quarrel. Yet with the care of an ostrich turning its eggs, she used the tips of her fingers to coax her surplus/refurbished/

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I'm Speaking at SxSW Interactive

Some exciting news (I can't believe I didn't blog this yet.) I'm speaking at SxSWi in the "Edutainment" panel on March 14. "Are students more apt to pay attention when gaming technology is introduced into the classroom? Does paying attening to

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Case of the Blahs

I have a serious case of the unfuzzies and blah-blahs. Maybe it’s the weather.

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Recycled Content

Here's a blast from the past. Still applies. Intreviews in Geekland

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The Purgatory File

Here's a fun little organizational tip that I've implemented last year that's been really useful. This is particularly good if, like me, you are a packrat and can't stand to throw things away. You're going to need 2 bins or

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Blind Date

There was a strange incense burning, smelling of lemon dishwashing soap mixed with marijuana. She surveyed the room's statues of many-armed creatures; these, she assumed were part of an exotic middle eastern religion; she had no idea that India was a country in South Asia - you see,