Reflection
Twenty-Seven Years of Writing on the Web
This summer the eighth most-read page on this site was the error page. I got Claude to follow the broken links. They led through five platforms and twenty-seven years,...
Since Hindsight is 2020
Reflecting on twenty years of career transitions — from web design to journalism, digital marketing to building a streaming platform.
The World Without GlassesDispatch
A poem about what the city looks like when you take your glasses off.
Choices; PlacesDispatch
A poem about what a place is, and what it costs to keep choosing one.
Fly.Dispatch
A short poem about the bonds you are born into and the choice to leave them.
True FactsDispatch
20% of Americans think that the sun orbits around the Earth. The thong accounts for 25% of the United States women's underwear market. A party boat filled with 60…
Squashed PhilosophersDispatch
Now here's something interesting...
3quarksdaily: Monday Musing: Stevinus, Galileo, and Thought ExperimentsDispatch
Now this was an excellent way to start a Monday.
Momentous timesDispatch
Will this be the most newsy month in 2005? As I write this Tony Blair is meeting the Queen of England to ask her to dissolve parliament. The BBC journalist…
BallsDispatch
The Srinagar polo grounds are right opposite my hotel. After meeting some people I was walking back with a friend and we were passing the polo ground when we saw a…
SolutionsDispatch
Everybody seems to have a solution to the 'Kashmir Problem.' There is wide disparity as to how to go about achieving peace here, but there is a key phrase that…
water water everywhereDispatch
I am writing this sitting in the capital of a desert state. In one of the worst natural disasters to ever hit Asia, the death toll is ticking over like a Delhi…
Sunday sentimentsDispatch
One of the most highly paid columnists in this country calls his column Sunday Sentiments. It's a nice title. It doesn't mean too much ... it lets the author get…
The end of the yearDispatch
Having just finished the year-ender issue of the newspaper I work for, I have to admit this year hasn't been too bad. For one, I think I have finally got used to…
Tolerance vs ReligionDispatch
Just found this at kuro5hin ... The vague feeling I've always had that religion and tolerance don't go hand-in-hand just got translated into a statistic. When Marx…
The end of an eraDispatch
Early 1999, hunched over a computer in an office in Vasant Kunj, I was trying to figure out how to design a website. I chanced upon a website . It was a site run by…
Hell, An email from a friendDispatch
THERMODYNAMICS OF HELL The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term exam. The answer by one student was so 'profound'…
GeniusDispatch
Drip drip, drip drip ... It seems to me that a lot of people nowadays equate life with a leaky faucet. Time, they believe, is running out. And no matter how hard…
The Big Lab Experiment - Was our universe created by design? By Jim HoltDispatch
You might take this all as a joke,' he said, 'but perhaps it is not entirely absurd. It may be the explanation for why the world we live in is so weird. On the…
Meandering through hinduism and scienceDispatch
We are taught from a very early age to believe that everything is made up of something. Then we learn that it is possible to discover the basic building blocks.…
Women ...Dispatch
makes interesting readin. It may be interesting to check on how the world has changed since the time the article talks about .. and has it changed for the better or…
The first postDispatch
Thought may be the most underrated human activity. True, independent thought suffers from hurdles that I have only begun to understand and become aware of. But when…