Apr 22 2008
Today is “Earth Day.” In honor of that, I am posting the following exposé on biofuels. I originally wrote this last year, before the looming global food shortages threw the whole biofuels question into the spotlight. I didn’t post it, however, as I wanted to do more research. But perhaps today is a fitting day [...]
Apr 21 2008
The New York Times has a nice article about Rome at night in yesterday’s Travel section. The Web version includes a slide show and a multimedia walking guide.
It brings me back. Rome is one of my three favorite cities in the world (I haven’t yet decided what the other two are), and as the article [...]
Apr 16 2008
A while ago, the Ririan Project posed an article on 22 tips for high self esteem. It’s a pretty good read and is generally free of feel-good hokum. Most of it is stuff that seems to come naturally to those lucky people who have “natural” high self esteem, but the rest of us could use [...]
Apr 14 2008
When I’m making my various trips through the Web it drives me crazy that there are no standards for how to represent the “previous” and “next” page (or message) links on Web sites. For example, in Yahoo Mail (classic view), when you get to the bottom of a page of messages and want to go [...]
Apr 07 2008
I‘ve been using Twitter lately, which is odd when you consider I had started using it last year and then gave up on it, calling it a colossal waste of time without even the benefit of being fun or useful. But one day two weeks ago I signed in and sent a tweet (a twitter [...]
