This blog is largely an excuse for me to stretch long-unused writing muscles and to explore ideas I find interesting. There's likely a lot of technology and internet related content, and I'm sure there will be food-related musings as well.
“Made in USA” is a fascinating phrase. My reaction to seeing it on a product is rather complicated, and can set off little bursts of patriotism, consumerism, elation, disappointment, and confusion. Patriotism sets in first. A little voice in the back of my head that…
Continue reading...I live on the web. I work on it, I play on it, I socialize on it. I am, therefore, subject to great temptation to misuse the web, particularly during work. Random browsing and long chains of link-following are very detrimental to productivity, and controlling…
Continue reading...Today an impromptu celebration has swept the country, as a ten year hunt for the apparent mastermind of 9/11 has come to a close. As I write this, my facebook feed is continuously refilling with a variety of congratulatory messages, and the news media is…
Continue reading...For those of you who are not familiar with Mozilla Prism, it's a tool that allows you to sandbox web applications away from the rest of your day-to-day browsing. For security freaks (which we should all be to at least some degree), this is an…
Continue reading...If anyone hasn't heard, there's a bit of a kerfuffle brewing about Microsoft's decision to continue to use Word as the default editor and html renderer for Outlook 2010. Web developers reading this will probably cringe, as Outlook is the primary thorn in any email…
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