Programming and politics

Yesterday I ran in the San Jose Spring Run . I ran the 5K run. I wrote about the race a few weeks ago. It was a great experience. I ran 31:...

A little over three years ago now, the United States invaded Iraq. I remember all too well where I was when it happened. I was flying to Las...

Google's new financial site, Google Finance has been covered by many today. It is widely billed as an answer to Yahoo's very succes...

That past month or so in the Bay Area has been cold and wet. One of the few nice things about such weather is the snow it puts on top of man...

I'm running in my first race in a couple of weeks, The San Jose Mercury News Spring Run . There's actually three races, a 10 K race,...

By now I'm sure you've seen the Katrina video , showing President Bush being briefed on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's landfall....

  This morning I saw this article on News.com: Europe aims for its own MIT | CNET News.com . Now of course I was immediately annoyed by the ...

Super Bowl XL is an Instant Classic. Ok, so not really. It was actually a pretty poorly played game in most ways. Last year's Super Bow...

I saw a piece on TV this morning and read this article about people pirating episodes of Howard Stern's radio show on P2P networks. N...

I picked up Silent Alarm by Bloc Party this weekend. It's an immediately catchy record. Lots of great rhythms and guitar riffs. I...

Scottie Pippen's never really been known as somebody you'd call "admirable." Nobody can ever forget the playoff game wher...

Yeah I know I sound like any random person from the Bay Area. However, after reading this article , I am really convinced that The President...

This turned out to be a good weekend for cycling. I've been cycling a couple of days a week now since I got my bike for Christmas. I exp...

My wife and I are long-time Sprint cell phone customers. Well actually, we were long-time Sprint customers. My wife wanted to upgrade her...

My wife bought me a bicycle for Christmas. Here's a picture of me with it: She got it for me to give me some variety in my exercise rout...

The Microsoft -- Yahoo -- Google contest got off to a quick start this year at CES . Each company was there making keynote speeches at CES...

There I said it. Somebody needed to. There seems to be this notion that Michael Vick's game cannot be questioned. Anybody who says ...

It's been a long time since I've blogged. I've had a good reason. My wife and I had our second child on November 17. We had lot...

The big news in football this week has been the suspension of Terrell Owens. The whole thing kind of reminds me of the steroid controversy ...

This morning I voted in the California Special Election. It was a pleasant experience. There was a poll at the school next to my house, so ...