Mindbat

This weekend, a friend of my wife’s was gushing about how her church had just started a program to help the poor in Uganda: they take unwanted clothes from Ugandans, ship them over to the US so her church-members can sew them back together using Christian-themed patches, sell the clothes to people in the US, [...]

Everybody’s got ‘em. Here’s mine: What Will Change Radically: Ebooks. In 2009 they really started taking off. With the release of Apple’s Tablet, the Nook finally appearing in stores, and Borders launching their own reader/ebook service, the world of publishing will finally start lurching into the 21st century. The OS Wars. With the release of [...]

So, Obama won the Presidential race, making me proud to be a citizen of the USA and hopeful that we can turn things around here. But Proposition 8, the hateful law banning gay marriage and writing bigotry into the California state constitution, looks like it will pass.

Just got back from the voting booth. It’s my first time to vote since the dark days of ’02, and my first time to vote in California. And yes, it felt good. If you haven’t already, head down to your local polling place and vote! Even if you’re not registered, get yourself put on a [...]

In reading through an old copy of the Economist yesterday, I was struck by the magazine’s seeming schizophrenia. I could be reading an article reasonably discussing how governments could (and should) act to encourage businesses to shift to greener technologies in order to combat climate change, then turn the page to find phrases like “a [...]