The New York Times sits down with Thom Yorke, lead singer of the popular British alternative band Radiohead. While a large part of the article focuses on Yorke's solo album, The Eraser, a significant portion of it deals with Yorke talking about Radiohead's next album. Since Radiohead is no longer signed to Capitol Records, Yorke [...]
On July 1, I decided that Windows was just not working for me. Yes, having a plethora of possible applications to install appealed to me, but I feel that no operating system has a monopoly of having things "just work." Here are just of a few of the annoyances I experienced while using Windows:
Back when I was a senior in high school, I was naïve in many ways, including my determination of what was good music. Around that time, I recognized that my musical taste was less developed than those of many of my friends. This was not because I liked bad music, but because I had simply [...]
When I learned about Microsoft's plans to make a digital music player, I was generally underwhelmed. Several other companies including Toshiba, Sony, and Creative have attempted to challenge the iPod's dominance of the digital audio market with little success. But according to Engadget, Microsoft might have an incentive that could tip the scales in their [...]
A 750 word review of Thomas Kinsella's The Tain, a compilation from the Táin Bó Cúailnge and other tales from the Ulster Cycle.
While the title of this post may be hyperbolic, an article in the New York Times' fashion section about a recent show in Paris annoyed me significantly. The couture outfit shown in the picture to the right is unlikely to be worn by anyone after the model discards it. It will not be mass-produced nor [...]
Via BoingBoing comes all of Title 17 of the United States Code, which encapsulates all of American copyright law, in short quartains with ABAB rhyming scheme. On 17 USC 107 (fair use):
Despite all of these rights
All people can reproduce
To report, criticise, or teach
Because that is fair use
Almost as interesting as the verse is the copyright [...]
A year ago, I was reading Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha:
And then, for an hour, he became aware of the strange life he was leading, of him doing lots of things which were only a game, of, though being happy and feeling joy at times, real life still passing him by and not touching him.
For a relatively long time (more than a year), this blog used a modified version of the Kubrick theme that ships with WordPress. Since I had invested a substantial amount hacking on the fixed-width theme to make it fluid[1], I was hesitant to switch, especially since the majority of the themes I saw were going [...]
The environment of Harvard Summer School is quite different from the regular school year. Instead of the 18-21 year olds that made up the majority of undergraduate students in Harvard College, I am experiencing "people of all ages, from around the United States and more than 90 countries, live and learn together as they satisfy [...]
Since I am not in school anymore (and therefore no longer have homework), I feel that I should be keeping productive by doing more programming. Unfortunately, my move to Linux presents a bit of a conundrum - in order to ensure that the largest possible audience can run my creations on their computers, it is [...]
A long post on WPLY, the Philadelphia radio station known as Y100, that was located at 100.3 Mhz on FM radio and its influence on me.
Despite the fact that I only started using Ubuntu 6.06 ("Dapper Drake") less than a month ago, I have quickly become bored with it. While the six month release schedule ensures that development happens quickly, it is necessary to upgrade to the latest development version in order to receive the newest packages. Since I like [...]