Books I should read

Here are a handful of books hanging out in my Amazon shopping cart waiting to be purchased: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Anthony Bourdain The Open Society Paradox: Why The 21st Century Calls For More Openness–Not Less – Dennis Bailey The Know-It-All : One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person […]

Stickin’ it to da man

I voted early, but I didn’t use one of those creepy touchscreen voting machines. I got a paper ballot instead. Yes, I know that California isn’t using the Diebold machines (my county is using AVC Edge). But I still think we need a better electronic voting system. I am biased towards David Chaum’s Votegrity system, […]

McWireless

Ariella and I are at McCafe on El Camino Real in Palo Alto. She’s preparing materials for a lecture she’s giving this week, and I’m writing annual performance reviews for my team. If you buy a coffee drink (I got an Americano for $1.45) you get a free hour of wireless internet access. 802.11b/g network […]

In Beijing

I’m in Beijing and checked into the hotel. Extremely nice place. Complimentary broadband Internet. Air China flight 984 from LAX ended up being delayed 12 hours due to mechanical problems. It’s a real bummer, since I was supposed to give a “Platform Overview” talk at the conference this morning, but I missed the entire first […]