Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2007

19 Apr 2007, 8:31 a.m.

Search Requests

I get some fascinating search requests from people who arrive at Menstruation Products: A Compare-And-Contrast. No, it's not supposed to hurt to insert or remove a tampon. No, you shouldn't put in more than one …

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17 Apr 2007, 10:41 a.m.

Virginia Tech

My thoughts are with the victims and their families and friends. Not that that's a deliberate decision -- I can't help it. I couldn't help it all yesterday. I hope to God the body count …

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17 Apr 2007, 10:34 a.m.

Riddle Me This

I work in a software firm. I am the only person there, except the office manager, who is not a born-and-bred computer geek. They play video games all the time. Yet I'm the only one …

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15 Apr 2007, 23:15 p.m.

This Is Ridiculous

I am now one connection away from Teresa and Patrick Nielsen Hayden via something like four different acquaintances and friends. This includes someone I've worked with, someone who's had me sleep at her house as …

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15 Apr 2007, 9:27 a.m.

MC Masala(s) on O'Neill, Past, and Atrocity

A short version and a longer version, which makes more sense, of my column this week. April 19, 1995, was the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. I was alive for that one. I was …

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15 Apr 2007, 9:03 a.m.

Whew

Yesterday was my last all-day Saturday class of the semester. Now, just a terrible three-week push to the final classes/presentations/papers and I'll have a summer "off" (only working full-time). John and Susie, I'm sorry I …

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13 Apr 2007, 22:29 p.m.

Pondering : Building :: Talkering : Growing

Some insights into my thought/conversation styles, at work and with friends, in response to a blog post by my colleague Eric. Truth, vulnerability, certainty, nitpicking, and Wikifriends come up.

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13 Apr 2007, 16:08 p.m.

Next Up: A. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Deck

We need more videos of Powerpoint Karaoke. I watched one performance to get a taste of it. And I realized what I might have guessed all along: I've seen performances just as bad (and we …

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13 Apr 2007, 8:11 a.m.

Representative Excerpts

To repeat, I am no way suggesting that a Mac Tablet would not be completely awesome. I would buy at least five, possibly eight, so I could use a different one each day of the …

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13 Apr 2007, 7:28 a.m.

Excerpt's Incredibly Nostalgia-Inducing, Too

I know it's Flash, but the site for Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris has an okay conceit with very good implementation. The video reminds me more of Salon than I could …

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