Cyrus Farivar

Yay! Oakland is on its way to getting a citywide network! [via MuniWireless]

Well, if you’re not a big enough geek to read the site on a regular basis, you can read everything that I write: here.

Well, I have to say this about Engadget: they sure know how to hook a brother up. Got the dude a 15-inch MacBook Pro, and a 24-inch Dell monitor to go with it. It’s pretty freakin’ sweet. I’ve been getting a crash course in all things Engadget over the last few days — and a couple of my posts have already hit digg. I’ve barely had time to follow my own email and RSS feeds. I begin full-time tomorrow bright…

Thanks for following me on my adventures, and for all of your support. I am now going to be the new Senior Associate Editor at Engadget. You can find my occasional personal ramblings here, and my more coherent daily stuff over there.

A new friend emailed me this morning, asking me about why I pronounce my name the way I do, and so I figured it was high time that I actually write up something to have for posterity. The name itself is Persian, but of Greek origin. The original Persian name is Kourosh (koo-ROSH). The one whom Anglophones call Cyrus the Great, is known in Persian history as Kourosh-e Bozorg, but as Greek lacks an “sh” sound, it became Kouros (koo-ROS).…

Go read my first Engadget post, on how Britain is banning Segways on sidewalks. I was over at Ryan’s house tonight, getting my first crash course in all things Engadget. It’s going to be a lot of fun, I can already tell. 🙂 (Those of you who’ve followed my work for a long time may remember my Daily Cal guest column from February 2004, where I took a Segway for a test drive.)

The Los Angeles Times has a great article about the $10 sweet spot for a good bottle of wine: That’s because for most people who buy and drink wine, $10 somehow feels like the right amount to spend on a bottle most of the time. Sure, there are the serious wine aficionados who think nothing of spending $40 or $50, or even $100, on a bottle for Saturday night. But for most of us, $10 is what Kyle Meyer, wine…

Dave Winer has created something pretty damn sweet. A readable, portable version of The New York Times that I can read on my Treo. Normally I just stick to mobile.bbc.co.uk and mobile.latimes.com, because they’re the only news sites that I read regularly that have good mobile support. Point your mobile browser here: nytimesriver.com. Thanks, Dave!

Dear Friends: It’s official. My last day at Macworld will be August 25, 2006. On August 28, I will begin a new phase in my career as Senior Associate Editor of Engadget. For those of you who might not be familiar with it, it’s the most popular blog out there. Period. It draws tons of readers each day and does its best to attract in the hardest of the hardcore gadget-heads. I will be working out of my neighbor’s home…

I dreamt that I had to go rescue a female journalist who was across the Cuban border. (Somehow my brain didn’t remember that Cuba is an island.) And in the dream, the border was on a rolling hill type environment (not unlike, say, Napa Valley) with a pair of black metal fences marking each border. There were large posts with horizontal bars connecting them, but with enough space to squeeze through, between the lower bar and the ground. I slid…