Miscellany

(that word always makes me think of Animaniacs.) A recent study in London found that 71% of office workers would share their passwords for chocolate. Knowing the office workers I deal with, I’m only surprised that the percentage is that low. Mikel.org pointed me to this thought-provoking yet depressing piece in the Globe and Mail, [...] [...]

Semi-regular link exhortation, and other miscellaneous stuffs

Not sure why, but every few months I feel compelled to endorse certain sites again and again. The urge is overwhelming right now; you won’t see another post like this for a while. While I’m at it, I’ll also get some relatively minor things out of the way, and clear out some of the links [...] [...]

A confession…

I very nearly converted this entire thing to hexadecimal, but I figured that’d be more trouble than it’d be worth, so I didn’t. Instead, though, I’ll speak proudly of one of my users, who put Scotch tape on the sensors of all the optical mice she could get to. The tape didn’t completely obscure the [...] [...]

More quick hits

This editorial in the SF Chronicle and this editorial in the National Review (!) both urge Condoleeza Rice to testify publicly before the Sept. 11 Commission. (I picked those two because I like ‘em both – which is quite a stretch for the National Review.) Do you use Windows but hate it? Are you looking [...] [...]

Quick hits

again because i’m trying to do all of ‘em in 10 minutes. (It’s late on a Friday afternoon, what do you expect?) The Washington Post waxes poetic about the pure, lower-case-d democratic nature of the September 11 Commission. The New York Review of Books slams the President’s space initiative, on several disparate grounds. This InvisiBlogger [...] [...]