Former Clinton White House adviser and prominent blogger, Brad DeLong says: “We have to ask ourselves: Do we want to revive our economy, or do we want to punish the bankers?” But critics of the Geithner plan are not saying he’s being too soft on the bankers because they want to see blood. They are [...]
When I was about eight years old I used to play with the mainframe computer at my dad's engineering school. I still remember playing Star Trek. Then, as I went through school, it seemed computer technology jumped ahead from year to year, from the TRS-80s in 5th grade, to the Apple IIs in middle school, [...]
Mother Jones reports that the average American household spends about $500 per year on lottery tickets – more than on movies, books, and music combined. So my idea to save newspapers is to print them on lottery tickets! Or, more precisely, make each page of the newspaper a lottery ticket by printing a number on [...]
When I look up a word I need for a lecture on political-economy or colonial theory, I know I will not find the word I need in my dictionary. And I have the largest Chinese-English dictionary I could buy: the ABC dictionary included in Wenlin. Even if I do find a phrase, I can be [...]
I want to use Zotero 1.5b, but it seems that Firefox 3.0 has problems with large databases, and I have over 4000 references. So I’m going to try upgrading to Firefox 3.1b just to see if things work. In preparation I’m backing up my extensions. For future reference here’s what I have installed.