Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Recently I've actually finished two books. I didn't like Jon Stewart's anthology Naked Pictures of Famous People as much as I'd hoped, although a few of the pieces were worthwhile. I especially liked "The Devil …
I book-traded today at the Ashby BART flea market. Among my gains: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. Now that Nandini and I have read "The Minority Report" and "We Can …
After a great (really!) Saturday with Leonard in Colma, I raced to Albany to watch Zed Lopez perform in a bit of improv. Quite fun, and free, and a reminder that I miss performing, be …
Done with Democracy From Scratch, which was the big hurdle because it's a book, not a bunch of easy-to-skim articles that basically give you the gist in the first page. In Democracy From Scratch, Fish …
In the nongraphical web browser lynx, if you use the left-arrow key to access the previously viewed web page but there is no previous web page, you get this message: "You are already at the …
Douglas Coupland's Microserfs is very, very good. I found myself returning to it after I'd finished, locating plot twists and insights. Its style reminds me of weblogs, since it's in diary-to-unspecified-audience form, and it's inspiringly …
I finished Douglas Coupland's Microserfs. Anirvan and other friends had raised my expectations of this book, and Coupland matched them. A very good book. It made me tear up and several times it made me …
Downloading Mozilla 1.0 over dialup, so I'm visiting Slowtown for the duration. Mozilla has gone through something like 15 "milestone releases," so don't fear the "1.0" moniker, I suppose. I finished Divorce Your Car! by …
I really enjoy the current reading for my Russia After Politics class. I actually got excited at the suspense of the following excerpt: "An important question is how different the reform process under Khrushchev was …
I really need to get enough sleep and nutrition and stretch regularly if I aim to use the bike as my primary mode of transportation. Today the ride to school seemed much harder than it …