This photograph from Le Monde reminded me of the case of Samantha Marson. While I realize that this is besides the point, the September 11 hijackers did not even use bombs. More tellingly, they were not European college students.
Either way, it is nice to know that if I want to get arrested, I [...]
After watching the Patriots win the Super Bowl, I had some questions about the halftime show, especially in view of the apology by Jason Timberlake and MTV. Was the event staged, or a "mistake?"
Tuesday, February 3, 2004
I saw this Netcraft article about humorous solutions to SCO's DDoS problem a few days ago. At the time, I thought the third solution (with its idea of SCO "slashdotting Slashdot" and its nuclear solution to "the problem in Redmond."
Wednesday, February 4, 2004
This article from Chechenpress.info (which claims to be the "State News Agency" of Chechnya) sums up to me all that is wrong with reling on faith in legal matters.
Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Just installed my new wireless keyboard/mouse combo: the Logitech Cordless Navigator Duo. The fact that I can now sit so far away from my computer that I cannot see what I am typing tickles me pick. I hope that it is compatible with the version of Mandrake Linux that I have installed on [...]
Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Found a link to this Washington Post article on Wonkette. Weird registration policy (at least the New York Times allows "partners," like Google and Userland to provide registration-free hyperlinks).
The article itself is pretty interesting. It's a bit funny that in this day and age, it is considered acceptable for the Post to send [...]
Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Perhaps I am still bitter about that Super Bowl commercial, or my bias against people from North Carolina was particularly virulent today. Either way, I found it necessary to respond to this post on the "importance" of Apple.
Thursday, February 5, 2004
Instapundit attempts to support his allegations against the BBC by using this Slashdot article, about the BBC's fallacious implication that the MyDoom virus was written by a Linux advocate.
He'll have my head for forgetting his birthday. Join in the celebration.
Reading in the New York Times about an explosion in the Moscow subway, I headed over to my favorite Russian online newspaper to see if there was any news about it. Alas, the precious space was used for articles on contraceptives, Japanese moustaches, bestiality, and our favorite lesbians (with the exception of the [...]
I am not sure that this article's headline is exactly accurate, but it depends what you mean by a "suggestion," I guess.
The idea of Dean as vice-president is interesting. While it would ensure that the majority of the "Dean activists" continue to work on the presidential campaign, it might lose the South for the [...]
When I saw this post on Boing Boing, I thought, "I wish they had the ability to check the status of your laundry online here at Harvard. Curse you, Mac-Gray!" Then I followed the link, and was pleasantly surprised to find that Mac-Gray is indeed the company behind this venture.
However nice the screenshots [...]
I am going to avoid commenting on the content of this site (found on Boing Boing). I am also not going to comment on its shameless attempt to co-opt youth culture through corrupted slang like, "What's the Download" and "There's more to music than meets the ears."
I first read this story in the New York Times, but I am glad that I ran across this BBC News article, because it has pictures.
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Earlier today (technically yesterday, now), I experienced my second blue screen of death in Windows XP. While it was simple to dismiss the first one one of those random computer glitches we all experience from time to time, the fact that just before the second crash, I pressed one of my keyboard's media keys [...]
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
I had heard about the site earlier, but only joined yesterday. It is interesting, but not from a revolutionary sense. Still waiting for my invitation to Orkut, though…
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
According to this press release, someone at Microsoft made a major error:
Microsoft has learned of a mistake in the Bookshelf Symbol 7 font included in the Microsoft Office System client applications. Due to an unintentional oversight, we failed to identify, prior to the release, the presence of two swastikas within the font.
Friday, February 13, 2004
Prepare for multiple blog entries. During the past few days, I have been deluged (bad pun) with work, so I have been saving hyperlinks left and right. Expect at least two articles from Le Monde, a number of random blog entries, and maybe even a rant about the Crimson.
UPDATE: going to dinner now. [...]
