2 Years Later, Grim Photos From the BP Disaster

There are a lot of very strange differences between Washington, DC weather and San Jose, California weather — as one would expect. I’m still counting them, from San Jose’s total lack of thunderstorms  [more...]

Yesterday I was elated to see that the leaves are starting to appear on my backyard birch trees; and little buds are appearing on the unidentified tree that looks like a weeping willow. Soon I’ll have little  [more...]

Jef Raskin, who is generally credited as the creator of the Macintosh computer, died yesterday. He was 61. Much of his work has been on the creation of “humane interfaces,” which points out a major  [more...]