Softwares, teyl

A good while ago, I wrote a blog post called Softwares, where I laid out my basic workflows for a lot of different applications and why I liked them. I figured I'd revisit that topic now, more than three years later.

Sadly, looking over that post, it seems like very …

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In the spring of 2004, Jan Schakowsky, a Democratic congresswoman from Evanston, Illinois, told me a funny story about startling President Bush during a visit to the White House. She was wearing a big, blue "OBAMA" button. This was in the early days of Barack Obama's …

Missing

When George W. Bush took office in January 2001, he aimed to make a clean break from all things Clinton. The acrimony, much of it stemming from the 2000 Florida recount and the Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore, apparently went both ways. Reports of office …

Stephen Fry, it is well to hear

I won't lie; for all his delightful erudition it has sometimes been a slight pain for me that Stephen Fry has tended to evince a somewhat snobbish attitude towards language. The sword of diction cuts both ways, of course; the schoolboy pleasure with which he (and I as …