It’s been on The New York Times best seller list for 29 weeks and I now know why. Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat provides an explanation of the factors that led to globalization and discusses the implications of globalization upon the U.S. Given the success of the book, my bet is that [...]
We just got a new iMac. It’s a great improvement over the previous versions. Photo Booth is a really fun app; I think it will be an initiation rite for all those who enter our apartment. I do have one gripe: the integrated iSight camera cannot be focused. This is fine if you [...]
Today’s NY Times has two articles that increased my hunch that the country is headed for a recession. First, the new bankruptcy law takes effect on Monday and many people are filing for bankruptcy to avoid the consequences of the new law. The increase in bankruptcy filings is staggering:
I don’t use the new features in Tiger all that much but occasionally they are a real timesaver. Today, I was adding album art features to iTunes2Web and I ended up with a big directory of files, some of which were images. I wanted to see what I had done. I was able to [...]
For the second weekend in a row, I found an article in the New York Times about how the rapid rise of housing prices over the past five years is correlated to a decrease in bankruptcies. The basic idea underlying the phenomenon is that many homeowners have seen a vast increase in home equity [...]
I’ve redesigned my site and am now using WordPress to deliver content. With the move of my site from Penn’s webserver to my own domain, I gained access to a MySQL backend and decided that I had better use it. My presentation is intentionally minimal, perhaps to a fault. Mac OS X Tiger users [...]