Facts about my neighborhood, #4

The 4.1 Milpitas earthquake that hit here on Thursday was a small affair — like all quakes, when it first starts you kind of freeze in place and wait to see what happens next. How big will it get? Is there a huge  [more...]

Many people make the argument that the information age industries don’t actually produce any real, tangible… things. That may well be true, but all those virtual bits of information still take up space on  [more...]

Over the years, I’ve used the phrase “it’s a small world” many times in this blog. But the previous catalog of coincidences is nothing in comparison with today’s occurrence. It belongs in  [more...]