technology Move fast with broken things Today I got an instagram comment on a very old photo, so I popped over to see it was spam and deleted it. But then I noticed I linked to my cousin by name in the photo, and he died unexpectedly a few years ago, so I went to his
this is broken An American healthcare story Most people in the world know healthcare in the USA is bonkers and often doctors won't treat you unless you can prove you have the insurance to cover it. But what non-americans might not know is the lengths that medical places go to extract profit from you at
this is broken Adobe's serial insanity I've been using Adobe products for nearly 20 years now, and in the past, I would have my employers dutifully buy me copies of Photoshop at every upgrade cycle. Now that I've been on my own for a few years, last year I finally outgrew an
technology Facebook's Privacy Whiteboard Last year, when Facebook started going lax on their default privacy settings (in opposition to how they'd always defaulted settings) I had this idea. It's obvious why Facebook would push their userbase in that direction, because it would mean more public outfacing pages to sell internal
gaming Playstation 3: complete failure for casual gaming The other day this thought popped into my head and since several people asked, I wanted to expound on my original point. First off, let me just say I'm a casual gamer -- for the past seven years I've usually owned one console game system and
copyright Misadventures in Copyright Last year I moved into a new house with a big backyard, but the yard faces directly south, so it bakes in the summertime. I decided to find a local architect to help build a small shade patio off the back, and in the process I learned a lot about
