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I am rather appalled by the continuing aftermath of the publication of a few single-frame cartoon images of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper nearly half a year ago. A natural question has gone unasked: how many, if any, of those protesting have actuall...
Continue readingAbout half a year ago, I decided to go sign up for a Vonage account. This was mainly because I found myself needing to send faxes quite a bit, and it didn't seem too expensive. So I signed up....
Continue readinga very rambling and awfully incoherent saturday writing, done without the benefit of breakfast, or even lunch....
Continue readingI had a weird experience today chatting with a hacker on ICQ who had taken over my friend's account. The conversation's too weird to have made up:...
Continue readingSome of you may have noticed that david.weekly.org was down last week for several days. Email to me bounced and there was general havoc in my online life. What happened? Did I get slashdotted? No....
Continue readingThis article describes modern ad-blocking technique, their effectiveness, and how advertisers are likely to work around them....
Continue readingThe PS3 will be significant for Blu-Ray. And vice versa....
Continue readingI'm still a business newbie, I'll admit it. I haven't made a million dollars yet and I haven't been on the cover of a magazine in a while. Although I was the subject of a Fortune cover article back in the day. But it's been m...
Continue readingThis article explains why thin form-factor servers like blades may not be a good idea....
Continue readingThis article describes a system for making useful transcripts of Voice over IP VoIP chats....
Continue readingThe Intellectual Property Wage Slave or Why You Should Quit Your Job A study of the productivity of software programmers shows the most talented coders to be over 100 times more efficient than the meanest. It is clear, however, that there is nowhe...
Continue readingA few days ago, it occured to me that it would be useful if my alarm clock knew to awake me an hour before my first appointment of the day, as automatically pulled down from my Yahoo! Calendar. All the alarm clock would really need to do is to have a...
Continue readingA number of friends have asked me of late what my take is on podcasting. It's certainly a hot new buzzword; but is it really the "next step for blogging"? It doesn't seem obvious to me....
Continue readingThe cell phone market bugs me. It seems to have been taken over by marketers utterly out of touch with the reality of what people are looking for in a phone, their singular focus instead on a cheap game of one-upmanship with the competition. In recen...
Continue readingSo here we are, post-election, and George Bush has won. A lot of people, Bush supporters and otherwise, are dumbfounded by the numbers. The Republican party absolutely and surprisingly spanked the Democratic party to a degree that nobody really expec...
Continue readingYour blog can and will be used against you in a court of law....
Continue readingSo I'm back from Ghana, safe and sound minus a nasty cold I picked up on some continent. I never get sick! The camp was a resounding success; sorry for not posting more here earlier, but it's been a total zoo. I got back last night at 2pm a...
Continue readingOh, every day has such ups and downs! It's hard to compress it all here. Immediately after the last update, I think I gave the talk of my life &8211; the kids in the afternoon were a lot more jazzed up than the morning kids, which shouldn't...
Continue readingI just got done teaching the morning session; with two classes a session and two sessions a day, I have to lecture the same material four times, all while trying to keep the kids excited and engaged. My first tack was to try and give them a brisk wal...
Continue readingBusy Internet strikes again. Internet here is 12,000 cedis per hour. The exchange rate is very roughly 10,000 cedis per dollar. It's actually more like 9k and change So that's around $1.25/hour, which isn't so bad and certinaly doesn&8...
Continue readingI'm at "Busy Internet" in Accra right now. We've been calling the people who did and didn't manage to make the program. It seems that instead of taking 50 kids, we're going to try and take 100 kids, doing two sessions a...
Continue readingSo I'm writing this from a computer lab in Accra; it's nicely modern, with about 50 pentium 4-2000 machines, but it's about 1500ms to anything really interesting on the Internet backbone and the speed's not that fabulous. But it w...
Continue readingOh boy. I'm two days away from hopping on a plane to Accra, Ghana to go teach kids about science, technology, and the Internet. Much of our planning is very last minute as we're trying to slap together a curriculum, local sponsorship, etc....
Continue readingI would like to thank President Bush for his efforts to expand democracy around the world. He's done a really incredible job, but not in the way that he may have anticipated. In his efforts to found democracies on the other side of the globe, he...
Continue readingThe following is the poem "Ithaca" by the famous Greek poet Cavafy, in its translation by Rae Dalven, the original Greek, and also with my own horribly-bastardized pronunciation guide for the Greek. Note that the translation is not line-bas...
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