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Posted on June 28, 2014April 21, 2018

Edge of Tomorrow

I've recently seen the movie Edge of Tomorrow. All in all, it was a pretty good movie (and dare I say it, an awesome one).

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Posted on March 24, 2014

"Revelations" costing tech companies?

The New York Times has an article with the following headline: "Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies".

While I don't have issue with the article itself, I'm going to have to disagree with the headline. Ultimately, it's not the revelations themselves that are the problem, it's the NSA's actions that have been costing U.S. tech companies ...

Posted on February 9, 2014February 9, 2014

Scientists say ...

One of my pet peeves with certain stories I see in mainstream news outlets are those which say "scientists say ..." or "scientists discover ..." in the headline or in the story itself.

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Posted on January 24, 2014January 24, 2014

Every year is the coldest

It's been really cold this week in the US northeast, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it's only cold relative to recent years, and that this chilliness was normal for winter around here decades ago. Despite that, it still feels like it was the coldest week in my life, undoubtedly because I don't really remember how cold it was on colder days!

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Posted on January 19, 2014January 19, 2014

Blog revamp

It's been over two years since I wrote a post on the blog. I've been keeping the software up to date, but did little else during that time. With the new year, though, I've decided to revamp the blog with a new theme.

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