Just got back from the cinema, where I watched “Funny People“. When I saw the trailer, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to see this film or not. There were a funny scenes, but it looked like a cliché, more or less.  But then I saw a 7.3/10 rating at IMDB and decided that I … Continue reading Funny People
Web Worker Daily reports: With Microsoft’s announcement this week that Outlook and Outlook Express will no longer support desktop access to Hotmail accounts raises some interesting questions on data portability. After 30th June, Microsoft’s Windows Live Mail application will be the only means by which desktop and offline access to Hotmail accounts will be supported. … Continue reading Some people never learn
It’s been a few times already that I heard the argument that “black people made no contribution to computer science“. I’ve also heard a few alternative versions, which were less or more specific, varying from “African blacks” and “no innovations“, to “black women” and “no contribution to science“. Depending on the overall direction of the … Continue reading Black people in science and innovation
In yet another Twitter review (and a nice one at that), I caught this quote (emphasis is mine): If you are a twitterer, you can follow my infrequent tweets under my screen name of tevslin. My last tweet is from 3:45AM this morning complaining that I was up for an early flight. Don’t know why … Continue reading What social people do …
As much as I love people on an individual level, I hate them all on a more global scale. Our civilization sux. And the ones that were before us, it seems, weren’t any better. I’ve been thinking a lot about this, but this post on Slashdot made me blog about it. It’s about space junk. … Continue reading People rulez, civilization sux