Life, Oh Life Category

Personal posts that are usually lament some aspect of life and those around me.

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Oct 11 | Summer reflections

As it so happens it takes about a month for me to have the time to shift gears between one thing and the next, and as such it's high time for me to put down to pixel the kinds of amazing adventures I've been able to have this past summer.

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Aug 27 | 65 miles of Napa Valley

Sometimes it takes a couple of bubble teas and a week's worth of rest to be able to muse over a weekend of pure awesomeness.

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Jul 19 | Feedback, feedforward

Wired's July edition has a piece on feedback loops, the precise kind of thing I had been investigating with Neema for the past year.

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Sep 14 | Travelling across the country

Sept 3: Departing mileage 128057.

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Jul 6 | What’s wrong with free lemonade

Sometimes there's an argument that is so outrageously idiotic and virulent that it's hard to ignore.

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May 13 | The wild world of acquisitions

Notable Google acquisitions earlier this year included On2 Technologies and Aardvark.

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Feb 7 | The self-righteousness of women

Mujer a la deriva / Woman adrift, private collection.
The more I think about it, the more angry I get.

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Jan 30 | The social network of driving

An interesting article about the psychology of driving suggests that as cars become more "safer" they allow drivers to take more risks.

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Jan 9 | Blinding bureaucracy

I've had the opportunity to read through The Death of Common Sense by Howard and it's made a few things clearer to me, both in a rather depressing way.

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Jan 2 | Predictions for 2010

Happy New Year everyone! Before I go ahead, let's see how accurate I was in last year's predictions for 2009:
Obama was indeed inaugurated and tensions have risen with Iraq, rather obviously.

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