While I appreciate the New York Times op-ed that former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff John Shalikashvili wrote, suggesting that preventing openly gay people from serving in the military is no longer needed, I am not impressed by his reservations:
But if America is ready for a military policy of nondiscrimination based on sexual [...]
Walking home from work, I was standing at the intersection waiting for the light to change when the car swerved out of its lane and faced directly toward me, only a few feet away. For a second, I was sure that it was The Car, the one that would jump onto the sidewalk and mow [...]
I am not sure why the webmaster for the Cambridge music venue T. T. the Bear's Place feels that they are competent to tell me what Internet browser I should be using when they cannot spell, have not realized that using Internet Explorer 5.0 is akin to directly sending all of your banking information to [...]
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Today is my birthday. To celebrate, I bought myself a slew of presents, including the Sony Ericsson W810i you can see in the picture at the right. Since it has a decent camera, expect more photos. I spent the entire day at home, assembling flat-packed furniture from IKEA armed with only a Leatherman Wave and [...]
I have not been sleeping well lately. I suspect that the reason is related to my new bed (could it be too comfortable?), although I am not entirely sure. One disturbing side-effect is the shadows I have been seeing lately.
They have occasionally happened before, although never with this frequency (once every couple of hours). Normally, [...]
Over at Gadfly, Peter Mulcahy complains about Randall Stross' recent article in the New York Times, which rightly castigates Apple for the limitations of the FairPlay DRM with which it encodes audio and video purchased from the iTunes Store. While I think commenter Markus Kolic is right in noting that Stross seems to be misreading [...]
I am sympathetic to the fact that some people have trouble pronouncing my name; it is not particularly easy. While I am always surprised when people get it right on the first try, mispronunciation of my name is not a cardinal sin.
Unless you are contacting me electronically. If you are sending an message to an [...]
Thursday, January 25, 2007
On the Notebooks page of the website of Taiwanese electronics company ASUS, I found several items under the heading "ASUS Exclusive Innovations for Mobile Computing." While several of the items (i.e. power management) are definitely not exclusive to ASUS, the last two items (which you can see to your right) are just not innovative.