• On misunderstandings of Apple and 1984

    People LOVE to notice new behavior in Apple hardware and software and liken it to an Orwellian future in which Apple is harshly dictating what…

  • On the US’s relationship with job creators

    Whenever there is a push for increased regulation on industries in the US, we always seem to hold ourselves back due to the threat that…

  • OS X Lion: The King of the OS Forest

    Though my very favorite part of new OS X releases is invariably John Siracusa’s review of it on Ars Technica, it’s a bit… esoteric for…

  • Where’s your god now? A logic-based journey to atheism

    Most atheists you will encounter will assert their atheism on the basis that after hearing unfalsifiable assertions about God and religion and the sola fide…

  • The Twitter OAuth permissions switch debacle

    When Twitter announced a few months ago something along the lines of “hey, I know that almost all innovation for new features for Twitter’s user…

  • Networking: the reality

    What I imagine networking to be: “Oh, hey, Arun, this is Michael, from GreenGerms.  How’s it going? I remember last week when we were chatting…

  • In which @villagevoice and @aplusk both are morons

    Ashton Kuther’s little pissing match with Village Voice really sparked last night. It all started with Village Voice’s cover story which one would expect to…

  • You know why Hulu’s a tough sell?

    Hulu’s a tough sell because right now it’s owned by the networks who wield the most control of all over the content that is on…

  • Blast from the past: Things I want to do before I die

    Back in ’09 I made a Facebook note with a list of things I’d like to get done before I die. Let’s see how I’m…

  • Blast from the Past: WTF^2

    I subscribe to The Daily WTF, which is a blog in which programmers come together to share funny/awful experiences with coding related things they’ve encountered.…