Monthly Archives: September 2004

Paul Graham of Hackers and Painters on the lessons from the internet bubble and what it means to be a nerd. There is a reason why Silicon valley happened in the Bay Area and not in Liars Angeles. If you’re … Continue reading →

Most people I talk to that are voting for Bush cite his great personal character. Frankly, the issues aren’t as important. In this time of crisis we need to choose a leader who has the moral makeup and steadfast resolve … Continue reading →

Say it! “Let’s say you tried to have an election and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country. But in some places you couldn’t because the violence was too great,” Rumsfeld told a Senate Armed Services … Continue reading →

I’ve written before about ways I think that some video games can be evil. One game I can’t seem to find much fault in is Dance Dance Revolution. We have the PS2 version and a couple of mats. Everyone in … Continue reading →

Me: so whats actually going on is “hidden” inside these functor/delegates ? They: Its not that its “hidden,” but its abstracted to a level that is hard to trace. Me: that is the same thing. Joel says this alot better … Continue reading →

Hmmm. “While seemingly counterintuitive, researchers have found that employees with positive moods may sometimes be less creative at the workplace than those in negative moods.”

Perhaps you are stuggling with the details of how to be a good Muslim living in the West. Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Husayni Sistani has a website where he answers your questions. Sistani is in the news alot since he … Continue reading →

SourceSafe At HeadSpin and Cyan we used SourceSafe. It basically worked and you got to engage in the fun of running analyze every so often so you could feel important. There’s some scary warnings about not letting your repository get … Continue reading →

The Barnett brief is available on C-SPAN’s site as streaming video now. Its about 3hrs long. The video quality is crappy. And I still highly recommend it. If you want to think about what’s really going on with global military … Continue reading →

I don’t get the electric bicycle thing. None of them seem to have better performance specs (speed, range or recharge time) than me riding a non electric bike, and I am not even in that good shape. I guess they … Continue reading →