blogiversary– return to the future

(Image found on http://www.udel.edu/biology/Wags/histopage/wagnerart/worldspage/worlds.html)
October 9th will be the six-year anniversary of dangblog. I’ll observe this occasion with a return to one of my first posts “Goodbye Monkey Body.” In that post I was a little disdainful of the “transhumanist” movement. Here’s a summary of how I saw it then, and my views haven’t changed [...]

failure of the dorky e-mailers

Failure of the Dorky E-mailers
Please unsubscribe them
for all eternity.
I’m asking you, St. Isidore of Seville;
and you, Tim Berners-Lee;
and you, Zeus,
with your mighty thunderbolts,
to strike them down.
Those who e-mail an entire list to say,
“Please unsubscribe me.”
“How do I get off this list?”
Woe to them
who did not see
the link at the bottom of each e-mail.
The information right [...]

mytouch phone follow-up: the bad points

Now that I’ve had more time to play around with it, here are the least favorable aspects of the phone:
No headphone jack. You have to use an adapter, which is just another tiny item to carry around with you and possibly lose. It’s senseless. I like Pandora and there’s an Android application for it. Pandora [...]

google android

I finally got a cell phone with GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G, and all the other jargon-laden goodies. Since I’m already with T-Mobile and the myTouch looked a bit more economical than an iPhone or a Pre, I got one. When the first bill arrives, I’ll be wrathful.
That’s not my monkey in the photo. I [...]

information just wants to be loved

A recent New Yorker article takes on the digerati notion that “information wants to be free.” For example, Google is free but makes money on ads. The New Yorker is free online. Open source software is free. Computers get cheaper and cheaper. It’s sometimes predicted that music will be free online, and artists will make [...]

blog theme/DSL mystery

If anyone really hates the new WordPress theme I’m using, let me know. I like this one because it has a calendar and three columns.
For more than a month our DSL service was totally unstable. It would go off and on, sometimes every ten minutes. I was rebooting the modem and router all the time. [...]

skeleton update

“…but the Sirens enchant him with their clear song, sitting in the meadow, and all about is a great heap of bones of men.”
I don’t blame my stem cells for wanting to see lots of bone, as Homer’s Sirens did. Even though the cells made more bone than needed, they were just doing their jobs. [...]

i got tired of the old design template

So we’re trying this one for now.