An Arduino Primer (And How To Tweet The Temperature Using The Wifi Shield)
When I was little, my dad would take me to Radio Shack. We’d buy some wires, batteries, lights, annoying little piezo buzzers and wire everything together at home. He would mount everything on a piece of plywood and we’d play
An Open Letter To DC Blues Players…
Are you or your band’s guitar player: Sick? Out of town? Too stoned to drive? Car broke down/repossessed? Just straight up don’t feel like playing tonight? If you answered “yes” to any of these, then this may be the most
How To Get More Clients and Customers To Your Website (Without Spending A Million Bucks)
On Saturday I taught a class at the MLK Library Digital Commons on how to how to promote your web-based business. I had targeted the class to people who had already launched a site and were looking for ways to
The 7 Crack Commandments Of Learning Arabic
By Will Ward Cairo, Egypt — 11pm — About 9 years ago “3ayz aru7 el-mat3m” I repeated to the cab driver, getting more frustrated as he cruised around the city. I was a few weeks into my summer course in Arabic
The Mandolin Is A Weird Little Instrument (And How To Learn It Fast If You’re A Guitar Player)
Let me tell you the story of how I got into playing mandolin as a long-time guitar player. I stumbled into the mandolin when I was doing Flashband here in DC. (Flashband is a local project that gets musicians to
Market Sophistication 101
I first learned about this concept of “market sophistication” from this video by Vishen Lakhiani of Mind Valley. The concept is super interesting so I watched it twice, once through and then a second time to take notes. Later, when