“A series of pipes.”
My dad has been hosting his origami site at Geocities for the past several years. I spoke to him yesterday about acquiring a domain name and self hosting the site as Geocities—presently owned and operated by Yahoo—will close its electronic doors very soon. He will move from there to a self-hosted [...]

n. – the opposite of innovation.
Yah, I made up a word: sue me. Actually, don’t sue me. I can’t afford that right now. Between preparing to move out of the country and writing chapter 4 of my thesis—a job I do for very little pay—I’m not in any position for an out-of-court settlement.
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that I am turning into my father
Not that it is a bad thing. Quite the opposite, in fact. However, my dad seems to have this weird set of things that happen to him. For a long time, I admit, I thought that it was because he is just particular or fussy in certain, strange ways. [...]

YOU want mint.
I was walking today and saw a kid standing in the street shouting and waving something in one hand. As I approached, warily, I realized that he was yelling—indeed bellowing—the words: “Who wants mint? YOU want mint! Who wants mint? You WANT mint?” I went out on a limb and assumed that he [...]

Smalltalk backfires to my advantage.
I am really bad at smalltalk. I hate talking about things that I don’t care about or am not interested in, so I am not good at bringing them up.
Now, we all know that when you have nothing to say, you talk about the weather. Well, I was in a [...]

G-mail’s Security Failure affects the business of Graphic Designer

This week graphic designer David Airey’s Google E-mail account was hacked, which allowed for the hacker to hijack his primary domain name by performing an illegal transfer.
If this doesn’t mean anything to you, imagine this scenario: you go online at the computer in your home office [...]

I never really understood what that meant until now.

I spent the weekend in Cairo again, this time attempting to sort out some Arabic lessons for next semester, sort out an apartment and see my friends off back to the U-S-of-A. Everything worked out, it seems.
My friends made it off alright, at least as far [...]

That dread that I feel about flying to the Middle East has nothing to do with fear of flying
Well, I have two weeks until take-off. On my birthday I will experience the joy of flying and sitting in airports for 20 hours. I complain now, but I am very excited about the trip. What I [...]

Again, for those of you who actually read this, of which there are five, I apologize for my recent month-long hiatus. I have been a bit busy, though not gainfully, necessarily.
Recently my dear friend, John Tobey, and I decided to start a design firm. We will be conducting business primarily on the internet as [...]