Nope, RCN isn't available at our new apartment. Luckily, Comcast is ready to give us one third the speed, for only five bucks more! Guaranteed to be buggy and unavailable at inconvenient times, too.

How does a company this bad get away with it so effectively?

It's a nice feeling when you're having an off day, but you realize that this one isn't as bad as they've been in the past. When your worst is getting better, that's a good thing.

How far can a cool mustache and a bad attitude really take you in life?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-drips-with-ambition-can-it-fulfill-googles-grand-web-vision/Read more... )

I love Boston, but sometimes, I just can't shake the feeling that Boston sucks.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/05/07/o.Oprah.Interviews.Daniel.Pink/index.html

My first reaction to this was: why, why does everybody like to lump engineering and computer programming in with "left-brain", non-creative, ( Read more... )

During the presidential campaign, much ado was made of Obama's desire to "spread the wealth." McCain's people tried to spin this as socialism: Obama wanted to redistribute wealth to the masses ( Read more... )

Software is a strange world to me. I'm now in my third year in the industry, and every day is deja vu; this all feels very much like my senior year of high school, when I backed into computer science at RPI because it was what I knew and RPI was the only school that admitted me ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder about what I'm doing with my life. Then I remember that I'm still just a kid.

There's so much beauty in the world, and there's no point to any of it... and that's beautiful, too.