The weekend in New Jersey was pretty fun. Marc’s Bar Mitzvah went off with approximately the standard number of glitches for such things, which amounts to a success. I had the honor of lugging the Torah around after all the portions were read (it was a mere thirty pounds; not bad for a Torah). Unfortunately, […]

Some interesting things have been going on recently. Instead of writing a large diatribe that would probably just turn into one big amalgam of incoherent words and thoughts (can words be incoherent in the context of other words?), I thought I’d just put together a (relatively) brief list.

I’ve had my Motorola v600 since June 2004. […]

Originally, there was one — AT&T, f.k.a American Telephone and Telegraph. Then, in 1984 (somewhat ironically), the split of Ma Bell into its regional components completed. AT&T gave birth to seven regional Bell companies. 22 years after the break up of telephony’s “natural monopoly” and ten years after the passage of the Telecommunications Act of […]

After reinstalling Slackware, recompiling a 2.6.x kernel, playing with settings, installing drivers, and praying the graphics card wouldn’t die, I’ve got atlas back in its spot underneath my desk. It appears that the graphics card’s fan isn’t working, causing the card to gradually overheat over time. That explains why leaving it off for a day […]

The movie and music industries have figured out how to maintain growth without having to change how their business works. Instead of getting more high-quality content made and released, they just want you to buy the same stuff two or three or four times. How do they do this? Different formats. I can buy the […]