About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Oakland, CATwitter
Archive for August, 2006
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I now have almost 900 GB of storage
Posted on August 21, 2006 | 2 CommentsMy home media/backup server officially has an obscene amount of storage. I have three internal drives and one external: Utnapishtim – 400 GB (I scored this last week for $120 shipped, via DealMac.com) Shamhat – 200 GB Enkidu – 25 GB Humbaba – 250 GB... -
TrackMeNot
Posted on August 21, 2006 | No CommentsSo last week I blogged about cyber security, and Stephen Colbert joked last week about entering random search queries to throw off an online profile. Today, life imitates art: Enter the TrackMeNot Firefox extension. -
What I Just Finished Reading : Shah of Shahs
Posted on August 18, 2006 | No CommentsShah of Shahs, by Ryszard Kapuscinski (1992). A quick read but an intimate literary impressionist tale of the Iranian Revolution and the effects before and after. -
What I Just Finished Reading : Maximum City
Posted on August 18, 2006 | 2 CommentsMaximum City, by Suketu Mehta (2004). An astonishing portrait of a city that I knew nothing about: Mumbai (Bombay). It’s a biographical love letter to a megapolis that sports everything from strippers to Mafia dons and Bollywood stars, with dashes of street poets and masala... -
New Borat Trailer!
Posted on August 18, 2006 | No CommentsForget Snakes on a Plane — it’s all about Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan! Only 76 more days ! There’s a new trailer (in the Borat link above) that was released two days ago. Fucking briliant. -
Chine-Afrique: Le Dragon et l’Autruche
Posted on August 17, 2006 | 6 CommentsSo I don’t know which is more ridiculous, the cover of this new book Chine-Afrique: Le Dragon et l’Autruche (China-Africa: The Dragon and the Ostrich), or the fact that it would cost me 40 € to buy the book and have it shipped to the... -
1947 UN Partition Plan
Posted on August 16, 2006 | 1 CommentI was reading up on Hezbollah on Wikipedia earlier this morning and got side tracked to the 1947 UN Partition Plan. Why doesn’t anyone talk about this anymore? The map is pretty sweet. I wonder if we’ll ever see something like it actually implemented. -
Cyber-Security
Posted on August 16, 2006 | 1 CommentWith all this talk about search data being leaked, I’ve given a little bit more thought to cyber-security. First, I use my ISP‘s VPN almost all the time now. Second, I’ve switched from Fire to Adium, if for no other reason than it’s more customizable... -
Windows on my Mac
Posted on August 15, 2006 | No CommentsThis evening, I installed Parallels Desktop to my Mac, enabling me to run Windows XP on my Mac. It’s a weird feeling. -
Email is back
Posted on August 14, 2006 | No CommentsSeems to be working now.
