Category Archives: Interwebz
Let’s Talk (More) About Piracy
Photo courtesy of Andrew Dallos Over the past few weeks / months I have been closely following all of the happenings in the realm of internet censorship and copyright protection (SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, etc). I am heavily emotionally invested in the topic, and as such I didn’t want to write this piece until I felt I had considered both sides … Continue reading
The Guts of a Dynamic Web Site – Part 2
Hello ladies and gents! Its time for the second installment of “The Guts of a Dynamic Web Site.” For those of you that haven’t read the first and would like to, you can check out the first post on clients and servers and their role in the world wide web here. So now that we’ve gotten the basic idea of … Continue reading
SOPA is More Dangerous than You May Think
The other day I had a long discussion with a friend of mine about SOPA (also known as the Stop Online Piracy Act and/or the worst thing to ever happen to the free internet) and the severity of what would happen if it passed. While we both agreed that SOPA is grade A bad news, we had distinctly different views … Continue reading
The Guts of a Dynamic Web Site – Part 1
Hello there! I was reading some articles earlier today (one of which was really good: 91 Ways to Become the Coolest Developer) and it got me thinking about some of the trials and tribulations that I have dealt with in the ~2 years I’ve been doing web development. I remember when I was first getting started that I felt overwhelmed … Continue reading
Why Humanity Needs the Internet
So before I get in to any of the details of what I have to say, I’d like to point you to this video: RSA Animate – The Empathic Civilization The video is from a series of videos from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts that has a speaker narrating while someone draws out the ideas being discussed … Continue reading
My name is Christopher Grayson and I am an avid computing enthusiast. I've been playing video games and messing around with computers for as long as I can remember. I am a software engineer, research scientist, and graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology.