An inadequate excerpt from Sarah Brown of Cringe, on hopes laid bare in a teenager's diary: You want someone you like to come into your room and ask you if you've read all those books …

Well, this will get a bit crowded. Welcome to the social! This week's column is about Kannada, "Indian," and other languages. Did you know that my sister's brushing up her Hindi? Right now she can …

This week's column, on the funny spam. I've added books to my wish list based on interesting sentences that spammers stole and pasted in to fool spam filters. I've received spam that includes passages from …

Saturday, June 16th: A friend of mine is in a play in Washington, DC. An interesting metal band plays a park in Astoria. And Slightly Known People leads several area sketch comedy groups in covering …

Tonight I'll probably go to the New York Tech Meetup, in hope of interesting demos and good questions. I've been to several of them in the past 16 months, and attendance has stabilized at 300-500. …

A May 20th column on coffee rituals (citing Neal Stephenson) and a nice little column from yesterday, on my sister's graduation, dancing, food, and an old album. It could be that the main reason I …

A commercial for "Shrek 3" contains music from OK Go's "Here It Goes Again." I will be disappointed if no one in this film dances on a treadmill.

Yes, you write a customized cover letter for each job application.

Copied and mildly edited from my comment yesterday on the Joel On Software discussion board. The original poster, two years out of college, had asked whether to keep his college internships on his resume - …

MC Masala on Batman! Today's comic books are like big, old cities where villains and bystanders vanish down alleys and new visitors need guides. I wonder what it was like when New York was just …