Digital visionary Tolga Katas and his long-time girlfriend, Christine Marie, were married in Las Vegas on 11-11-11. Geeks in attendance were abundant, including famed hacker and best-selling author, Kevin Mitnick; tech analyst Dan Sokol; Filter Foundry CTO Kevin Postal; Java king Kevin Deem; senior software architects Gary Kam and Alex Blazso; Technorazzi’s favorite swing-dancing hacker Trevor Blazso; and more.

While Tolga and I were celebrating our engagement, we walked around Las Vegas Boulevard talking about life and the future. Tolga took tons of photos of me and various shots around the Strip (that photoblog is here). But more importantly, he took the photo of the homeless man below. I haven’t been able to stop [...]

Tolga & I have laid another digital egg. A fun phonics game for kids 3-6! Kids get to drag the eggs into the pan with their fingers & form rhyming words. Super cute. It’s SO fun working with him on these things.  

The Las Vegas Twitter elite attended TWITTERATI at Blush Nightclub at Wynn Las Vegas. Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone hosted the event with Twitter VP of Product Jason Goldman. The top Twitter users in Las Vegas were honored and attendees were tweeting to displays in Blush showing the tweets in real time throughout the event.The founders, of course, were happy to spend time chatting with the Vegas Twitter elite who are helping Twitter get closer to it’s goal to reach 1 billion users

Laptops are glorious. They enable me to blog, work on web sites, and check my online banking to see how empty my account is – from any room in the house. I blog a lot in the sun room. It’s my favorite place to do computer work in the mornings. I prefer the light and more »

April 2, 2010 famed ex-hacker Adrian Lamo revealed his weakness on facebook.  It’s his mother. He writes, So, it’s my mom’s birthday. Help show her that the Interblags have a human face by giving me a quick note to pass on, ideally thanking her for not selling me to gypsies (AFAIK), and for standing off more »

Tolga and I had a party in our home on Las Vegas. We invited two political candidates to hear what they had to say. They were Mike Montandon who is running for the Governor of Nevada, and Gordon Martines, a maverick man with integrity and experience who is running for the Sheriff of Las Vegas.  more »

John Draper, the original phone phreaker and a member of the famous Homebrew Computer Club, turns 67 today.  John Draper, also known as Captain Crunch because he used the tone of a whistle that came in a box of Captain Crunch cereal to bypass long distance telephone charges, once taught others how to use that more »

This is a picture of John Draper and I from Defcon. The organizers had multiple parties and dances happening simultaneously at night, and Crunch and I went to something called the “Freak Show.” It was like a dance club with lots of, um, creative participation events going on. Somehow I didn’t expect the hacker community more »