Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Failure to lunch

Monday, October 27th, 2008

At 25 years old, I have had my fair share of failures. In retrospect, I think I have failed more than I care to remember. Recently, I have had two colossal debacles that made me waste a few good night's sleep, money and, most importantly, time. Strangely, unlike other fiascos ...

I was down, but now I’m up

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

EM was unreachable during most of the day today. The culprit seems to be a deviant configuration file in the web server, as expressed in this email from Scott (a DreamHost customer representative): Elvis, Sorry for the trouble. There was a misconfiguration with the web server. Everything looks to be up and running ...

Hiatus and good reading

Monday, August 25th, 2008

The blogging interlude will probably continue for a few more days. My writing time has become nonexistent since I traveled back to Dominican Republic a week ago. In the interim, here's a list containing a few articles I think are worthwhile (I'm not writing as much, but I'm still reading voraciously ...

Is Google Making Us Stupid? Carr seems to think so

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Nicholas Carr's article, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, is a far-reaching piece of reading regardless of your field of study or work: Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind ...

Women in IT: Really?! Where?

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Women's absence in information technology (IT) has always been the norm rather than the exception. The exact reason behind this situation is still eluding many of us: And teenage girls are less interested in computer science than they are in other scientific fields. Only 12% of the finalists in the 2005 ...