Archive for December, 2007

Farewell, Netscape
(Now don’t slam the door on your way out!)

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

“Have you tried Netscape yet?”

“Netscape?”

“Go and download it right now!”

It was the fall of 1994, I was in the process of building my first Web site (Asia Inc Online), and a colleague tipped me off to a hot new browser that I just had to see. The next day, I fired up my copy of [...]

Chinese food on Christmas

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Yes, I’m doing it again this year. I may not have as much style as Brandon, but I can guarantee that the Chinese food I eat will be much better than what he and his mishpacha are scarfing.

Keeping secrets

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Hats off to Nick Ciarelli of ThinkSecret for choosing to go out of business, rather than reveal his sources to Apple. While a better outcome clearly would have been for Nick to continue publishing and keep his sources confidential, his settlement with Apple shows that there are at least some citizen journalists out there [...]