Friday, February 13, 2004
Military medals are supposed to honor those who have been especially courageous. Most of their descriptions include reference to "valourous service benefiting our wondrous nation of X," or somesuch. This idea of national benefit is the end-all of medals; courage is the most important component.
Saturday, February 14, 2004
The good Commisar at the Politburo Diktat added me to the "Bloggers' Bestiary", described as "An Imaged Collection of Some of The Commissar's Favorite Blogs." I wonder if I can use this "Favorite of the Commissar" status to gain material goods, like cars, caviar, and women.
Saturday, February 14, 2004
When I first went to canvassing in New Hampshire for Clark, my email address made its way to the lists of various Clark-related groups. Not only did I receive emails from the national campaign (asking me to volunteer in Iowa and New Hampshire), but I only got mail from "New Hampshire for Clark" (talking [...]
Sunday, February 15, 2004
I do not expect everyone to have the same technological acumen that I myself possess. But when a reporter is attempting to review various tax software packages, and is unable to competently download, I begin to wonder about the journalistic integrity of your publication:
Saturday, February 21, 2004
Following the lead of other blogosphere luminaries, marteydodoo.com has been registered. This blog will be moving there, sometime after the DNS propagation.
Sunday, February 22, 2004
…on this website, that is. There were some minor hitches in the moving process (from editing mt-dbpass.cgi instead of mt-db-pass.cgi, causing MySQL authentication problems, to my power supply making strange noises that disappeared after I shutdown my computer and waited for an hour), but they have been overcome. Took the opportunity to update [...]
Monday, February 23, 2004
Pathetic Earthlings has a post analyzing the language of White House press releases. One must wonder whether there is some sort of hierarchy of sadness; "deeply saddened" being more important than "saddened," etc. For example, although the press release about the death of Dale Earnhardt calls him an "American legend," (right up there [...]
Monday, February 23, 2004
…building a virtual Earth for planning future conflicts and what not. Now, I am all for the military using technology in order to better achieve its goal of protecting the United States and its interests around the (real) world. But is a replication of the entire planet necessary? While I do not [...]
Monday, February 23, 2004
The Mediachest website looks interesting. There are two things stopping me from joining. The first (and most important) is that several people from Harvard would have to join for it to be of any use to me (since I am not going to loan out my stuff to random people in Cambridge). [...]
Monday, February 23, 2004
This New York Times op-ed about the differences between the treatment of the Vietnam National Guard service of Dan Quayle and George W. Bush got me thinking. The only possibility that I could come up with is that Clinton's experiences during the Vietnam years changed the political landscape by eliminating the war from litmus [...]
Monday, February 23, 2004
Over the past few days, I have been receiving a number of spam email messages at my FAS email account. Excepting the latest message, they all included links to some shady website hosted in China. The one sent less than an hour ago, however, included only a phone number: 1-212-658-9912.
Friday, February 27, 2004
This Register article talks about the Apple vs Apple case. I personally love this quote:
And the judge, Mr Justice Edward Mann, surprised the assembly by admitting he is an iPod user. He wondered if this disqualified him from judging the case. Lord Grabiner QC, representing Apple Comp., told him he was not. "I'm delighted [...]
Friday, February 27, 2004
As much as I hated how my previous entry was co-opted by conservatives, this email was so strange and infuriating that I had to post about it.
Friday, February 27, 2004
Got this from a Metafilter entry. A review of a Superman comic book where Lois Lane becomes black for 24 hours. Watch as the "twin volcanoes" of Superman's fists help create a message of racial coexistence.
Saturday, February 28, 2004
This potentially blasphemous entry from the Commissar was too funny not to link to. Ann Coulter pictures, Messiah-Dean (not Mujahid-Dean!), and gratituous Jackson Family references - what's not to love?
Saturday, February 28, 2004
From the Scobleizer comes a link to Plaxo, which makes a plugin for Outlook and Outlook Express that allows for automatic updating of contact information. Seems nice, but no extensions for Mozilla Mail or Thunderbird yet. Still, any company that has a blog (and it's a real blog, with Movable Type! No Trackback, [...]