This is Jay Jacobson's home page. Here you will find various stuff about me and things I find interesting.
You can contact me via email at jay (at) kinetic (dot) org.



About Me and My Work

• Jay's Bio (PDF)
• Jay's Resume (PDF)

Current Projects and Affiliations

• Overci - It all starts here...
• Scanist - Free Network Security Scans
• SneakWorks - (Coming Soon) Ssshhh... Is the suspense killing you?!?
• CTAN - Central Texas Angel Network

Previous Projects

• Edgeos (now Perimeter eSecurity) - Vulnerability Assessment and Information Security (Founder, CEO)
• Opnix - Internet Routing Intelligence Technologies (Founder, CEO, CTO)
• Internet Traffic Report - The Internet Traffic Report (CEO, CTO)
• MirrorDot - Solving the SlashDot Effect (Founder)
• Wired Global Communications (now C2I2) - ISP and Network Engineering Consulting Firm (Founder, CEO)
• GoodNet (now WinStar) - ISP and National Internet Backbone Carrier (Director, ISP Engineering)
• GeekJobs - Employment tips, tricks, ideas, and leads for geeks (Founder)
• Technology Officers' Association - (Founder, Chairman)
• XUsers - The OS X Users Group (Founder, Chairman)
• Arizona State University - (Board of Directors, New Economy Council)
• Maricopa County Colleges - (Adjunct Professor)
• Tech Oasis Alliance - (Chairman, Telecommunications Council)
• DeVry University - (Technology Advisor and Strategic Advisory Board Member)
• CD^3 - The First Portable MP3 Player (my college senior project)

Select Things I Wrote

• Start-Up Fears - Old blog post from March 22, 2006
• Make It Happen! - Old blog post from March 22, 2006
• Nuggets of Entrepreneurial Knowledge - Old blog post from March 24, 2006
• Ideas are Worthless... Kind Of... - Old blog post from March 27, 2006
• The Value of the Visionary - Old blog post from March 28, 2006
• Is There a Market for Vision? - Old blog post from March 30, 2006
• First-Mover Disadvantage - Old blog post from April 11, 2006
• Bay Adventure - Writings about my move from the desert to San Francisco.
• Goodbye Arizona - An open letter recounting my time and professional experiences in Arizona.
• Inter-Domain Dynamic Route Selection for Diversified IPv4 Networks - A whitepaper I wrote about Opnix' technology versus BGP4.    (Patent Application)
• The Myths Hackers Love - An article for BizAZ magazine about common information security myths.
• What is Information Security - An article I wrote for BizAZ Magazine.
• MIPS Sucker - A paper I wrote in college about global distributed computing and massive parallel processing.

Various Stuff

• Sudo Sandwich - Is this how a geek wears the pants in a relationship?
• The Tenth Dimension - An interesting explanation of multidimensional theories including time, space, and string theory.
• Screaming Green Beans - Some times I get the biggest laugh out of silly things (a HUGE billboard in Oakland).
• Blue Balls - Finally an interesting and fun use of animated GIFs!
• Another Optical Illusion - Another very cool optical illusion with dots moving around a circle.
• Fortune Cookie Philosophy - I got this in a fortune cookie. I am not sure what it means, but I think it holds the answers to the universe.
• Alcohol Comedy by Jim Brewer - Alcohol at a party. Damn this is funny.
• Fish Heads by Barnes and Barnes - It was really tough to dig this one up, but it is a classic.
• Optical Illusion - Very cool optical illusion.
• LED Porn - Some folks have too much free time. :) I have used a lot of electronics parts in my time, but I never saw any like this...
• Ron White Comedy Bit - This is an MP3 of comedian Ron White doing a bit called Tater Salad. Seriously funny stuff.
• Teramac - The Junkyard Powerhouse
• BogoMips - The Quintessential Linux Benchmark
• Fry, OD and Drug - A "Fry's Food and Drug" grocery store sign that coincidentally had some interesting letters burn-out.
• Stupid Sprint spam opt-out web page asking you to opt-in at the same time. Some companies just do not "get it."
• Quote from Tara Phillips: "Some people are like Slinkies. Their only purpose is to put a bright smile on your face when you push them down the stairs."
• Blood Moon - I took this (poor quality) picture on August 28, 2007. During a lunar eclipse, the moon turned dark blood-red for over an hour. Amazing!
• Hot Water Heater - Um, remind me again, what is the purpose of heating water that is already hot?
• What?!? Nodoby ever told me there are cookies available!
• Do you believe in fate?
• Apparently now God accepts credit cards. Something just does not seem right about that.
• A great reference chart to hang in your time machine. This is going to come in handy!