Thanks to posts by Daniel Davies that I read five years ago, I sounded like a big old smartypants in the first session of a government budgeting and finance class last night. Advantage: blogosphere!

Due to a peculiar electives situation this semester in the tech management master's program, my cohort has had to look around the university for classes to take. I'm trying to take a cost-benefit analysis class …

I arrived back home today. Much thanks to Michael and Julia, Alexei, Rachel and Jeremy, Zed and Jennifer, Angel, Susan and Daniel, and Claudia and Andrew for putting me up, and thanks to about twenty-one …

I am back in San Francisco and will be here and around till the 15th.

Last night I conversed with Leonard about the humor project that's been in the back of my mind for years: a comedic retelling of the Mahabharata akin to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Once …

I post lots of little links in the del.icio.us account that Leonard and I share, and that keeps this blog from just being a mass of commentless links. But every once in a while I …

Scott Rosenberg and Joan Walsh remember the kind and talented Bob Watts, who died today. I worked with Bob at Salon. He was in Editorial, which kind of intimidated me. I was more on the …

According to a blog that watches the public domain, as of yesterday lots of works became free for all of us to reprint, remix, and generally be creative with. Depending on the country you're in, …

Tapestry The First Duty Pegasus Chain of Command Allegiance The Drumhead The Game The Masterpiece Society I, Borg Ensign Ro Loud as a Whisper Samaritan Snare A Matter of Honor The Ensigns of Command Lower …

I like to do productive things on New Year's Eve/Day. Today I burned through a hundred new channel submissions in the Miro video podcast guide. Cool discovery: Cinemaniacal, featuring the Unisphere making-of short and short …