I've seen a lot of angst on my friends page today about the meaning of the Six Apart acquisition, and I'd just like to say that I think Six Apart is a fundamentally decent company ( Read more... )

More and more in the last few years, I've been seeing efforts to encourage people to give charitable donations on behalf of other people, in lieu of giving that person a gift. The idea seems to be that Christmas, in particular, has become excessively commercialized, and that thinking of those in need is more in keeping with the true spirit of the ( Read more... )

I'm planning to switch mobile phone providers (for the first time in years -- I'm kind of scared about it, actually), which means I will wind up getting a new phone. The two top candidates for me are the Sony Ericsson T616 (almost exactly like the T610) and the Sony Ericsson T637 (almost exactly like the T630 ( Read more... )

I sometimes read materials from Focus on the Family. Even though my views on many issues are quite the opposite of theirs, I still think they have a lot of worthwhile things to say ( Read more... )

( regional language meme )

Apologies to those of you who have already seen this, but I just had to pass it along...

The case of the 500-mile email

On the radio today, I heard people talking about the "post September 11 world," and how it was "the day the world changed ( Read more... )

Beloit College has published its annual Mindset List, providing those of us who are rather older than the average college freshman with some reminders of where they're coming from. While I don't think it's as good as it has been in some past years, my favorite items from this year's list are ( Read more... )

I've decided to support Howard Dean for president in 2004 ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening on my way home from work, I saw a bird hopping around inside an illuminated sign. Since I was at a stop light, I watched it for a while and decided it was a mourning dove. The whole experience was sort of like watching a shadow play, especially after a second mourning dove got in on the action -- they kept climbing up inside the ( Read more... )