Speechless in Seattle

If you're not already there, my new blog is at http://www.rohit.ca.

Blogger, you've been good to me. I got my start on blogging thanks to you, but I decided to move to Wordpress mainly so I could import all of my old blogs into one. And because you haven't updated your templates in years, and I was tired of trying to make them look like Wordpress.

:)

See you on the other blog.

At the beginning of 2007 I set out to read one book every week this year. Unless I start plowing through comic books or quit my day job, my current book count of 10 puts me on pace to have averaged a book a month.

:(

Well, regardless of how many I finish, the good news is that I got to read some great books. And of all contemporary books I've read so far, Everything is Miscellaneous has definitely been a highlight.

Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing sums it up really well:

Weinberger's thesis is this: historically, we've divided the world into categories, topics, and hierarchies because physical objects need to be in one place or another, they can't be in all the places they might belong. Computers and the Internet turn this on its head: because a computer can "put things" in as many categories as they need to be in, because individuals can classify knowledge, tasks, and objects idiosyncratically, the hierarchy is revealed for what it always was, a convenient expedient masquerading as the True Shape of the Universe.

(Link to full review)

Author David Weinberger is a terrific writer and also a great presenter. I got to hear him speak when he visited Microsoft in May. I'll definitely be checking out his other books.

If you're reading this blog, then I highly recommend this book.

Was in Charlotte this past weekend, hanging out with Sis and her fam. Man are my nieces getting big.

Here's some fun pics from the trip:

 

Stretching on the carpet

Determined thumb-sucking

Playing Prince Eric for Niku

This Tuesday, I'll be getting a cast on my wrist with these properties:

• Fiberglass short arm style (left hand)
  
• Custom orthopedic build
• Gore-Tex liner

Which, as it turns out, describes the cast that Stephen Colbert just had removed for his broken wrist. Apparently he was a bit more emotional about his injury than me. Here's a clip:

And just when I was about to start blogging again..

An unfortunate collision at first base has slowed me down. The bad news is it broke. The good news is I'm learning how to one-hand touch-type, and that the nurse gave me a sticker.

More soon :)

From BoingBoing:
Max Blumethal went to the College Republican National Convention Tour and discovered that these well-groomed young men and women strongly support the war in Iraq. But when Blumenthal asked them why they weren't fighting in Iraq, the students offered creative and entertaining excuses.

Just watched this video, and it's wonderful. I highly recommend taking a look.

(via Lone Primate)