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Endgadget whines about Jobs distancing Apple from DRM [http://img.engadget.com/2007/04/02/apple-and-emi-ditching-drm-is-good-but-its-not-good-enough/] This is not a home run by any means, but getting rid of the DRM protections and upping the bitrate to 256K bring me a lot closer to buying albums that I’d like

[https://web.archive.org/web/20130530030801/http://www.waterman.com:80/en/style/pens/edson] After all the writing I did about the pens I do have, how about a little voyage into fantasy? This is the Waterman Edson Black Diamond. It has an 18 karat gold nib, which means

I have two major shopping weaknesses. Well, three if you count electronic junk, but I don’t feel a lot of connection to electronic junk. Sometimes useful toys, but for the most part still toys. No, my virtue and vice gets rolled into two categories: books and pens. I’ve

I remember being six or seven years old when television was explained to me. It was around that time that I asked my dad about lasers. I was astounded to learn that the zap guns that blew up aliens in the movies were just very powerful bursts of light, all

It was on this day in 1854 that the Republican Party was organized. Historically the GOP has stood for some very laudable ideals and has fought effectively for them. Some of the ideals of the Republican Party may seem strange to modern readers who read the news of the Republicans

1315Saw this written into the sidewalk at Second Avenue and Balboa. The phrase evokes a great visual image, don’t you think?

Somewhere along the way I got the crazy idea to do a self-portrait. Mostly I wanted to have something representative of my work on this page. I like the stark black and white template that I use, but it seems a little too dry. I wanted to include something that