AT&T 3G snafu in Seattle
TechFlash confirms what I Twittered about last night: We’ve been experiencing ongoing problems trying to connect to the Internet using AT&T’s 3GÂ network via our iPhones… Read More »AT&T 3G snafu in Seattle
April 2009
A morning at Boeing
I spent this morning visiting the Boeing plant in Everett and looking around the Future of Flight center. Herewith a few notes and photos, probably… Read More »A morning at Boeing
Keeping calm….
Charlie Stross offers some useful links for those who are worried by the emerging pandemic.
Defining "liberal tolerance"
Russell Blackford takes on Terry Eagleton’s bullshit, and in doing so gives us a particularly good definition of liberal tolerance: A liberal is not someone… Read More »Defining "liberal tolerance"
David Macaulay at the Tacoma Art Museum
Even though I’ve been in Seattle for nearly three years, I’ve never visited the city with which it shares an airport: Tacoma. I’ve driven though… Read More »David Macaulay at the Tacoma Art Museum
In the tradition of the Inquistion…
Andrew Sullivan identifies one of the architects of the Bush/Cheney torture policy: Edward Whelan, who – incredibly – heads up the Ethics and Public Policy… Read More »In the tradition of the Inquistion…
Internet-Age Writing
Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview As print takes its place alongside smoke signals, cuneiform, and hollering, there has emerged a new literary age, one… Read More »Internet-Age Writing
"Speaking of Clouds" #1 on Google… already?
I’m somewhat amazed to see that my new tech-only blog Speaking of Clouds is already the top Google hit for the search “speaking of clouds”… Read More »"Speaking of Clouds" #1 on Google… already?
CloudSlam'09
I’m “attending” the CloudSlam’09 “virtual conference” on cloud computing all this week. I’m also liveblogging my thoughts on the conference over at my new blog,… Read More »CloudSlam'09
The end of an era
Here’s Jonathan’s allsun@ email announcing the Oracle acquisition of Sun. “To me, this proposed acquisition totally redefines the industry,” wrote Jonathan Schwartz this morning to… Read More »The end of an era