Outdated but possibly interesting

In a recent post I wrote about the little reward of a decent lunch after a good run.  I was musing after this post about what makes a run good, or even great.  In my case, I don’t get the endorphin rush from running that some people apparently do.  I feel good after a 5k,…

The saintly Paul Krugman (of whom more later) often helpfully tags his columns in the NYT with the descriptor “wonkish”, or “slightly wonkish”, signifying some more or less baffling piece of economics theory.  I like ‘wonkish’ more than say,  ‘nerdy’, probably because if Krugman likes it, then it’s good enough for me. I mention this…

A while ago I wrote a series of posts on why I really didn’t care too much for Apple and it’s more recent products.  This was matter of complete indifference to Apple and most of the world along with them, but I wanted to be able to articulate explicitly why I found the whole Apple…

Those that regularly visited this site may have been under the impression that I died or became severely incapacitated on or around 16th of October 2011, since all activity stopped  at that time.  Apologies for the sudden cessation and for the lack of any explanation. But here I am back again. The reason for the…

Apple’s all-out assault on Android around the world is Google’s biggest problem by far.  And on the day that Steve Jobs retires, it’s looking bad for Google/Motorola, Samsung and HTC.  Very bad…… In the last post on this subject, I covered Google’s problems with Oracle, and noted that the Apple situation was likely to be…

Google’s Android problems with Microsoft and GNU might seem bad enough.  But they are chickenfeed compared to the trouble they are in with Oracle… In the prior post on this subject, I covered Google’s troubles with Microsoft and the Linux license.  I described these as relatively benign, although the problems may have seemed (and are) quite severe.  …