Aside

It’s a gorgeous day in the East Bay. Walking around campus on a sunny day is so much more enjoyable then when it’s dark and gloomy. Today in lieu of going up to see my grandparents’ (they had prior engagements) I went to this seminar on “Wardriving, Wireless Access and the Law” at CFP2004 over at the Claremont Hotel. Was pretty much what I expected, didn’t learn a whole lot, except that when I asked about the legality of what…

Ah, I amuse myself: Wilson and Heeks further their argument by saying that the reason that the traditional media do not get as much attention as ICT [Information and Communications Technologies] does is that “they are just not ‘sexy’ enough to capture decision-makers attention.” Again, this line of thinking is not substantiated at all — the authors did not provide a definition of the term, “sexy.”If by “sexy,” the authors mean that ICT has a certain appeal that these traditional…

Let me just say for the record that having to bring up Marxist political theory in a 2004 undergraduate thesis is pure bullshit. Same goes for its spawned theories, like Galtung’s Dependency Theory. Seriously though, what is Marx good for anymore? We’ve just broken the 35,000 word threshold here, kids. (That’s 103 pages for those of you keeping score at home.) Got a bunch more stuff to add, including a Prologue, Conclusion and random stuff in between. I love Thomas…

Busy. I graduate in a month. My thesis is due in two weeks. Scary. I ditched a bunch of classes this week. I just paid my taxes and SBC bill online. I love paying for things online. It’s so much funner. Was very unimpressed with the Bush speech last night. WashPost had a good piece on it. Best exchange EVER: QUESTION: Mr. President, why are you and the vice president insisting on appearing together before the 9-11 commission? And, Mr.…

You read on an online traffic school quiz that: For your first California license you must provide your social security number and proof that you are in the United States legally. Your thumbprint or fingerprint, if you have no thumbs, will be taken.

Well I hope everyone had a good Passover week / Easter holiday / whatever else you did recently. For some reason yesterday I had a cleaning bug and in one afternoon, managed to clean my bathroom, my bedroom, and the windows of my car (which desperately needed a shot or two of Windex) — for the first time in many many months. I don’t know what overcame me, but I did it. I also tried to do laundry, and managed…

So it’s baseball season, folks… Who wants to go with me? LA Dodgers vs. SF Giants April 16 (Friday) – 7:05 pm April 17 (Saturday) – 1:05 pm April 18 (Sunday) – 1:05 pm $21 – Bleachers NY Yankees vs. Oakland A’s May 5 (Wednesday) – 7:05 pm $2 – Bleachers [$2 Wednesdays, but the A’s also have 50% off for student tickets] LA Dodgers vs. NY Mets August 27 (Friday) – 7:10 pm August 28 (Saturday) – 1:10 pm…

For those of you who hadn’t noticed, Iraq is in rebellion (surprise!) but to me, the more interesting thing is that a lot of big-name Republicans are backing off of this whole ordeal, as the NYT points out in the middle of this story: But in an unwelcome development for the White House, even some right-leaning commentators and political leaders appeared uncomfortable with Mr. Bush’s Iraq policy. Bill O’Reilly, the Fox News commentator who had been one of the most…

Dan Gillmor points to the latest addition from the WTF Dept.: ACLU: WASHINGTON Ð A member of the military, a retired Presbyterian minister and a college student are among seven U.S. citizens who have joined the first nationwide, class-action challenge to the government’s ÒNo-FlyÓ list filed today by the American Civil Liberties Union.

So I’m working on my thesis, and I come across this History of the Internet and this entry, under 1996: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, PLO Leader Yasser Arafat, and Phillipine President Fidel Ramos meet for ten minutes in an online interactive chat session on 17 January. I can just imagine how this one turns out: You are now talking on #worldleaders a/s/l? what? Let’s place outcast — you don’t live on an island! Loser! But the Occupied Territories are…