Why I won’t buy Averatec again

A little less than two years ago, I purchased a laptop from Averatec, a 6240 series. It was for my parents. A couple of weeks into using it, I discovered that I couldn’t connect it to a TV or to an external monitor, even though it had both an S-Video out port and a VGA [...]

Follow your passion

I find sunrises to be very encouraging. When that sun starts peeking over the horizon and lights everything up in those glorious, golden hues, hope springs anew.

Liberty

Seen at the WWI Memorial in downtown Washington, DC.

Police abuse their power

I’m one to point out abuses of power when I see them. So I couldn’t let this one slip by unnoticed. Some corrupt policeman, at the time (2003) an officer with the Miami police, approached a car where two teens were making out (last I checked, teens have been making out in cars for the [...]

Words of wisdom from Steve Jobs

Found this video on YouTube, and just had to share it with you. It’s the 2005 Stanford Commencement speech, and it’s amazingly inspirational. In it, Steve Jobs tells three stories from his life, and each one has an amazing lesson for us to learn. Whatever you may think of the man, you can’t argue with [...]

Pathetic documentation the plague of Internet

It’s unbelievably ridiculous how hard it is to find documentation on code, in particular code errors. You’d think that by this day and age, people have managed to put together good resources on code like ASP, which has been around for ages, but they haven’t. Here I am, trying to research an error that I’m [...]

A bit of site maintenance

I made time tonight to do a few things that I’ve wanted to get done for some time:

Introduce a new section called Faves, which displays my shared items from Google Reader. This is where I’ll showcase the posts I find really interesting and worthwhile to read from the various blogs and feeds that I’m subscribed [...]

Solid State Disks aimed at wrong market segment

People are making a big to-do about Solid State Disks (SSDs) like this one. While I agree a 128GB size is impressive for SATA-connected flash memory, they shouldn’t be marketed as replacements for regular laptop hard drives. Yes, I think HD damage due to drops is a valid reason to try and use SSDs, but [...]

The HumanCar

I love the idea of the HumanCar, a street-legal vehicle powered by the passengers and a hybrid-electric drive. It’s wonderful!

[via Autopia]

Biking on the Via Appia (part 2)

This is a two-part article. Here’s Part 1.
While in Rome, my brother kept dangling this promise of taking our bicycles out to Via Appia and making a day trip out of it. I wanted to see it because the Via Appia was the most important Roman road of its time. Roman bases, villas and famous [...]

Photos from Rome

In March of ‘99, I visited Rome. It was my first trip to Italy (still is) and I had a wonderful time. I stayed with my brother, who at the time was on a 3-year fellowship there to do research. He studies myths and religions and does comparisons between deities in various cultures. He also [...]

No two ways about it

Seen in Florence, Italy.