Category: Commentary

My problem with gmail and buzz – they broke RTM

I love gmail and buzz just as much as the next guy (or probably even more so), but the frequent updates to gmail’s code are breaking third party plugins that many people have come to rely on.

Wednesday February 17th, 2010 in Commentary, Productivity, Technology | View Comments

Stuck in Android Limbo

I spent over two years using a fat clamshell phone with glittery rainbow and penguin stickers on it.  This would not be surprising if I was a 14 year old girl.  But I was that girl’s older brother. Aside from the stickers and clunky interface, the phone only had space for approximately 5 text messages [...]

Sunday January 24th, 2010 in Commentary, Technology | View Comments

The Future of Education

The most depressing class I ever took was freshman intro chemistry.  Granted, it was advanced intro chemistry (oxymoronic, but that’s how the course identifications work at MIT; extra numbers = harder, extra letters = easier).  So this was 5.112 (as opposed to the standard introductory 5.111).  So why was it so depressing?  I had learned [...]

Friday January 8th, 2010 in Commentary, Productivity, Society, Technology | View Comments

The Scientific Journal of Failure

Science is riddled with failure Really, it’s all over the place.  It’s built right into the scientific method.  You make a hypothesis, with a firm understanding that anything could happen to disprove your faulty notions.  Sometimes it works and you see what you expected, and sometimes it doesn’t.  And some of the most interesting discoveries [...]

Friday July 31st, 2009 in Commentary, Science | View Comments