I finally dragged myself to the multiplex this weekend to see the Da Vinci Code. After seeing the film, I left the theater fairly upset. Don’t get me wrong - I liked the film plenty. In fact, I thought that director Ron Howard had done a terrific job of translating the novel into a cinematic [...]

I no longer have a ‘land line’. Instead I use my cell phone and internet-based telephone service, via my cable broadband connection. The upshot: by virtue of being VoIP, my calls are not subject to NSA wiretapping.

Here I sit, inside my favorite cafe on Fillmore Street (the Grove), in an accidentally selected table but strategically chosen seat, watching my fellow cafeterians parade into and out of the space.
The cafe, I should note, is not your ordinary cafe but a rustic and charming one with a full kitchen and menu of bon [...]

WashingtonPost.com, one of the better online ‘mainstream media’ sites, has announced their headfirst dive into the the new media world of the interactive community by allowing reader comments on all of their articles. This is a move I consider both brave and a no-brainer.
On the one hand, their status as the nation’s de facto #2 [...]

Ok, so I did it. Got me a Mac. I am really excited to start using it (though I am still writing this on my Dell). My project today is to install Boot Camp on the mac and then install my important apps (Dreamweaver, Photoshop, etc) onto the Windows portion of my Mac, thereby freeing [...]

The first ever Yearly Kos convention for progressive political bloggers and activists has been a resounding success, drawings thousands of attendees, as well as widespread media coverage in publications from the New York Times to the Chronicle. The coverage is also a consequence of the presence of Democratic party heavy hitters, including the godfather of [...]