I’ve fallen off the blog wagon. Job fairs have taken a lot of my free time lately. This blog (and the photoblog) occupy a weird space in my brain: they only get posts when I’m: Inspired Have a few free minutes Am at a computer Unfortunately, job fairs have eaten #2, while general business has killed […]
I had an ear infection back in December, around New Year’s. It hurt, but I didn’t ever see anyone about it (not many places are open on Dec. 31st). A few weeks later, I had some issues with pressure in that ear. Long story short, three doctors, five visits, one ear cleaning, one hearing test, two […]
Again, inspired by The Economist. John McCain (R‑Arizona) is an often-named front-runner for the Republican Party in 2008. He is called out as a “maverick” by most hardline Republicans, but in what I can only call an amusing twist of reality, he is closer to the original party line than anyone has been in the […]
In his belief that America needed to respond resolutely to the dangers of terrorism, tyranny and proliferation, Mr Bush was mainly right. His chief failures stem from incompetent execution. From The Economist. The Economist took a look back at the Bush and Blair relationship and impact on the world over the past six years, and […]
Jade cut open my wrist last Thursday. I realized that the only people who asked me what happened are those who know me really well. The acquaintances just sit and stare, not sure if they should ask: “Do I know him well enough? What if he really is that depressed? What do I say?” My good […]
From Jeff Harrell at The Shape of Days, on secret prisons. …it comes down to trust. Do we trust that there are enough checks and balances? Do we trust that there’s enough oversight? Do we trust, fundamentally, that these excesses we justify in the name of the public good will never be turned against us? That’s […]
Isn’t it about time we quit measuring professional success in one dimension, vertically, and start considering how much your actual work matches your desired work? From Creating Passionate Users comes the question, “Why is our success metric our height on the corporate ladder? Shouldn’t we be measuring how closely what we want to do matches […]
Coming from Bruce Schneier and TRAC: … timely data show that five years later, in the latest available period, the total number of these prosecutions has returned to roughly what they were just before the attacks. How is it that, during the War on Terrorism, our government is doing such a piss-poor job of catching […]
I woke up this morning to the sound of rain. I didn’t quite expect things to be that damp when I woke up. But a rainy Monday? Can the week get any worse? Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last week were miserably wet, as remnants from Tropical Storm Ernesto swept through the area. Saturday, thank god, the […]
My email provider, Fastmail, had a catastrophic server failure on Thursday morning (Wednesday night?) The hard drives on server3 became corrupted as a result of a filesystem bug. They were able to quickly remount most partitions, but the largest (2 Terabytes) took much longer to check. It is currently still being verified. Many users, including […]
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