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More reasons to be sad about America
06/25/08
The New York State legislature usually spends its time either on vacation or passing obnoxious laws, like ones requiring me to pay taxes on stuff I buy over the Internet even if the vendor isn't based in New York. My Internet purchases just became 8.25% more expensive. Good job, state legisla -
Surprise: Cornell doesn't know how to run a mail server
06/17/08
Last Sunday morning, there was supposed to be a "planned outage" of Cornell's electronic mail service for a few hours. Today, we're forty-eight hours into the "unplanned outage" that followed, and I have no mail, which makes me really frustrated, because I made the mis -
"Macs are Better": an unbiased review
06/11/08
I was bored the other day, so I decided to solve one of the greatest mysteries of our times: why do so many people think that Macs are "just better," when in fact OS X and the hardware upon which it runs are increasingly identical to other platforms, and when Macs with few exceptions run t -
Life
06/03/08
Last week concluded my undergraduate experience. Appropriately, graduation was steeped in a lot of pretension. David Skorton's commencement speech centered around demonstrating how well Cornell's president can pronounce the word "university," and several kids talked for a long
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