Entries from November 2008

November 23, 2008

Ugly Ubiquity

If you’re looking for a list of Ubiquity skins that you can install, check this out.
Every time I look at a screenshot of Ubiquity on the web, I flinch. UBIQUITY IS UGLY (just like that all caps text). Or rather, Ubiquity was ugly. I just finished up the basic infrastructure to enable skinning for Ubiquity. [...]

November 12, 2008

Devo is Dead

Devo died silently, no coughing, no bleeding. No one knew of its demise. It was lying face down on a couch somewhere for a very long time. But you didn’t bother to look as its balls sagged and its face became heavily lined. Only yesterday, I turned it around and saw its bloated mouth. You [...]

November 5, 2008

Goodbye Apathy

I’m totally elated that Obama won today. Mostly because he pronounces Pakistan as Pock-i-stahn but also because I never truly believed that politics could be so bottom-up.
I’ve never lived in a true democracy and never witnessed one in action. Too young for the 2000 elections and too ignorant for 2004. The country where I was [...]