It’s coming. Obama will win tomorrow and the world will be a more wonderful place for it. In some ways, I’m sad to be away in a different country while this happens in the U.S. (Don’t worry, I voted via absentee ballot!) The joy welling up in me is something I very much want to … Continue reading
Ever hear of Firefox 3? Yeah, so have I. Too bad NBC is still in the goddamn Neolithic. You have got to be kidding me. I was thinking I’d mosey over to their website, as much as I generally decry centralized media repositories, and see whether I couldn’t stream a bit of live coverage of … Continue reading
I meant to post this a while back, when the article was current, but never got around to it. Its from an Ars Technica writeup bashing Google’s Second Life wannabe: Apparently, a WordPress theme, Flickr photostream widget, and a Twitter Flash badge aren’t enough to show off one’s personality anymore; I felt that one. May … Continue reading
By far the hardest thing about being out of the country for so long is that I don’t have my critters romping around anymore. This can be a good thing, because it means I don’t get headbutted awake every morning to toss stupid toys around. It’s also a horrible thing, because it means I don’t … Continue reading
Trolling Slashdot the other day, I came across the usual thread teeming with Linux apologists decrying the evils of Microsoft and their tireless quest to stamp out the last traces of good in the software world. It was just like Penny Arcade tells us. However, I was this time fortunate enough to bear witness to … Continue reading
From time to time, I like to scope out my WordPress stats pages and see how this site is faring on the Intarwebz. Monitoring traffic is fine, and sometimes there are a few surprises when I realize who’s reading this blog and not commenting. But what keeps me coming back to this is the list … Continue reading
Last night I was cruising around the city on my moped, happy as could be, the wind chapping my lips and wresting loose the smell of pizza from my jacket, stoking and sating my hunger at the same time. I’m zipping down a two-way street, keeping an eye out for the block-long section ahead where … Continue reading
I am not a web designer. But I am someone who likes to complain. I should probably look into being a full-time copy editor, because I’m just so compulsively critical. This example, though, from PBS.org’s homepage yesterday, is something that pretty much everyone can complain about. Doesn’t that look like Castro’s brother won an Oscar? … Continue reading
As I was preparing this morning to head out on my newest leads for a job, I heard the rolling thunder sound that signals I have new e-mail. I check it, and it’s an e-mail from the professor on my university who oversees the research position I’ll hopefully be starting soon. I translate it loosely: … Continue reading