Wow. I actually like Internet Explorer 9. It’s still in beta, but it feels finished. Mind you, I don’t think I’ll give up Google’s Chrome or Mozilla’s Firefox anytime soon, but IE9 is worlds apart from the earlier versions of Internet Explorer, which I found effectively unusable (way too slow and ridiculously, even comically obtrusive). [...]
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Finally! It’s been a while, and in case anyone reads this blog, that’s why it looks different. (I decided to change the theme, too.) That’s it!
Today was the first day of our summer school at TestMagic. As is always the case, I’ve been pretty nervous for the past few weeks while enrolling students, coordinating schedules for our teachers, and deciding on the best materials to use with our new students. And as always, today once I was in the classroom [...]
Review of the Disc-Go-Pod PLUS. For the price (currently $500), it may not do what you want.
Just got this via FedEx Ground today. I remember because the delivery guy was on his cell phone jabbering away in Brasilian Portuguese outside my door. (What’s with San Francisco delivery drivers and Brasilians, anyway? I swear they’ve got half of the driving jobs in the City!) So the Google Christmas (or whatever holiday you [...]
I used to have this really wonderful and stylish black plastic Waterman fountain pen I bought in Paris. It had an orange clip and cost about US $5 (30 francs, I think.). It was cool because it looked good–the plastic was a kind of nylon-like softish plastic with a matte finish. And it wrote pretty [...]
San Francisco Chronicle Interviews Erin (Article has a photograph, too.) Last week I was interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle (by Ellen Lee) about the CD-swapping site lala.com (see my review of lala). I talked for a while, a bit more than 30 minutes, if I recally. A freelance photographer (Megan Rathfon) came over to [...]
If you’ve never heard of lala.com, here’s the quick run-down: a bunch of really smart people, with lots of seed money, have set up a system whereby you can trade CDs with other people for a dollar or so. It’s basically an intermediary for CD trading. To simplify further, to trade CDs that you have, [...]
Yeah, I know it was an obscure DC ‘zine before zines were cool, but I loved this publication. And I talked to the publisher, Linda, a bunch of times at various clubs, including the short-lived Pub Club and Cagney’s. To this day, I remember Love Monkey: Love monkey, love monkey, set me free. It’s gonna [...]
I dabbled in photography in college and even took a few classes as electives. I enjoyed them, but my teacher (Dr. Mary Hammond) was very old-school, and never let us use any of the various technologies available to us. She said all you needed was a Pentax K1000, a good lens, and lots of film [...]