Porsche's new four-door super-sports sedan

Super, dead-sexy, new four-door super-sports sedan by Porsche called the Panamera, via Autoblog…

Gallery: Porsche Panamera Tech Briefing and First Ride

Gorgeous Defender, originally uploaded by Chris Abraham.

This is one hell of a gorgeous Land Rover Defender 90 in my neighborhood.

Emanuel Rosen sent me a review copy of his new book, The Anatomy of Buzz Revisited — he took the time to personalize the inscription and send along a card — this is WOM done right — I would expect nothing less from the Maestro! How cool is that? I will report on the book as I read through it. Updates forthcoming.

Brett Petersel, Darren Harper, Chris Abraham at DC TechKaraoke

I am doing what I can to help DC become social media rockstar!  Here’s a photo of social media rockstar Brett Petersel, social media rockstar Darren Harper, and little ole me. If you have a chance, check out TechKaraoke!

Since February 27th, DomainTools has overcharged my account $213.

DomainTools Zombie Fraudulent Ghost Charges

As an Internet geek, I have always been a member of DomainTools for the mad ninja whois and name server tools they offer.  They even have registration tools that allow me to track the history of domain registration.  Well, since February 27, 2009, they have been grabbing money hand over fist from my account with line items such as “Additional 10 Units rebilled monthly (expires May 5th, 2008)” and “10 Units rebilled monthly (expired).”  Here’s the crazy image of the craziness going on.  Is this happening to anyone else?  Is DomainTools getting hacked, has it gone zombie, and are people getting their money back?

Follow up 20:04 2 March 2009: I am starting to see refunds coming in from the above charges.  I have this lovely email:

Hello Chris:

Thank you for your inquiry.  Our Dev Team is currently working to resolve the billing issue that has affected your account.  We will certainly refund every duplicate charge to your PayPal account immediately.

We will also upgrade your ticket to Billing Support so that we can follow up accordingly with you if necessary.  We apologize for the error and any inconvenience this may have caused.

Thank you again for using DomainTools.

Best regards,

Tim P
DomainTools Client Support

Sweet Steamroller Single Speed, originally uploaded by Chris Abraham.

]]> http://chrisabraham.com/2009/02/28/sweet-steamroller-single-speed/feed/ 0 http://chrisabraham.com/2009/01/04/my-new-randall-model-1/ http://chrisabraham.com/2009/01/04/my-new-randall-model-1/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:09:08 +0000 Chris Abraham http://chrisabraham.com/2009/01/04/my-new-randall-model-1/ 7″ Model 1 Randall Made Knife, originally uploaded by Chris Abraham. After four years, I finally received my bespoke, hand-made, Randall Model 1 “All-Purpose Fighting Knife.” Instead of tearing right into the box, I paused and filmed a nine-minute unboxing video and took some photos of the knife — knife porn.

7″ Model 1 Randall Made Knife, originally uploaded by Chris Abraham.

After four years, I finally received my bespoke, hand-made, Randall Model 1 “All-Purpose Fighting Knife.” Instead of tearing right into the box, I paused and filmed a nine-minute unboxing video and took some photos of the knife — knife porn.

Dancing on the Table at the Bird, originally uploaded by Chris Abraham.

So, Charlie, John, and I go to a local burger joint in Prenzlauer Berg and then hang around a while drinking some beers and then, all of a sudden, the pH balance of the table next to us changed and I caught the above photo on my Nokia N95. Spontaneous table dancing by an incidental table dancer.

The low light coupled with the bad lighting resulted in a muddy photo. Luckily, I know what I am doing in Photoshop and was able to recover this image. I actually love this photo the best out of all of them in the set. Just another night out in Berlin, Germany. Very odd but not remotely abnormal.

Nokia N97, originally uploaded by Robert Scoble.

Robert Scoble started a bit-storm when he got his hands on the Nokia N97 even before I have scored myself an N96. I love love love my Nokia N95 8GB and use it as my 5mp camera, my QIK video camera, and my official podcast-listening device. I wake up this morning and there are a million articles about the Nokia N97 all over the place: Robert Scoble, Gizmodo, Engadget, SlashGear, MobileCrunch, GSMArena, Atmaspheric Endeavors, UnwiredView, Mobile.ie, PhoneMag, Laptop Mag, Geeky Gadgets, Mobile Tech Addicts, GadgetHeat, The S60 Blog, Inside View, Scoble’s Flickr, Teche Blog, Mobile Fun, CNet UK, Phones Review, The Serious Games Blog, TechLime, SlashPhone