Category: Miscellaneous

The other shoe has dropped for my former place of employment. Most of my friends already got out alive, fortunately, but I’m feeling for those who haven’t.

We interrupt this blog with a brief commercial announcement (of sorts). Know anyone looking for a great PDA? I’m finally releasing my baby to the great unknown. This great color Handspring Visor Prism comes...

I created a little table of ASCII codes that should display Hawaiian diacritical markings (the ‘okina and the kahakō) on a web page for my friend Andy, but I figured I might as well...

Newsweek puts $87 billion in perspective. The New York Times devotes dozens of delicious column inches to a great travel piece on sleepy Hilo. Reading it made my heart ache.

Since he’s just put in for an extra $87 billion to spend on his mess in Iraq (a bit of it set to go toward stabilizing his last mess in Afghanistan — remember Afghanistan?), it’s...

On the eve of the end of an incredible era of scientific accomplishment and discovery, The New Yorker published a wonderful tribute to the little satellite that could. The story of what it took...

I recently got to meet up with Mitchell “She’s a Babe!” Dwyer and Ian Murphy, and movie talk dominated. I got the chance, therefore, to profess my love for “Fargo.” Mitchell has it high...

Hmm. Good news, bad news. And the outlook isn’t entirely rosy for folks with a million dollars burning a hole in their pocket, either.

Some good news for a change. Oh, how I’ve missed that motley crew. I most certainly longed for them in recent months, when world affairs were just begging for a decent flogging. Here’s hoping...

Online petitions are a dime a dozen, but if you’ve a moment, I’d urge you to sign this one, backing an impressive come-from-behind grassroots effort to kill the FCC’s attempts to allow greater media...

A positively gripping entry has popped up over at Dr. Scott’s journal. What can I say? I’ll just send some warm fuzzy thoughts his way.

After a bit of googling around (er, I mean, Googling™ around), I was heartened to see that people still use PGP, including the hep and cool web tribe of bloggers. I found public keys...

I remember sending these guys $10 back in 1994, just as I was getting onto the web. Back then, the hot topic was the Clipper Chip — I wrote a paper about it for a...

You never know what’ll stick, what’ll become your legacy. Perhaps we’ve already heard Dubya’s tagline: “Bring them on.” My humble proposal?

Update from Seoul. The good news? Most of my old coworkers still have jobs, at least for a while. The bad news? One of them doesn’t. Must press for the inside scoop.

Back in April I mentioned offhand that I was playing with Ryze, a barebones but fairly established site for business networking. I realized pretty quickly how late I was to the party. Heck, academics...

“Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.” Can I get an ‘Amen’? (And: They’re teaching this crap in schools?)

From the Things You Didn’t Need to Know But the Fox Network Will Show You Department comes this gem from Eric Schotz, producer of the upcoming special, “101 Things Removed from the Human Body”:...

Just got a note from my webhost, informing me I’m again nearing my 1GB storage limit (independent of my bandwidth use, which is always obnoxiously high). So, time for some spring cleaning. A painful...

My good friend Nate, now in Portland, follows the Tour de France more closely than anyone else I know. I look for the headlines when they’re posted, but admit to not really understanding the...