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I’ve just had the displeasure of obtaining a Lenovo SL500 from my company. Although this machine is branded with the Thinkpad logo it is not actually a Thinkpad. This laptop actually has “Ideapad” firmware in it. Way to go Lenovo, shooting yourself in the foot by tarnishing the Thinkpad brand with this PoS. It shipped [...]

Sorry couldn’t help but post something else about the FDA. Why are they so poor? Why isn’t the FDA structured in a way that scales with the size of the economy? Why are our tax dollars spent on trying to approve all the drugs that big pharma wants to sell? Shouldn’t the company that wants [...]

Just finished reading this article at Salon and came away wondering if the GOP could become any more irrelevant. Well if they really do plan on putting Sarah Palin up for 2012 then they just might be able put the last nail in their own coffin. What the GOP should be doing is looking towards [...]

Last weekend I attended the Beijing Perl Workshop. It was actually my first time attending such a workshop and my first time giving a speech at one. Unfortunately I felt my speech train wrecked (some technical problems with my laptop followed by my own stuttering and incoherence). Next time I’ll do better, I promise! Overall [...]

Who knows what’s in that pill you’ve just scarffed down, or what was in your breakfast for that matter. Gardiner Harris takes a look at the current state of the FDA and how it shapes up against today’s brave new world of Globalization. It’s nothing short of ominous to think about the fact that we [...]

It’s such an interesting task, giving somebody a name that they will have for their entire life. I’ve always been rather disappointed about my incredibly common name, “Chris”, so I wanted to give my son a name that wasn’t as ubiquitous. I also didn’t want to give him some crazy name that might stigmatize him. [...]

Thank you for gracefully accepting defeat in the 2008 Presidential Election.  Your concession speech, unlike your campaign, was actually respectable. I really do hope that you will work with President Obama to recover our nation from the devastation your party has wrought since the year 2000. President Obama! I congratulate you on your victory in [...]

It was my wife’s birthday the other day. As you can see she is very pregnant, impregnated by yours truly. She’ll give birth to our son at the end of December. I still haven’t thought of a name…

I’ll be attending the Beijing Perl Workshop being held on November 8th. Actually, I’ll be giving a short (~10 minute) speech there, the topic being Perl, Outsourcing and China. I’m looking forward to it for a number of reasons: 1. All speakers get a free O’Reilly book 2. Everyone gets a shirt 3. I might [...]