Cyrus Farivar

So randomly, yesterday afternoon, my computer decided that it was going to freeze and wouldn’t boot properly. It would just hang on the blue startup screen. Of course, I need it for everything — especially now for my thesis (first draft due on Sunday) — so I’ve spent since 9 am this morning getting it back to normal. This involved a trip downtown to buy more RAM (which I needed anyway), a total wipe and reinstall, and now getting software…

The New York Times has finally caught on to the idea that the dot-com bubble has burst. Executive Editor Bill Keller is said to be planning to end “Circuits” as a stand-alone section covering the high-tech world by the end of April. In its place, he’s said to be mulling a new section dedicated to shopping, fitness and fashion. Trip Gabriel at Sunday Styles, and the Science section’s Rick Flaste, are rumored to be the editors in line to head…

02:00 AM Mar. 03, 2005 PT by Cyrus Farivar Checking out a new iPod now applies to more than shopping trips or web browsing. This week the South Huntington Public Library on Long Island, New York, became one of the first public libraries in the country to loan out iPod shuffles. For the past three weeks, the library ran a pilot program using the portable MP3 devices to store audio books downloaded from the Apple iTunes Music Store. They started…

Zug.com: FLORAL SHAPE ADHESIVES JH: No, I’d also like to discuss item #141-869. VS: OK, the Floral Adhesives. JH: What are these things? VS: These are basically, ah, a lot of people wear them, they attach to the ends of your breast, so that you could, uh, you can wear a more sheer outfit without being immodest. JH: Are they like those no-slip things you put on the bathtub? VS: I guess you could call them something like that. They’re…

Apparently the J-school faculty has final veto power over who our graduation speaker is. I (and I know many of the other students do as well) want Jon Stewart. Guys, we’ve been working our asses off for months and months, are we really going to gain anything by hearing some bigshot inspirational speaker to wow us with their waxing prose? Can’t we just take ourselves not so damned seriously for one day, and let Jon Stewart serve as King Lear’s…

Update (March 14 2006): This entry has been deleted at the request of my father.

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by Cyrus Farivar 02:00 AM Feb. 25, 2005 PT Fans of the Star Trek: Enterprise TV show are protesting the show’s cancellation with street demonstrations in Los Angeles, New York, Washington, London and Tel Aviv. Trekkies are holding rallies worldwide on Friday to bring attention to their cause. Rallies will be held at the Paramount studios in Los Angeles and at the offices of CBS and the Sci-Fi channel in New York. Additional rallies are set for the local Fox…

Reuters: Thu Feb 24, 2005 01:54 PM ET By Thomas Atkins GENEVA (Reuters) – The “digital divide” between rich and poor nations is narrowing fast, the World Bank said on Thursday, calling into question a costly United Nations campaign to bring hi-tech telecommunications to the developing world. As some 1,700 international experts gathered in Geneva to prepare for the U.N.’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the World Bank said in a report that telecommunications services to poor countries…