I was 35 when I started to program. And immediately I loved it. It was as if a part of my brain that had been locked away could suddenly cavort in the broad daylight of ongoing life.
Having developed other skills and burnt though other passions, I was self-conscious about the joys of programming; I […]

When I was a kid, my older brother taught me a few blues chord progressions on the guitar so he could solo soulfully over me. I accepted this division of labor because my deficient sense of rhythm and pitch was immediately, painfully obvious.
I remembered this last week when I hooked up a USB keyboard to […]

Every since I ordered my MacBook, I’ve been obsessively checking its status through Fedex:

This spring I went to Rome for my honeymoon (first time to Rome, first time getting married).
There I met an old acquaintance, the Ugly American…and this time, it was me!
Perhaps you’ve met him: he doesn’t bother adapting himself to the locale, he expects everyone to speak English, and when they decline, he thinks increasing his […]

I've seen commercials for a new Adam Sandler vehicle, Click. It looks like a comedic work-up of the 3-wishes fairy tale, with reality being paused, played and speeded up like a DVD. The back-flap of my Netflix envelope has a Click ad with the tagline: What if you had a universal remote…that controlled your universe?"
Wow–a […]