Kevin Purdy

Once you get there, you’ll feel just as immortal as the Elves.
I really dig this idea (courtesy of BoingBoing) of using a trek taken by fictional questing hero-types to set a personal goal for yourself, be it walking, running or maybe even miles you want to travel on weekend “one-tank trips.”
Geeky? Yes. Slim figure, super [...]

How come the kid representing Linux has the unkempt hair?
To say the least, Microsoft’s varied efforts at stonewalling or segmenting the Linux market have gotten markedly different receptions in the U.S. and Europe.
Take, for example, this report in the Sept. 20 issue of The Economist, which summarizes the findings by a trial court for the [...]

Slate posted an insightful article Friday looking at the latest move by networks to retain the kind of big, multi-demographic audiences they once took for granted. The short version is that dramas with big, big casts — Heroes, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, almost every recent HBO series and, yes, even this blogger’s all-time favorite, The Wire, [...]

I’ve posted up some news-type clips and a little video work I’ve dabbled in over in the next two tabs, and I rounded out the About section with contact information.
To do: Make the sidebar a bit more interesting, give my friend and like-minded blogs some love in the blogroll, and, uh, post about something other [...]

This is the first post on my new, blog-driven, Wordpress-powered personal Web site.
Basically, I’m trading the pride of being able to display the Made with Notepad badge, like on my old site, for a slicker look and ability to update without searching through 300+ lines of HTML.
Articles, projects and even multimedia stuff coming soon. I [...]