Ancient History ⁽¹⁰⁾

Ever since switching my primary development machine over to Ubuntu, I’ve developed a nasty habit of firing up Mahjongg every time I have to watch logs or wait for a task to run for any great length of time. Even for an old, jaded gamer,…

“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…

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…

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…

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…