Archive for October 2007

I’ve been watching a show called High Stakes Poker a lot recently. It’s unique among televised poker in that it shows a cash game instead of a tournament, and you get to see some very good players competing with each other for lots of their own money. The show doesn’t focus too much on the [...]

I just read one of the most interesting articles I’ve ever come across. It’s all about Alex Roy’s multiple attempts to break the 25-year-old Cannonball Run record. For those of you who don’t know what that is, the Cannonball Run was an illegal cross-country race in the 70’s; you had to get from New York [...]

Up until now, I’ve been managing spam comments coming into my blog manually. When someone tries to post a comment, they have to get it approved. Once I’ve approved one comment from an IP address, new ones from that address get approved automatically. I get a mail for each new comment that’s waiting for approval, [...]

After a summer of just barely keeping my coffee addiction going, I’m now heading full-steam into the winter caffeine binge. The air is getting cooler, and the rain is starting to drizzle down. And every time I see how gray the sky is these days, I immediately get some kind of pavlovian craving for espresso. [...]