Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
While I have been muddling through taxes, Leonard (who has already done his taxes) wrote and put up his side of the DC story, which to him was mostly a "PyCon Adventure".
Michael points out that it's not that doing taxes is time-consuming, it's that doing them optimally is time-consuming. After all, in many cases you could just do the EZ or the A (abbreviated) form and …
Trying to do my taxes. I'm relatively low-income, so I should be able to use the EZ (easy, simple, "I'm poor") forms instead of the scarier full-size forms. I want to go to the Mango …
I'm now looking for a job somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area where I could write or edit, or possibly sell things to people and institutions that could possibly need them. Massive rocking of …
"Have any of you been to Japan? I mean, I guess I'd know if you had, but still." "I've never been there, but I know things about it." "Anyway, do you know anything about their …
I haven't been remembering my dreams lately, except for a vague theme of "going back to school" (high school and college, that is). On the other hand, Joe has been having pretty darn fascinating ones.
Y'all who enjoy really sarcastic foulmouthed weblogs will like stereolabrat. Sample whining: if Philip Morris has such a huge army of lobbyists, how did the New York City bar smoking prohibition get passed? Also, Salon …
Apples. Plums. Dried sour cherries. Roasted almonds. Linguini and marinara sauce with olive oil and mockmeatballs. Whole wheat tortillas. Hummus. Soy ice cream pies. Orange juice. Water.
I've been reading G.K. Chesterton; his Father Brown stories tickle my fondness for high-concept mysteries, and his style is great, but the preaching gets on my nerves. Here's a modern mystery tale of weblogs, secret …
I had worried about Nate Thayer of Slate and Salam Pax of "Where is Raed?". Well, I now hear that Iraqis no longer have internet access, but at least Thayer got out okay.