Articles by gjost

  1. Internet Freedom Day AKA Aaron Swartz Day

    Wed 16 January 2013
    By gjost

    From nakedcapitalism.com:

    In six days, on January 18th, it’s the one year anniversary of the blackout of Wikipedia, and some have discussed celebrating it as Internet Freedom Day. Maybe we should call this Aaron Swartz Day, in honor of this heroic figure. While what happened that day was ...
  2. The iPad: nice, but not for me

    Thu 28 January 2010
    By gjost

    So Apple released a new computer yesterday. It looks like something from some flying-car-personal-jetpack future. The interface is really slick and it's probably a dream to use. I'm sure a ton of people are going to get one, and it probably represents something as profound as the Apple ...

  3. It's still Christmas at Union Station

    Thu 03 January 2008
    By gjost
    still xmas in union station

    One of the things I enjoy most about my commute is walking through the lobby of Union Station. It's a really great public space and worth walking out of my way.

    Yesterday I got an extra treat: they still have the Christmas decorations up, so I snapped a couple ...

  4. Kit-Cat Pie

    Tue 31 May 2011
    By gjost

    I've just finished my last piece of a Kit-Cat Pie, a culinary delicacy from the 1600s, which I heard about while reading the third book in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle trilogy. <!-- SUMMARY_END -->

    Kit-Cat Pie with some ale

    The Baroque Cycle is set in the 1600s, at the dawn of modern science, finance, and ...

  5. Learning Perl

    Tue 03 May 2011
    By gjost
    Learning Perl, 5th ed (O'Reilly)

    I'm cramming through Learning Perl again (last time was back in 1997) to get up to speed for a potential gig. After 13 years of Cold Fusion, Java, PHP, Python, and after hearing Randall Schwartz talk on FLOSS Weekly about how Perl looks like line noise, I have to ...

  6. leaving facebook...

    Mon 10 May 2010
    By gjost

    That's right, I've left all my groups, deleted all my photos, and I'm going to be deleting my Facebook account pretty soon. It doesn't mean I don't like you, it just means that I'm tired of Facebook and its (lack-of-)privacy policies. Plus I ...

  7. The Liberal Media Conspiracy

    Wed 13 February 2008
    By gjost

    I'm reading a couple articles that were mentioned in a Revolution in Jesusland posting about how young evangelical voters are not necessarily Republicans (thank God this is finally starting to happen!).

    The ABC News article says that those interviewed for the story were at "a concert and a rally ...

  8. Little Tokyo Unplugged

    Thu 03 January 2008
    By gjost

    Was just down at Las Galas in Little Tokyo, enjoying a chicken bowl and some free wifi, courtesy of Little Tokyo Unplugged. Would've written this posting from there, but my sister IM-ed me and we chatted about stuff while I ate. Just another example of what's cool about ...

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