While reading Slashdot yesterday, I noticed that the Register had done an interview with the CEO of Opera, Jon von Tetzchner. In the past few months (for the first time in years) I’ve been using two copies of Opera. One runs on the Nintendo DS, and works reasonably well (where WiFi […]

Well, my birthday was Friday. I took the day off, because it’s against my policy to work on my birthday (I’ve only done it a couple of times in my life.) But also because I’ve been doing some pc upgrades and stuff, and I wanted to play with it. A few weeks […]

As well they should.
Look, I’m a technologist. I like computers, they do a lot of great things. But as a general principle, software sucks. People don’t understand computer security, and most of the e-voting machines don’t fail elegantly to real-world options. (Like the obvious choice of printing a receipt which a […]

It’s one of the hardest things in the world for me to do. Somewhere along the line it just got easier to leave things behind me and focus on just what affects me day by day. I haven’t talked to my birth family in more than a year, with the possible exception of […]