Daily Archives: August 7, 2009

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Thus begins Joan Didion’s “The White Album”, a masterpiece of modern American prose that has been rattling around in my head for a while thanks to an afternoon revisit. It’s a memoir … Continue reading →

Steve Jobs once said that the problem with Microsoft was that they had no taste. That was as true then (many years ago) as it is now. It is also true that Microsoft has no proofreading department. They screw up … Continue reading →