Why I Keep Buying Nintendos
This article on Nintendo’s Genre Innovation Strategy made the rounds a while ago, but it came up in conversation about the upcoming Nintendo Revolution. It t...
Independence Air Was Too Good To Last
I’m sad to see that Independence Air is filing for bankruptcy, and if no new options become available, they will cease operations after sixty days. Hedda and...
Public Urination
Since Hedda and I moved to DC a few months back, we have collectively called the police more than any other place we have ever lived together. And although I...
Schneier on SHA
My ever-favorite security guru Bruce Schneier has been live-blogging a conference he’s been attending on hash functions. There’s some good stuff in all of th...
Everybody Has My Laptop
As a contractor, I spend a fair amount of time working in various non-traditional office locations. I am partly enabled to choose my work location by the mob...
Requiem for a Blog, or Young Bloggenstein
The DCist is mourning the death of Mayor Tony Williams’ blog. You see - and I never knew this - “a blog that goes without an update for 30 days or more is co...
Are We Really That Much More Likely To Need Health Care?
So after moving into the District, Hedda and I discovered that many things in DC are much more expensive than in Virginia. Okay, make that pretty much everyt...