Mostly random pontification, delivered at irregular intervals.

Soapbox titles (chronological)

The value of over-the-counter service (2008-04-24)

Adobe "Creative" Suite 3, a mixed bag (2007-05-10)

Is Vista a piece of unalloyed garbage? (2007-03-18)

Not-so-pop cultural references (2006-11-18)

Trimming the fat from JPEGs (2006-04-22)

Shun till done (2006-02-05)

Interesting factoids (2005-10-15)

The real story behind the WSIS (2005-10-10)

The resistible ascension of the smartphone (2005-10-09)

Here, take my money. Please. Pretty please? (2005-09-25)

Free association (2005-08-24)

One reason why I am proud to be French (2004-12-28)

Pay for the razor, pay for the blades (2004-11-16)

The only good DRM is dead DRM (2004-10-08)

Annals of idiotic California legislation (2004-10-01)

Attack of the London taxis (2004-04-25)

Are Americans becoming second-class consumers? (2004-04-17)

Misremembering the Alamo (2004-04-04)

The megapixel myth, a pixel too far? (2004-02-10)

Sessions must die (2004-01-27)

Homo trium literarum (2004-01-02)

Escape from TiVo (2003-12-01)

The true cost of externalities (2003-05-27)

Geeks are not immune to racism (2003-05-20)

A curious standard of democracy (2003-05-09)

Lysenko and the creationists (2003-04-10)

Good riddance to CRT monitors (2003-03-12)

Coble says internment of Japanese-Americans was appropriate (2003-02-15)

Columbia and the coming inquiries (2003-02-03)

A glimpse inside the weird world of the Raëlians (2002-12-27)

Pac Bell White Pages follies (2002-10-25)

Southern revisionism is indefensible (2002-10-01)

Bad local government kills (2002-09-19)

A sordid spectacle in Egypt (2002-09-16)

Donating old computers (2002-09-12)

Objects are aristotelician (2002-09-07)

Chicken Hawks (2002-08-21)

'blogs are not the end-it-all of journalism (2002-08-15)

Obituary: Edsger Dijkstra and Laurent Schwartz (2002-08-08)

Online usage now exceeds TV (2002-04-04)