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Monthly Archives: August 2007
red moon
Posted by on August 29, 2007
Last night I got up at 3:30 am for a little while to watch the lunar eclipse as it unfolded. It was really something! From what I’ve read people all over the US did that too. I didn’t see anyone around the neighborhood, but I’m sure that in this geek-heavy area there were more than [...]
on neuromancer
Posted by on August 27, 2007
Ok, next up in my list of belated blog posts is Neuromancer, more specifically my thoughts about the book. Russ recently read the book and was criticizing the ending as a “sort of afterthought”. Here’s my take on it: it’s not an afterthought but rather a very concrete expression of an idea that we’ve come [...]
8 random things
Posted by on August 27, 2007
So, apparently one can’t procrastinate in peace and is constantly (if ever so gently) goaded into posting. First up in this distributed conversation system that we call the blogsphere is a response to Mike and his tagging me for 8 random things. Unlike Russ, I can’t come up with an entertaining misdirection like his so [...]
jquery guide
Posted by on August 14, 2007
Simon Willison: jQuery for JavaScript programmers. Great post!
in the shadow of the moon
Posted by on August 8, 2007
Just watching the trailer of In the Shadow of the Moon is enough to give me goosebumps. This one will be a must-see.
the three-monitor setup
Posted by on August 8, 2007
So today I got new monitors, and I’m experimenting with a new setup, above (note: the picture is terrible, I’ll update it tomorrow). The two on the left are 30″ monitors–note the size of the keyboard in comparison, it’s one of those huge MS natural keyboards–, the one on the left in portrait mode is [...]
bots gone wild
Posted by on August 8, 2007
from the dept-of-high-irony: Google Mistakes Own Blog for Spam, Deletes it.
spook country
Posted by on August 6, 2007
At the end of a process that William Gibson started in July 2005 there’s Spook Country, the latest from the master, which will be out tomorrow. It’s interesting to me that everywhere, including most recently this News.com article about the book, Gibson is mentioned as “[having] predicted many of the changes technology has brought about”. [...]
C-monster
Posted by on August 5, 2007
Sunday entertainment: Let’s watch a Muppet eat a computer! Hilarious.
