I’m going to be writing satire for an online UK (British, for the rest of you) magazine called Intuition in the coming months.
For those who don’t know satire is, you can find a satirical definition here. For a no less accurate—but certainly less amusing—definition, click here.
You can find my first piece published there by [...]

“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 [...]

If you haven’t been using the beta of Firefox 3, then now is your chance to download the full release. As an additional incentive, Firefox is going for the world record in single-day downloads today. Give them a hand and download an installer today.
“Why should I?” you ask.
Well, for starters, it’s free. And [...]

New news on an old front
So I may have mentioned previously that I still have no internet in my apartment in Cairo. Some of you may remember that it took me three months to get internet in Alexandria. That was terrible, and I thought that nothing else could be more terrible than that.
Oh was [...]

These are a few of my favorite things

This is my favorite new blog. I was not surprised to see that I do, as a white person, like many of the things listed: just on the first page!
Stuff White People Like
This will be a useful tool for anthropologists of the future to know what the cultural [...]

Swing your partner, Do-Si-Do.
Just as an FYI, I am going to be in less-frequent blogging mode again. I just moved to an apartment in Cairo, thereby losing my hard-fought internet connection. Square one. Now I must begin the process all over again. I have learned some things along the way, though, and these will help [...]

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 [...]

It’s nice when things work out the way that they should.

The fact that you are all reading this right now means that I was able to successfully upgrade my WordPress—which, if I haven’t made clear, is the software that runs this blog and many others. You may look into it at WordPress.org.
With that accomplished, I [...]

No headline will suffice today

So, for those of you who I didn’t call up in the middle of the night ecstatically or bomb your e-mail inbox with the news: I have an internet connection in my apartment.
It was the strangest thing. Yesterday, people were knocking on the door all day. I was getting a [...]

I think that maybe once a week or so, I will refer you all to something that I read and love online so that you can read and love it as well.
This week, I shall refer you to the blog of Dr. Mona El-Farra called From Gaza, With Love. Mona lives in Gaza and [...]