Busybody’s heaven

Sit­ting in the only decent coffee shop in Sil­icon Valley makes for inter­est­ing ear-candy. Just about every day there’s another Google-staffer, Apple-staffer, Yahoo-staffer or start-up hope­ful talk­ing with friends about some issue they’re having or some...
Observations and links

Observations and links

We live near an ele­ment­ary school. Every morn­ing I can hear a young child recit­ing the pledge of alle­gi­ance to Amer­ica. It’s odd. It’s everything I dis­liked when I was at school about nation­al­ism at school. It’s everything...

It is forbidden to forbid

In a dis­cus­sion about road signs here, Doug and I agreed that the major dif­fer­ence between Aus­tralia and Amer­ica is that in Aus­tralia, everything is for­bid­den unless expressly per­mit­ted while in Amer­ica, everything is per­mit­ted unless expressly...