I have been reading an excellent work by communication theorist and political economist Vincent Mosco. The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace examines the myths we have been spinning around the rise of the Internet: that it will change politics and social interaction, and generally bring us into a new enlightened age.

The first part […]

I stumbled across the nice JSTOR upgrade today. Looks much better than their older version, very easy on the eyes.

So at my house I have two computers. One is my laptop, the other an old desktop without a monitor which I use as a simple server. I download Bittorrents on it, and it serves up video and music over Samba to mine and Xuan-Yen’s laptop.

Yet, what if I am in the wild […]

Sometimes you don’t realize what love is until it is gone.  It takes a parting and a little bit of heartbreak to make you realize that your life is empty, and almost meaningless, alone.  You can’t get work done, you feel disconnected and purposeless.Yesterday I came home to find my ibook…. dead.  Well, almost, it […]