Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

23 Nov 2001, 15:39 p.m.

Goodness, Slate gets slower and slower with every redesign. A woman…

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2001 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

Goodness, Slate gets slower and slower with every redesign.

A woman outside a supermarket (ostensibly collecting money for charity) asked me what language(s) I speak, probably to derive my ethnic origin. "English and Russian" threw her off and I had to explain that I am not actually Russian. Never did get around to telling her I'm Indian.