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 2007
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Jaan Kross, 1920 – 2007
Posted on December 30, 2007 | No CommentsThe world has lost its most preeminent Estonian writer, Jaan Kross. Sadly, I don’t have the eesti keeles skills to have read him in his native language, but on my most recent trip to Eestimaa, I was happy to have been able to find a... -
What’s this? Another Bay Area Belgian bar?
Posted on December 28, 2007 | No CommentsWhile it may not be as close and convenient and convivial as The Trappist — William Brand points to the recent opening of La Trappe, a new Belgian bar and restaurant in North Beach, across the Bay. This is definitely going to be my pre-Bimbo’s... -
Cyrus on NPR – TODAY!
Posted on December 26, 2007 | No CommentsDear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on new WiFi devices will air on Morning Edition All Things Considered today! It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams). New York – 4 pm to 6:30 pm Eastern –... -
WSJ profiles Carl Kasell
Posted on December 22, 2007 | 1 CommentWSJ: The 1 a.m. brrrrrring from the alarm clock — no problem. “I’ve always loved working in the morning,” he said. “You’re waking up in Washington, D.C. You’re looking out the window and watching this sleeping giant wake up. And I’m right in the middle... -
AutoPrint 2.0
Posted on December 22, 2007 | No CommentsI just found this awesome Greasemonkey script, Autoprint 2.0, which automatically switches to the print version for a whole host of news websites. -
As Earth Warms, Virus From Tropics Moves to Italy
Posted on December 22, 2007 | 1 CommentNYT: After a month of investigation, Italian public health officials discovered that the people of Castiglione di Cervia were, in fact, suffering from a tropical disease, chikungunya, a relative of dengue fever normally found in the Indian Ocean region. But the immigrants spreading the disease... -
Sarmad Ali’s first Christmas
Posted on December 21, 2007 | 1 CommentFrom Sarmad Ali’s new blog, Baghdad Life: I celebrated my first Christmas in 2004, after I had moved to the U.S. to attend Columbia University. One of my classmates, who became one of my best friends here, invited me first for Thanksgiving and then for... -
Behold, the power of Schengen!
Posted on December 21, 2007 | No CommentsEstonia and a whole host of other countries joined the expanded Schengen Zone today! > -
Geography matters in Silicon Valley. Um, duh?
Posted on December 20, 2007 | No CommentsNo offense to Steve Lohr, but I’m not really sure what the point of his piece in today’s Times “Silicon Valley Shaped by Technology and Traffic” was. As far as I can tell, the main message is “geography matters.” Is this news to anyone, in... -
One quarter (roughly) done
Posted on December 17, 2007 | 2 CommentsWow. I just finished a very very very rough draft of the Iran section of my book. Yikes. This writing stuff is hard. It weighs in — with a few thousand words’ worth of holes — at about 22,000 words right now.
