An NYT article on why the tremendous civil liberty invasion by the NSA does us no good at all. Such a stupid wide-net ploy and for basically zero gain. The only things it facilitates are …

Some Fog Creekers made a fast-paced movie (2 minutes, 15 seconds) to demo some new features in FogBugz 5.0, which launches today.

Babak told me a knock-knock joke the other day. It really only works if you do it in a non-US accent. Knock, knock. Who's there? George. George who? George W. Bush! Variant: Knock, knock. Who's …

Super News! amuses me greatly. I laughed out loud at the end of "Wacky Saddam Trial."

A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Books is looking for a buyer, and Cody's on Telegraph, where I worked for almost a year, is closing. There'll still be the Fourth Street and San Francisco locations, but …

I didn't realize until today that Babelfish translates English to and from two kinds of Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese, Russian, and Spanish, at least well enough to decipher an out-of-office …

Leonard is the oldest child of an oldest child. I just realized that. Man, I miss her.

"Orignally wanted to be a lawyer, but he reached a question on an application form that said 'Why do you want to be a lawyer?' He couldn't think of anything."

I'm wearing my wedding pants today. They are the only pair of white pants I own. I have to do laundry. Overseas Indian customer service representatives are the only ones who can pronounce my last …

I can't get this poignant safer-sex ad out of my head.