Finally, after months of nervous anticipation, you can finally read my About page. I'm still in the process of migrating all pages over to the new look, but you can get an early glimpse here.

Some random musings about the Computer Science scene, which I am (sometimes grudgingly) a part of:

-Why does anyone find those shirts that say C:\DOS C:\DOS\RUN RUN\DOS\RUN even remotely amusing?

-You know you have reached complete toolness if you own a piece of apparel, a mousepad, or a coffee mug featuring Tux the Linux Penguin eating, urinating on, or defecating on Bill Gates.

-How does AOL, despite the fact that it is the most expensive, the slowest rates, the most annoying artwork, and a more-annoying-to-use version of their own AIM client, still have millions and millions of customers, all of whom TyPe LiKe ThIs?

-How did Windows 98 ever get released? It took 3+ years to render itself unusable on my computer, but it only took 2 years to bluescreen my girlfriend's machine to death.

-Why does every Cnn.com article about hacking, cybercrime, piracy, mp3s, the internet, or pornography feature one from a group of about seven images that are simply computer-related symbols such as binary digits, wires, or monitors blended together in photoshop to form one incoherent mess?

-Why did computer users in movies originally go from the hyper-geeky Dennis-Nedry-in-Jurassic-Park look to the ultra-hip John-Travolta-in-Swordfish look? The average real-life user is neither of these. For that matter, why do movies portray computer hacking as some sort of GUI-based Pacman-like game featuring either flying cubes or random scrolling binary digits?