Hi. I'm Nick Olejniczak and this is where I write about technology, the web and other bits of general geekery. I'm a web developer who loves Ruby on Rails, web standards and personal publishing. Interested in working together? Get in touch.
Saturday on the (Rebooted) Final Frontier · How Star Trek shows us the right way to reboot a franchise.
Evernote Stats · An excellent breakdown of Evernote’s stats showing the relationship between downloads, registered users, and active users. Way to go Evernote for being so transparent, this is great data.
Is Real-time the Future of the Web? · Yes. Or yes, some of the time. We can do real-time and asynchronous content on the web, I don’t see any reason to pick.
Dracula in real time · Bram Stoker’s book starts on May 3rd, read along in real time.
Relationship Symmetry in Social Networks · Why Facebook will go Fully Asymmetric
The beautiful columns of light in the sky are caused by the way ice crystals reflect and refract lights coming up from the ground. There was no wind at all tonight, so the columns lasted a really long time. See it on black. Check out the hard-science explanation if you like, or you can check out a more dramatic version that they’ve been experiencing in Latvia lately.
Guitar Hero as a text-adventure · Playable online. It is every bit as good as you’d think.
It’s the inauguration of our 44th president. Everyone is wearing their formal attire. You are wearing your Packers hat.

Anyone know who this guy is? I see no other professional sports teams represented in the VIP section. There’s a fully-zoomable Gigapan interface available for the whole scene if you’d like to investigate further.