Not surprisingly, when one’s daily life is ruled by work, and one has vowed to mention work as seldom as possible in one’s blog, one has nothing to say. At least, nothing that hasn’t already been said. Marrakech is astonishing, especially the giant square in the middle of town. Been there three time...
Escaping the rising waters of the Tiber, I arrive in Casablanca. No, really. Not as a final destination, but en route to Marrakech. And when you’re stuck in an international airport, where a Gold Frequent Flyer card gets you nothing but abuse because you are not leaving the country, and you’ve rea...
Good to see that big tech employees feel no need to hide their dirty laundry away. Tim Bray over at Ongoing has an update on the simple observation that Microsoft’s Developer Network website contains horrible code. So does Sun, where he works. And IBM. I’m by no means au fait with the technicali...
Oh but this is fun. I had left a little comment on scifiheaven's web site about my search for the true source of the Who needs bird flu vaccine letter. And the poster gamely issued a retraction, which is nice. That would be the end of it, but for a rather odd remark. Chris, in the retraction, sa...
San Luis Obispo is close to my heart, and not just because of Aldous Huxley's entertaining After Many A Summer Dies the Swan, which informed my own thinking about neoteny and such. So it was fun to receive an email from a friend containing a clever letter to the editor of The Tribune in that f...
