My work computer decided to freeze up and eat itself last night, and this morning it wouldn’t boot. I pawed ineffectually at it for a while, then broke down and called IT. I haven’t had to do that in a while, so it took me some time to track down their contact info. It turned [...]
The furor over the iPhone’s $200 price drop continues. Now, there are all kinds of reasons to be mad about this if you’ve already bought one. I imagine I’d be pissed. But Gruber makes a good case for why you can’t really consider this unfair, and Lord Jobs did the right thing by offering a [...]
Everyone at work took a Myers-Briggs personality test last month. The idea was that the tests would help us understand each other, so that we’d all get along better and group-hug more. Because there’s a definite lack of group hugging at my office. Also individual hugging. In fact, hugging is pretty much out, by order [...]
I’ve been thinking about writing a memoir consisting of nothing but made up facts about my life. It’s a new subgenre I’m calling LIEterature, in which events are created to substantiate whatever points I’m trying to make about myself. It’s very similar to straight-up fiction — which is really just a bunch of lies dressed [...]
Big news in the Web 2.0 world today. Google announced a new framework called Google Gears, which allows your web applications to save and retrieve stuff even when you’re not online. This online-only limitation has been a huge Achilles heel for the web app industry so far, and one of the major reasons that Google [...]
I had a nightmare last night. I was locked in a room, writing a story. I was writing it on a PC, using Microsoft Word. There were no Macs in the room, and there were no other editors on the computer — not even Notepad. I had to use a PC, and I had to [...]
The following predictions have a guaranteed accuracy rating of 92.5%, on the Revelations/Nostradamus scale. Any deviation from actual events is not the responsibility of this blog. Professional doomsayers finally become discouraged with the world’s steadfast refusal to end, and switch to a new Tivo-inspired slogan: “The Pause of the World is Nigh!” According to these [...]
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