Category Archives: meta

yet another slip

Why is it hard trying to keep a habit of writing a bit every day. Seriously, you think this would be a bit easier… Lots of people do it now.
I must confess, its been a lot harder to keep motivated to get things done (GTD) in the hobby sense when I get home from [...]

one of those posts

This will be one of those posts that apologizes for the lack of posts, saying the author has been really busy but will try to be better. So in effect, its a non-post post.
Brilliant.
In any case, we’re moving to a new apartment in Palo Alto next weekend and will finally take ownership [...]

data panopticon

Personally, I’m a pack rat — and probably more so in the digital sense.  I still have some of the papers that I wrote back in elementary school stored on some CD.  I definitely won’t ever (or want to ever) read them again, but I’m just the sort of person who hangs on to those [...]

knee-jerk reactions always encroach on free speech

This post was originally going to be in reference to this revelation that a student had been kicked out of school for creating a Counter Strike map closely resembling his school.  This was all in the wake of the tragedy at Virginia Tech, when self-possessed individuals were trying to (yet again) blame video games.  Thankfully [...]

proprietary markup

This past week has seen an explosion of new… um… let call it web 3.0 toolkits for lack of a better term. AJAX replacements basically. In addition to Adobe and Microsoft’s early contenders (Apollo and Silverlight respectively), Sun announced JavaFX as a third contender. Sun’s announcement comes on the heels of their [...]

busy as hell

I have no idea what it is about this week, but both Ann and I are swamped, which has disrupted my normal schedule (also the time decompression time in the evenings has been devoted to watch NBA playoffs).  In any case, I’ll try to get a few posts out soon, including part two of Riveria [...]

signs of the apocalypse

This story has been all over the news lately — Bees are disappearing for no explainable reason. Just take a moment and realize that a large percentage of our food is dependent on a small insect who’s function we can’t artificially replicate. This is just one of the handful of things that [...]