I was at a talk for the World Policy Institute and he was one of the featured speakers in a kickoff of the Global Information Society Project. I knew the man was a genius but he simply blew me away. His assessment of what's broken in our government's efforts to bring technology to bear in the war on terra was rather insightful for many reasons. (Not least of which was that many of his points mir

So, she gets all sorts of cold feet because she thinks I'm pushing her to a decision now. I'm so far from that, it's not funny. I know, better than she does probably, that anything we were to start off anywhere inside of probably the next six months to a year would be an absolute disaster.

I'm in love. madly, stupidly, head-over-heels in love. i know it. she knows it. We both know it and neither of us can do anything about it because neither of us is ready for a serious relationship with anybody right now, especially each other.

Just venting here because, well, she reads my blog and I don't want to vent all that shit there.

I was talking to a friend of mine on Sunday and we walked by a teenage girl who was bumming because, and these are her exact words... "I'm so upset that I don't have a crush on anyone right now". My friend and I then got into talking about her latest crush and how she was worried that he might be playing her. When I told her just to come clean, she was afraid it might push him away if he genuinely was interested. How fucked up is that?

It's pretty damn rare that I'm moved to break out the laptop and add coments to the old blog while I'm on the subway, but this needs to be recorded and ranted upon... Since when was leetspeak (also known as Trospek, for you Mythers) fairgame for mainstream marketing? I mean, really? It's bad enough when the proficient practitioners of