Blog Master G

Be Prepared: The motto of not just the Boy Scouts of America, but also CNN, which, according to the The Smoking Gun, likes to have these little memorials handy…just in case. Any bets on whether the current state of affairs in the country, the world, and Iraq would be different if this Cheney obituary were […]

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Tuesday night Jen and I hit the quirky Stork Club in Oakland (where there’s a year-round Christmas motif and Barbie dolls and Star Trek action figures lining the bar) to see friend and Jen’s coworker Joe’s band play. Here’s a funny photo of Jen and me rockin’ out:

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Today I decided to place my Site Meter counter not only on my blog home page but also on all the other page types in my blog. Why? To get a better representation of the kind of traffic I actually get. People stumble across individual postings in my blog all the time by doing Web […]

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This is the greatest story I’ve read in a long time: Yahoo! TV: Entertainment News & Gossip – ‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING Some snippets: Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock […]

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Since one of the elements of my blog that I really value is its functioning as a forum for open discourse, I’ve created a new template to view a listing of all comments to date (link also accessible from right-hand navigation on blog main page and archives page).

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It’s been one week to the day since I taught my first class. I’ve been meaning to write about it here, but kept forgetting to do so until now. In any case, I’ve added this about the class to my archives page. You see, Enoch teaches HTML classes for UC Berkeley Extension. He’s currently in […]

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Anna Quindlen has an excellent commentary in the April 21, 2003 issue of Newsweek: The Sounds of Silence. Whether you support the war in Iraq or not, I challenge you to provide a valid argument that justifies some of the disgusting behavior we’ve recently witnessed. Americans are afraid to speak out against the war (save […]

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Way back when I realized that a Google search for Vassar alum brought up the San Francisco Bay Area Vassar Club (of which I was once president/chair) as the number one search result. I also realized that the link on my home page was pointing to said site. So as a little experiment, I changed […]

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Jen and I have been talking about possibly getting Tivo. But maybe now we won’t have to, thanks to the beauty of open-source (free) software: Freevo. My home computer primarily runs Windows 2000, but I also have an instance of Red Hat Linux installed on it, so I can easily toggle between the two thanks […]

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Yet another reason to be jealous of anyone who works there: Google Daily Menus.

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