Whoa…

I‑80 col­lapses after tanker crash I was just on this stretch of road yes­ter­day, driv­ing back from Alameda (where we had Anzac day lunch at a New Zea­l­and res­taur­ant with mizchalmers) to San Fran­cisco to buy lovely Moroc­can fur­niture from La Kasbah. Just...

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...