Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2003

09 Sep 2003, 19:52 p.m.

Bam! "Enterprise" doesn't have a gimmick. It has a premise,…

Bam! "Enterprise" doesn't have a gimmick. It has a premise, an interesting question to answer: How did humanity go from the bottom to the top of the galactic totem pole?....isolated low points can't mar this …

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09 Sep 2003, 18:32 p.m.

Zippy Would Be Proud

The new head of tech is concentrating on the important things.

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09 Sep 2003, 16:52 p.m.

Author

I'm getting published in Salon. Later tonight my State-of-the-Trek piece on Star Trek Enterprise will go up in the Arts and Entertainment section. I saw it in pre-publication form, panicked and thought it was awful, …

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08 Sep 2003, 22:27 p.m.

Trying to write. Time will tell whether weblogging has…

Trying to write. Time will tell whether weblogging has strengthened or weakened my essaying skills.

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06 Sep 2003, 13:35 p.m.

Angel Is Here!

Yay! My friend Angel is here and we're spending the weekend together. She got to meet many of my friends last night at a small party. I was urged to save for posterity (here) the …

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05 Sep 2003, 16:22 p.m.

Idea: Recipe Party. (Discovered while idly googling "party recipe.")…

Idea: Recipe Party. (Discovered while idly googling "party recipe.") Obvious implementation: Everyone brings several copies of a favorite recipe, and if possible the finished product. Amusing implementation: you must pretend to be a recipe for …

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04 Sep 2003, 17:15 p.m.

AdWords Tells All

"Organize" means The Container Store more than it does "Joe Hill." "Organise" doesn't mean anything at all.

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04 Sep 2003, 9:16 a.m.

Culture Gun

High culture, low culture, bacterial cultures, we've got 'em all! Lynn Harris writes about vulvodynia, women's genital pain, in Salon (free day pass or subscription required): "...16 percent of women will experience chronic vulvar pain, …

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03 Sep 2003, 16:04 p.m.

I Am James Van Hise

As a youth I devoured books about Star Trek. The local library held several reference works about Trek by one James Van Hise, the referent of this title. My mom always knew what gifts to …

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31 Aug 2003, 17:51 p.m.

A Process Entry That Is Not Witty

Finally, a real weblog page instead of one I hand-edit from a Google cache! The technical story: a few weeks ago, the Open Computing Facility upgraded its install of Apache and prohibited the use of …

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