Archive for July, 2006

Jim Soriano, Blogger

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Jim Soriano (a frequent commenter here) has a new blog on Vox. Check it out.

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Tim Bray on Ruby

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Tim Bray of Sun has interesting observations about Ruby.

Middle East Cheat Sheet

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Slate has an interesting graphic showing who is a friend (or enemy) with whom in the current unpleasantness in the Middle East.

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You Could Be a Winner

Monday, July 24th, 2006

There’s a clever contest over at Hanan Levin’s Grow a Brain. You may already be a winner of the $100 reward.

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Checks and Balances

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

David Broder writes in The Washington Post about a speech by congressman Barney Frank.

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My Bluetooth Headset

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

This weekend I finally took the plunge and set up a Jaber Bluetooth headset with my Palm Treo 700p. This was my first Bluetooth experience, and it went OK.

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Air Traffic Controller Quotes

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

You need a smile, or several smiles. This should do the trick.

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Zoho Writer

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Zoho Writer is yet another word processing web service. It’s from AdventNet.

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Review of Spore

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Steve Boxer (Next Generation) has a review of Will Wright’s Spore game in Business Week. That’s a long sentence. But you need to read Boxer’s review anyway.

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Update: Jeffries Mideast Peace Plan and Israel II

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

An (anonymous) Cloudy Thinking reader stimulated these enhancements to The Jeffries Mideast Peace Plan.

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The Jeffries Mideast Peace Plan

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

The conflict between Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah is complex. There is plenty of blame to spread around, on all sides, including the United States, Iran and Syria.

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Kurtz: Who is Strumpette?

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Howard Kurtz writes in The Washington Post Who Is Strumpette?.

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