Welcome Nate!
On May 15th 2018 Sara and I welcomed Nathan Arthur Gulotta into the world!
On May 15th 2018 Sara and I welcomed Nathan Arthur Gulotta into the world!
I stumbled upon this discussion today where someone brings up the difference between people raised in an "Ask Culture" or a "Guess Culture". I like this thought it explains behavior that cause most roommate fights. I also think that regardless of if …
I hate the feeling of being sold.
I've been getting a lot of emails and letters in the mail from my Alumni Association asking for me to update my info. Let me correct that.
I've been getting a lot of emails and letters from a book company that my Al…
I just read a short comic that caught my eye. It's a story about a guy around my age and how he manages to change his situation. Apparently it's a bit old and had dissipated for a long while. He's got a license on his site that allows me to make a ba…
Torrent Freak writes about a counter measure:
Yesterday we reported that a provision in the revamped French “3 strikes” bill will allow for the punishment of ISP account holders for the copyright infringing actions of others. Now a group of hackers …
I felt this was an appropriate rebuttal to my last post. I also love Pictures for Sad Children
(if that link ever breaks)
I took an arm off my chair today so I could use my mouse and keep my arm at a decent level. The left one is for appearences and so I have something to lean on. For a cheap $150 staples chair (*grumble*) the arm rests not lowering enough is my only ma…
Found these from like 3 moves ago. Good times.
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This is a talk from "America's Greenest CEO". He's transformed his petroleum intensive carpet tile company's business practices into a sustainable business practices. That's a fancy way to say he's shifted from taking from the earth to make carpet (w…
I'm cleaning up some old draft posts that I never wrote out. This one is even more relevant today then when I planned to write it.
https://www124.americanexpress.com/cards/loyalty.do?page=expresspay
Instead of writing up a nice post about the party and showing off my brothers awesome video he cut for the occasion I instead was playing with jQuery. Specificly testing out Ariel Flesler's ScrollTo plugin which I think is pretty cool.
I present to y…
Two years ago I got a crazy idea. For my twenty third birthday instead of the usual drinking and debauchery we'd do something different. Most of my friends thought I was crazy and it was a stupid idea, but since I was footing the bill I was able to c…
Occasionally people come to me and ask about websites.
"Francis, I need help on making website."
"Well.. what are you up to? "
"I have an idea of something I'd like to sell online."
Usually it's cookies, sometimes it's t-shirts, a lot of times it i…
GEM: The Global Environment Monitoring unit is a European commission that makes up on of six units in IES: The Institute for Environment and Sustainability. The IES is a group of scientists (about 65 according to their about page) that are devoted to making sure development in Europe and the world is done is such a way that it doesn't cause problems. Today I stumbled upon a project they did called, "Travel time to major cities: A global map of Accessibility" and boy isn't it beautiful? Click on it for a much larger version, and click though to the project for information about what it means and what it doesn't.
I've been using this avatar for years. Since early 2001 at the very least.
That's as original as I can find it, its a 64x64 px gif that best as I remember came from a PHP-Nuke forum pack. It's been my buddy icon, my profile pic, my tag. It's probabl…