• The freetards won yesterday (and why I’m forking VLC for iOS)

    Edit: I regret my choice of words in this post (and in the title in particular); I wasn’t writing with my own voice; I was…

  • On banning military funeral protests

    I have to say that I feel like the gay rights movement has come a long ways when the so-called “most hated family in America”…

  • The year of the tablet

    “Oh no he di’n’t!” I was having a civil conversation with some guy who was trying to explain to me how Apple would do much…

  • Why I’m excited about the Mac App Store

    The Mac App Store is launching tomorrow, and it’s arguably the most exciting thing to have happened to Mac developers since XCode.  If you’re a…

  • Agile government

    While our political airwaves keep getting cluttered with endless talking points about spending vs. providing government services, I can’t help but feel like it’s a…

  • The scandals of Wikileaks

    It seems the US government is doomed to never learn from history.  Though I’m a little late to the party and the controversy du jour…

  • Mmm, California. Beautiful!

    It’s a little bit mind blowing to me that two weeks ago was Thanksgiving day (edit: I started writing the post two days ago.).  I…

  • Leaving On a Jet-ta

    Hello friends, If you closely stalk me on Facebook you are probably already aware that I am leaving the Midwest to go to California, where…

  • Transphobia in the LGB community

    As the trans day of remembrance passed by (not sure whether it was Friday or yesterday, but it did pass by), I’ve seen a few…

  • The Mac App Store – not a freedom apocalypse!

    When Apple announced that they were developing an App Store for desktop OS X (which I guess I can start calling OS X again now…